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Mary Ann Hopkins, MD, MPhil, FACS is an American physician and general surgery specialist affiliated with New York University Langone Health. At NYU Langone Health she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Global Health Concentration Leader and Director for Global Health Initiatives. Dr. Hopkins was appointed as President Elect of the Association of Surgical Education. She is most proud of her work with MSF (Doctors without Boarders)with whom she traveled abroad on many missions.

Mary Ann received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University with high honors as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received a master's degree in history and philosophy of medicine from King's College, Cambridge University. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and took up a surgery residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical School. She went on to do a fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Institution for Minimally Invasive Surgery at White Plains, NY.

"In addition to her academic career, Dr. Hopkins has had a long-standing interest in public health and humanitarian outreach in the developing world, beginning in college when she worked in India and Somalia. She began working with Doctors Without Borders in 1996. She has volunteered as a surgeon in Sri Lanka, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad, providing much needed care in these conflict ridden areas. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the US section of Doctors Without Borders from 2007 to 2011. In addition, she was a member of the NYU Medical Center’s HEART team to Haiti in January 2010, which was rapidly deployed to provide emergency medical care to victims in the first weeks after the earthquake. She has been instrumental in developing the Global Health Concentration and the Global Health Selective programs, both part of the C21 initiatives"