Roger William Samuels, MD, MPH

Dr. Roger W. Samuels serves as a staff pulmonary/critical care attending physician at multiple facilities within the Johns Hopkins network, in addition to having a full-time clinical appointment in Annapolis, Maryland. He has an interest in advanced critical care therapies, including lung transplantation, post-cardiac-surgery critical care, and extracorporeal life support (ECLS). He is also active in medical education for residents and fellows. 

Dr. Samuels received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and later served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps, where he partnered with a number of development organizations in rural Guatemala from 2004-2007.

He then completed his medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2014, as well as an additional master's degree in public health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School during which he was recognized by the prestigious Sommer Scholars Program, was the recipient of the Louis P. Fink Capstone award for his work in the field of emerging infectious diseases, and received a TL1 Clinical and Translational Research Award from the NIH.

Subsequently, he completed a residency program in Internal Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Osler Internal Medicine Program and later served as the inaugural 'Global Clinical Leaders' fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHMI), during which he led a number of research and quality improvement initiatives at some of the international collaborating medical centers of the Johns Hopkins University. His Pulmonary/Critical training also took place at Johns Hopkins, during which he spent an additional year as a dedicated COVID-19 Intensivist during the height of the pandemic. 

In addition to his current clinical role as a Pulmonary/Critical Care physician, he has a breadth of training and expertise in the field of clinical research and was previously funded as a Principal Investigator under multiple extramural awards from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for his work in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplantation.