In season 16, Izzie Stevens is listed as what kind of attending?

In season 16, Izzie Stevens is listed as an attending surgical oncologist.

Izzie begins Grey’s Anatomy as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, alongside Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Alex Karev, and George O’Malley. She advances to resident status during the show’s early seasons before leaving the hospital after her marriage to Alex Karev deteriorates.

Her professional status is revisited in “Leave a Light On,” the season 16 episode that explains what happened to Izzie after her departure. Alex learns that Izzie lives in Kansas with their twins, Alexis and Eli, and that she has continued practicing medicine as a surgical oncologist. Surgical oncology focuses on cancer-related operations, making the specialty especially fitting after Izzie’s own battle with metastatic melanoma.

A common mix-up is confusing Izzie’s specialty with general surgery, the broad training path she followed earlier in the series. The show does not present her as a neurosurgeon, pediatric surgeon, or trauma surgeon in season 16.