Dr. Corrin Sullivan is fortifying the medical infrastructure in Las Vegas.
After obtaining her bachelor’s degree at UNLV, Sullivan pursed her doctorate and worked at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM), the largest regional medical education program in the country. “I realized the direct impact medical education has on a community’s welfare,” Sullivan said. “I decided that if I could be a part of a team focused on education and improving health and community outcomes, then that’s exactly what I wanted to do with my career.”
While at UWSOM, Sullivan began consulting for UNLV, and a few years later, she was offered a full-time position to help with the creation of the UNLV School of Medicine. Building a school from the ground up is no simple task, and now that the school has been built, Sullivan is instrumental in keeping it running.
“Much of my work is behind the scenes, but I oversee the day-to-day operations of the medical education program,” she said. “This involves discussions about continuous quality improvement, faculty involvement, facilities and room/lab coordination and utilization, curriculum development and adaption, as well as instruction, assessment, funding and accreditation.” With a strong mind for community engagement, Sullivan also works with health partners and medical practices throughout Southern Nevada to provide medical students with hands-on training and comprehensive patient care experiences.
“I am most proud of being a member of the foundational team put in place here in Las Vegas to create the UNLV School of Medicine. It has been such a tremendous honor to work with people incredibly gifted in expertise and instruction,” Sullivan said. “As a team, we all embarked on this formidable endeavor to serve the community, meet multiple stakeholders’ needs and create a program to train an arsenal of incredibly talented Nevada students to become Nevada physicians.”