Noelle Saillant MD, FACS

Dr. Noelle Saillant is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She completed her surgical residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2013 after completing medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Saillant subsequently undertook a two-year trauma and critical care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She practices trauma and emergency general surgery and is an ICU intensivist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is a long time medical student educator.

In 2017, Dr. Saillant was named the site director of the HMS Surgical Core Clerkship at MGH. She has enjoyed working to overhaul and invigorate the surgical clinical student curriculum. She has also worked to pioneer a variety of educational outreach initiatives to improve the surgical learning environment. She has received the Principal Clinical Experience Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. She has twice (2017, 2018) received the highest faculty teaching award at MGH, the Bulfinch Award, for excellence in teaching across all clerkships. In addition, she has received multiple nominations for the McCabe Award, the highest education award for faculty in the clinical teaching years at HMS and won the prestigious honor in 2018. In 2020 she received the Excellence in Clinical Faculty Award at Harvard Class day. She is a current Jackson education fellow as part of the HMS Academy Medical Education Fellowship. She is active in the Association for Surgical Education and the Clerkship Directors Committee. She has contributed to and been an invited lecturer in the American College of Surgeons National Medical Student Curriculum. Her educational interests are the surgical learning environment, high stress training, teaching models, and evaluation of learning models. Dr. Saillant’ s clinical research interested include trauma induced coagulopathy, platelet function and hemostasis, rib fixation and severe chest injury.