Marilee F. McBoyle-Wiesner, MD, FACS, MAMSE

Professional Background

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Dr. Marilee McBoyle is Professor Emerita of Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center-Wichita. As a surgeon educator for surgery residents and medical students, she developed the Surgery Residency Skills/Simulation Lab and led the process for the Lab's accreditation by the American College of Surgeons. For almost two decades, she supervised surgery resident outpatient clinics and taught over 1,200 medical students as well as overseeing the MS-4 Surgery Readiness Bootcamp. For ten years, she was the Medical Director of the Ascension Via Christi Wound and Hyperbaric Treatment Center. She initiated hyperbaric oxygen as a treatment modality for challenging wounds. She developed a Wound Curriculum for medical students which allowed students to do elective rotations in the Wound Center. She was a speaker at a National Wound Meeting in New Orleans and presented a poster in San Antonio.

Dr. McBoyle received her undergraduate degree from Emporia State University and medical degree from the University of Kansas followed by a five year General Surgery Residency at St. Francis Hospital-Wichita and a one year Burn and Trauma Fellowship at the University of New Mexico. The early years of her surgical practice focused on each of these areas and she was instrumental in establishing the ATLS courses at St. Francis Hospital. Later she developed a large breast practice.

During 2020, Dr. McBoyle received, while an Ascension Physician, the Wichita Business Journal Health Care Hero Award and in 2025 was the recipient of the Wichita Business Journal Lifetime Achievement Award. She was select by her peers to receive the 2020 Outpatient/Ambulatory Physician Leadership Award. She was a member of the School of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee from 2020-2022,

Dr. McBoyle led the way for the accreditation of the Skills Lab with the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as an Accredited Education Institute (AEI) focused level in 2019 and reaccreditation in 2024. Upon her retirement, the lab was named in her honor. She has served as guest faculty for ACS Simulation Course at the UNC-Chapel Hill and was a workshop presenter at the Chicago 2024 ACS Simulation Summit. In 2018, she was named an Associate Master Surgeon Educator by ACS and in 2023 was accepted for the highest honor by the ACS as Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators (MAMSE). Teaching awards include JAYHAWKER MD-2006, TEACHER of THE YEAR 2013 chosen by the graduating surgery residents, and Student Choice Award for Outstanding Surgery Attending in 2013, 2015, 2022, 2023, and 2025 as well as the student choice for Graduation Marshal in 2023. She was chosen as speaker for the 2014
Gold Humanism Award and the 2025 AOA Inductees Professorship Grand Rounds and Initiation.
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Research

Overview

RESEARCH OVERVIEW
During the time Dr. McBoyle's practice was devoted to breast care and surgery, her research and publications were related to that specialty. Now as a surgeon educator, research is directed to topics of surgical education. Most recently she co-authored a publication in the "Journal of Surgical Education" outlining factors related to medical students choosing a surgery residency. As the attending overseeing the MS-4 Surgery Residency Boot Camp, she has co-authored a survey, published in the Kansas Medical Journal (2021) on "Resident Prep Course Instills Confidence in Learners." and a follow up article regarding the Boot Camp on "Short and Long-Term Success". She presented a poster on Wound Care in San Antonio (2019) related to survey results educating medical students in chronic wounds. A lecture was given in 2021 in New Orleans on the
"Utilization of Medical Students in the Wound Center". In 2024 at the ACS Surgical Simulation Summit in Chicago, Dr. McBoyle was part of a Workshop joining members from the United Arab Emirates on "Gamification". Ongoing areas of research interest are especially related to Surgical Simulation and the benefit to the student and resident.