Kevin Pei is a passionate and experienced educator and robotic general surgeon. He trained at George Washington
University in Washington DC. While at Yale School of Medicine, he served as associate clerkship director for surgery
and director of surgery education in the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. He has served in multiple GME roles
including Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and Program Director of the American College of
Surgeons Accredited Fellowship in Education and Simulation at Houston Methodist – Weill Cornell Medicine. He is
currently Associate Chief Academic Officer and Program Director of the General Surgery Residency at Parkview
Health in Fort Wayne. He also serves as the ACS – AEI Director. He serves on the executive councils of the
Association for Surgical Education (ASE) and the Association for Women Surgeons (AWS). He has expertise in
faculty development in clinical teaching and received his Masters in Health Sciences in Medical Education from Yale
University. He is on the editorial boards of the American Board of Surgery SCORE, American Journal of Surgery,
Annals of Surgery Open, and Associate Editor at Global Surgical Education, the official journal of ASE. Among his
proudest accomplishments is being named the 2018 Philip J. Wolfson Outstanding Educator Award from the ASE
and induction into the prestigious ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.
Dr. Pei has published approximately 80 peer reviewed manuscripts. He has coauthored multiple chapters and
designed/taught multiple innovative curricula. His research interests include general surgery outcomes, reduction is
surgical variation and cost containment, and education related scholarship; he is working to open the dialogue about
bullying and civility at the workplace among surgeons.
