2020 Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
Chadwick P. Smith, MD, FACS, is a practicing acute care, trauma, and burn surgeon at the Level I Trauma Center at Orlando Regional Medical Center. He joined the hospital’s Department of Surgical Education in 2011 and has served as the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program director since 2013.
He is also the co-medical director for Orlando Health Tactical Medicine, where he provides education and support for the Orlando Police Department’s SWAT team.
An alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dr. Smith received his medical degree from UTHSC in 2001 and completed his general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Orlando Health. He is board-certified in general surgery, surgical critical care, and neuro-critical care.
Dr. Smith has received many accolades throughout his career, including the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Florida Medical Association and the 2016 Central Floridian of the Year Award from the Orlando Sentinel for his role in treating victims in the Pulse Nightclub shooting. He was the surgeon on call and led surgical triage efforts that night. He has traveled nationally and internationally to present at medical and educational conferences about his experience.
Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is involved in several professional organizations, including the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society.
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