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Dr. Phillips currently serves as chief of the department of plastic surgery and senior associate dean for academic affairs for the School of Medicine at the University of Texas in Galveston , following several other academic positions at the medical school since 1991. She also presently serves on the consulting medical staff/active scientific staff at the Shriners Burns Institute in Galveston , Texas . Her earlier experience includes positions at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit , Michigan , director of the Burn Center, Detroit Receiving Hospital , and several attending staff positions. Dr. Phillips also served as an instructor in the department of surgery at Northwestern University . She has received grant support for over 60 medical studies related to chronic wounds. Dr. Phillips' professional career includes serving on over one hundred committees for a variety of medical associations, including the American Association for Hand Surgery, the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, the American College of Surgeons and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. She is a member of over thirty scientific societies and a member of numerous editorial/review boards of medical journals. Dr. Phillips has published extensively in a variety of medical and scientific journals, in addition to presenting at hundreds of symposiums and conference throughout the United States and overseas. She earned a Medical Doctor degree from the University of Chicago . | 