Cynthia Talley, M.D., is a Professor with Tenure in the MUSC Department of Surgery as an Acute Care Surgeon and currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education and ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO) in the College of Medicine. She joined MUSC in 2018. She received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee in Memphis, followed by General Surgery Residency from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowship was completed at Vanderbilt University. She also completed a Surgical Education Research Fellowship from the Association for Surgical Education. Dr. Talley is board certified by the American Board of Surgeons in General Surgery and Surgery Critical Care.
Dr. Talley’s special interests are Trauma Surgery and Education. On a national level, Dr. Talley has contributed to several organizations: Board Member of Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), Chair of the Young Fellows Association (YFA) Governing Council for the American College of Surgeons (ACS), State Vice-Chair for the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the ACS, and President and Governor of the South Carolina Chapter of ACS.
