Norma Michelle Smalls, MD FACS

Norma Smalls, MD, FACS, FCCM, MBA is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biology at Tufts University, Massachusetts, prior to graduating from Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC. She completed her General Surgery at Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC and her Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship was earned at the Medstar Trauma Center-Washington Hospital Center, in Washington, DC. In 2012 received a traditional MBA in the Business of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. After an 18-year tenure as the Director of Surgical Critical Care at the District of Columbia General Hospital, during which time she held a number of hospital leadership positions, including Chief of Surgical Critical Care, President-Elect of the Medical Staff and Chair of Surgical Quality Assurance Committee, she moved back to Howard University Hospital in 2002 to continue her career of teaching, a robust clinical practice, and research. She has held a number of positions in the ACS and is presently Governor of Metropolitan Washington, DC Chapter of the ACS. Surgeons. She presently serves on the Education Pillar of the ACS Governors' Committee and ACS Committee on Education, having previously served as Awards Subcommittee Chair of the ACS Women in Surgery Committee. She has been a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine since 1983 and has served on the Surgical Section Membership Committee (Chair), Hospitalist Committee (Chair), Research Committee, Clinical Research and Epidemiology Committee, Surgical Section Strategic Planning Committee, and Resident and Graduate Education Committee. Additionally, Dr. Smalls organized and founded the Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter of the Association of Women Surgeons. She has been an invited lecturer at numerous national conferences and is the author of a number of peer-reviewed publications.

Critical Care

Trauma/Injury Procedures

• abdominal injuries
• abdominal wall reconstruction
• amputation
• bladder injury
• blunt trauma
• burns
• cardiac injury
• chest injuries
• cricothyroidotomy
• extremity injury
• foot/leg injury
• hand/arm injury
• intestine injuries
• kidney injury
• liver injury
• liver resection
• lung resections
• neck injuries
• skin grafting
• stomach injuries
• thyroidectomy
• tracheotomy
• Trauma/Injury Procedures
• vascular injuries
• wound debridement

DC Genl Hosp (Wash DC).

Attending

07/1984—07/2001

Howard University Hospital

Washington, DC

Attending

03/2002—Present

Howard University College of Medicine

Washington, DC

Associate Professor