Dawn Sears is a board-certified gastroenterologist and hepatologist, a clinical professor at UT Southwestern, and the founder of GutGirlMD Consulting. She currently serves in the gastroenterology division at the North Texas Veterans Administration, where she works as an instructor, gastroenterologist, and coach.

Much of her career and research has focused on the well-being of her colleagues, with a stated goal of stopping the loss of women physicians from health care. She spearheaded the Women Leaders in Medicine program, serving more than 300 women physicians and moving the needle on engagement, retention, and burnout, and she hosts the ACE and Emerge women physician empowerment conferences. As an ICF Certified Executive Coach, she works regularly with both private and institutionally based physicians. She has served as chief of well-being, program director, and chief of gastroenterology at multiple institutions, and has sat on boards of directors. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the American Medical Association, the American Medical Women's Association, the Texas Medical Association, and the Physicians Foundation.

She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications spanning physician burnout, women in medicine, hepatitis screening, and gastrointestinal disease, with work appearing in PLOS One, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastroenterology, and The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She shares updates on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and YouTube.