Norma Smalls, MD FACS

Norma Smalls, MD, FACS, FCCM, MBA is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Critical Care, affiliated with Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. She is board certified in both General Surgery, and Trauma/Critical Care. Her undergraduate education was at Tufts University. She attended Howard University College of Medicine earning the distinction of induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her fellowship training in Trauma and Critical Care at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, she was immediately asked to take on the daunting task of Chief, Surgical Critical Care at the nation’s capital only government hospital, whose Trauma Center’s admission rate was in the top tenth percentile nationwide. Within the American College of Surgeons, she has held membership and/or leadership positions as the Governor of the Metropolitan Washington, DC Chapter, Committee on Resident Education, Best Practices Committee, Workgroup on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and the Women in Surgery Committee. She has also been intricately involved with the educational sector of the Society of Critical Care Medicine through its Resident and Graduate Committee, Research Steering Committee, and Clinical Research and Epidemiology Committee. She was recently appointed to the Advisory Council of Harvard Business Review (HBR). Other present and past association memberships include the Association of Women Surgeons and the Society of Black Academic Surgeons. She has authored 2 book chapters on the care of critically injured patients addressing Mass Casualty Burn Care and Conventional Explosions and Blast Injuries. She is a curriculum author of the ACS Cognitive Simulations Program, the Evidence-Based Decisions in Surgery (EDBS) Modules, the ACS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit, and has contributed to the ACS Best Practices Guidelines educational resources.

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