Dr. Patricia Ayoung-Chee received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She attended New York University School of Medicine and stayed on to complete her residency training in General Surgery in 2011. She then trained at the University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, completing a Master's in Public Health in 2012 and a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care in 2013. She joined the faculty at NYU School of Medicine in 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. In 2017, she became the Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at NYU Langone - Brooklyn Hospital and Associated Trauma Medical Director in 2018. While at NYU, she served at the site lead for multicenter trials and was one of the clinical surgical leads for the Value-Based Medicine Committee. She was recruited to Morehouse School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital in 2020.