University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Colonel (Dr.) Valerie Sams serves as Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCAT) Training cadre and the Director for the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) Cincinnati a thte University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Col Sams completed her General Surgery Residency at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn. in 2013. She was then accepted for Trauma Critical Care fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center where she graduated in 2015 and remained as a staff surgeon and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation physician. Following completion of her training, she deployed as the Trauma Czar for Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan from October 2015-April 2016. She returned from deployment and assumed the role of General Surgery Element Leader and then as General Surgery and Radiology Flight Commander and the Associate Program Director for the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship until 2018 when she deployed a second time as the Trauma Czar in Bagram. She returned to serve as the Trauma Division research director and Performance Improvement director in addition to the 59th Medical Wing Science and Technology Division's Surgical and Technological Advancement for Traumatic Injuries in Combat research program director, and Ground Surgical Team Pilot Unit Leader. She assumed the role of Trauma Medical Director and Assistant Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care in September 2019 and served in this role until June 2022.
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