Samir M. Fakhry, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Fakhry graduated from the American University of Beirut, School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his residency in general surgery and his fellowship in critical care and trauma at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1987.

From 1988 until 1991 he led the trauma program as Director for Trauma Services at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington D.C. In 1991, he accepted a position as Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Associate Chief, Trauma Services at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. While at UNC, he rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure and was awarded several teaching awards by the medical students and the surgical residents. He remained there until 1997 when he took over the leadership of the Inova Regional Trauma Center at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia as Chief of Trauma Services. He spent 12 years leading the ASC COT verified Level 1 Trauma Center at Fairfax which was the busiest trauma center in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

In January of 2009, he was recruited to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC where he is Professor of Surgery and Chief of General Surgery as well as the Physician Leader for the Surgical Acute and Critical Care Service Line.

Dr. Fakhry has been heavily involved in trauma and surgical critical care research. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications, abstracts and book chapters to his credit. He is a member of many national societies and serves on several national committees and boards. He is a frequent speaker locally as well as nationally.

Dr. Fakhry maintains a high interest in all aspects of trauma and acute care surgery. He is currently a Principle Investigator on an NIH grant to study the impact of telemedicine technology in the care of patients with sepsis and trauma. He has also received funding for numerous projects in areas of injury prevention, surgical critical care and trauma. These include the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN), medical informatics applications, traumatic brain injury, intestinal injury, aggressive driving, teen DUI prevention and surgical education.