Mara Schenker, MD is a clinician-scientist at Emory University. Her clinical practice is in orthopaedic trauma at Grady Memorial Hospital, and her interests include complex periarticular trauma, infection, nonunion, and malunion. Dr. Schenker performs approximately 600 complex trauma surgeries per year. Her research interests include host factors associated with delayed fracture healing (nutrition, infection, frailty, and others). At Emory, we have an interdisciplinary approach, and the research is being conducted at Grady, Emory, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Additional research interests include optimization of resident education.