Attending


 * An attending physician is a physician who has completed residency and practices medicine in a clinic or hospital, in the speciality learned during residency. An attending physician can supervise fellows, residents and medical students. Attending physicians may also have an academic title at an affiliated university such as "professor". Attending physicians have final responsibility, legally and otherwise, for patient care, even when many decisions are made by other physicians. Attending physicians may also still be in training, such as a fellow in a subspecialty, but remains able to work as an attending, as they have completed their residency.

Attendings

 * Dr. Owen Hunt (Chief of Surgery, Trauma Surgery)
 * Dr. Derek Shepherd (Head of Neurosurgery)
 * Dr. Richard Webber (General Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Arizona Robbins (Pediatric Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Miranda Bailey (General Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Callie Torres (Orthopedic Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Meredith Grey ​(General Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Cristina Yang (Cardiothoracic Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Alex Karev (Pediatric Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. Jackson Avery (Plastic Surgery Attending)
 * Dr. April Kepner (Trauma Surgery Attending)

Former Attendings

 * Dr. Preston Burke (Former Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery)
 * Dr. Addison Montgomery (Former Head of Neonatal surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology)
 * Dr. Erica Hahn (Former Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery)
 * Dr. Mark Sloan (Former Head of Plastic Surgery, and former Otolaryngology Attending)
 * Dr. Teddy Altman (Former Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Triva:
April Kepner is the only Attending who has not passed her boards to become a fully certified doctor.