Trauma Czar Col Valerie Sams, MD on Skill Sustainment, Clinical Readiness, and Optimizing the Military Health System

Podcast: WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast · Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey

Opublikowano: 2026-05-27

Col Valerie Sams, MD is an Air Force trauma surgeon, surgical critical care expert, and the Director of the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) at the University of Cincinnati. Her path to the operating room was anything but ordinary. Before medical school, she served as an Air Force line officer in logistics and fuels, learning how the operational side of the service actually works at the flight line. That bilingual fluency in operations and medicine now shapes how she advocates for resources, leads hospitals, and prepares the military health system for the next f...