BOSTON - Kathryn Butler, MD, has joined the Division of Acute Care Surgery and Critical Care in the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Butler received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY. She comes to BIDMC from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she completed her residency in general surgery and her fellowship in surgical critical care.

Butler provides care for trauma patients, emergency general surgery patients and critically ill surgical patients.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and currently ranks third in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org.