Dr. Simon G. Talbot is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Attending Surgeon in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Auckland, School of Medicine in New Zealand and later moved to the United States, pursuing research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He completed his residency in the Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency Program followed by a fellowship in hand and microsurgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He works primarily in hand and reconstructive plastic surgery where he is the Director of Upper Extremity Transplantation. His work has resulted in more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, more than 100 invited presentations, and more than 25 chapters and lay-press articles. He heads a Department of Defense multi-million-dollar-funded laboratory in collaboration with investigators at the Harvard School of Engineering/Wyss Institute and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center/Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. This research involves nerve recovery facilitated by growth factor delivery, psychosocial predictors of outcomes after amputation/transplantation, and several novel device development projects. Administratively he is the Co-chair of the BWPO Physicians’ Council. He is heavily involved in the area of physician distress, burnout, and moral injury, with a leading article in Stat News being downloaded more than 280000 times, and frequently speaking and consulting nationally on this topic.