Dr. Craig Sisson is one of the founding faculty members in the UTHSCSA Department of Emergency Medicine.   Dr. Sisson graduated with High Honors from the University of Michigan’s Honors College with a degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 1999, and subsequently graduated with Honors from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit in 2003.   He then completed a four-year Emergency Medicine residency program in 2007, followed by a one-year Emergency Ultrasound fellowship through the University Emergency Medicine Foundation at Rhode Island Hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.  In 2008, Dr. Sisson became a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine where he served as the Director of Emergency Ultrasound.  In 2011 he was recruited to Texas to become a faculty member in what was then the UTHSCSA Division of Emergency Medicine with the goal of assisting with the establishment of Emergency Medicine at UTHSCSA and leading Emergency Medicine point-of-care ultrasound program development. 

Currently, he is a Clinical Professor and the Vice Chair of Education and Academic Affairs for the UTHSCSA Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Sisson has taught medical technologists, nurses, medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, residents, fellows and attending physician staff from multiple medical specialties locally, nationally and internationally in the use of ultrasound technology.  Dr. Sisson has been happily married for 24 years to his wife Jennifer and his daughter Madelyn currently attends the University of Maryland.