Kyle Remick, MD FACS

Dr. Remick is a trauma surgeon with a passion for improvement of clinical trauma care and development of trauma and emergency care systems for military conflicts and austere environments globally. His military trauma experience includes duty with special operations aviation (deployed October 2001-March 2002), command of a surgical team (deployed July 2008-September 2009), Task Force Medical Commander for a military exercise in Botswana (August 2012), a military trauma system assessment in South Sudan (November 2013), clinical medical director at a UK field hospital in Afghanistan (March-December 2014), Military Deputy Director for the DoD Combat Casualty Research Program from 2015-2017, deployment to Syria in support of military operations (March-August 2017), and combat theater trauma director and hospital CMO in Iraq (November 2018-March 2019). In September 2019, he retired from the US Army and rejoined the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine as Professor of Surgery and Associate Chair for Operations and Readiness. In this capacity, he led the USU KSA Clinical Readiness Program to improve expeditionary and combat trauma readiness across the DoD and this has now transitioned to a JTS led program. He also spearheaded trauma and emergency medical system readiness across the DHA National Capital Region and represented USU and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to the state trauma systems. In 2023, he left federal service for his current position as Division Chief and Trauma Medical Director at Meritus Medical Center, a level 3 trauma center in Western Maryland, with the goal to build an academic trauma division and enhance capabilities to become a regional trauma referral center. His primary interests are in trauma system leadership and development, clinical trauma care in combat and austere settings, global surgery, and disaster planning.

Critical Care

Trauma/Injury Procedures

Meritus Medical Center

Hagerstown, MD

Chief

10/2023—Present

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Professor

03/2020—Present