Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD is a Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. Dr Pugh obtained her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley in Neurobiology and her medical degree at Howard University School of Medicine. Upon completion of her surgical training at Howard University Hospital, she went to Stanford University and obtained a PhD in Education. She is the first surgeon in the US to obtain a doctorate in education. Her research interests are in the use of technology for medical and surgical education. The use of technology to 'Teach Touch' is one of her major research areas and her work has received numerous awards from various medical and engineering organizations. In addition, she has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio and on the Chicago Tonight Show. Dr. Pugh holds a patent on the sensor and data acquisition technologies used to measure and characterize the sense of touch. Currently, over one hundred medical and nursing schools are using one of her sensor enabled training tools for their students and trainees.