Audra Clark

Audra Clark, MD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she specialises in burn surgery and surgical critical care. She completed medical school (2013), general-surgery residency (2020) and a surgical-critical-care fellowship (2021) at UT Southwestern and has remained on faculty, contributing to more than 80 peer-reviewed publications since 2016.

Education & Training:

• MD – UT Southwestern Medical School, 2013
• Post-doctoral research fellowship – UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2018
• Residency in General Surgery – UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2020
• Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care – UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2021

Research Focus: Dr Clark’s work spans burn resuscitation physiology, acute kidney injury after burn, operating-room efficiency, laser therapy for hypertrophic burn scar, and surgical resident education. She employs large prospective cohorts, national burn databases and translational models to investigate resuscitation endpoints, metabolic derangements and quality-improvement initiatives in burn and trauma patients.

Publication Trends: Her recent output (2022-2025) emphasises advanced imaging for burn-depth assessment (multispectral short-wave infrared), ethnicity-neutral resuscitation protocols, post-burn voice outcomes, and multi-national peri-operative risk studies, reflecting a blend of technological innovation and health-services research.

Grants & Clinical Programs: While specific grant numbers are not disclosed, she is the principal investigator on several quality-improvement projects within the Parkland Burn Center and participates in multicenter consortiums such as the Burn Model System and P.A.L.LI.A.T.E. geriatric-trauma collaboration.

Advising & Teams: Dr Clark mentors general-surgery residents and critical-care fellows in hypothesis-driven burn research and serves on thesis committees for trainees utilising the UT Southwestern surgical database repository.