Samuel M. Galvagno, DO, PhD

BS (cum laude):  Mount Saint Mary's University
DO: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
PhD: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Certificate: Lean Six SIgma Black Belt, Villanova University

MS: Air University, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL 

MBA: University of Maryland Global Campus, MD                 
Internship: St. Vincents Midtown Medical Center, New York, NY
Residency: Brigham and Woman's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Fellowship: Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation (GTPCI), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Galvagno is a Tenured Professor and the Interim Chair at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Galvagno graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2000. After an internship at St. Clare’s / St. Vincent’s Midtown Hospital in New York, New York, Dr. Galvagno entered active duty as a general medical officer and emergency physician.  Following his active duty tour, he received residency training at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, where he was elected Chief Resident during his final residency year.  He pursued a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after residency, and also completed a research fellowship and extensive training in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He defended his Ph.D. in 2012 with a thesis focused on helicopter emergency medical services for adults with major trauma. Dr. Galvagno also attained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training from Villanova University, earned an MBA from the University of Maryland, and is a graduate of the United States Air Force Air Command and Staff College and Air War College.

Dr. Galvagno's research goal is to coordinate, develop, and lead efforts to advance the science of critical care, combining regional applications with a global perspective, through the cultivation of a versatile and robust research methodology. He has secondary interests in patient monitoring, resuscitation, safety & quality improvement in the intensive care unit, and medical education. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and has authored several textbooks and textbook chapters. He has received funding from the NIH and DoD.

He is board-certified in anesthesiology (ABA), critical care medicine (ABA), neurocritical care (UCNS and ABMS), emergency medical services (ABEM) and public health (NBPHE).

In addition to appointments within the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Anesthesiology Section, he serves on the ABA Critical Care Exam Committee (vice-chair), the ABPN Neurocritical Care Exam Committee and was elected as a fellow to the Academy of Critical Care Medicine in 2016. Dr. Galvagno is a Colonel in the United States Air Force, serving as the Mobilization Assistant to the Command Surgeon for Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA.

aeromedical critical care, helicopter emergency medical services, critical care medicine, prehospital emergency care, patient safety, intensive care medicine, trauma resuscitation

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