Roger William Samuels, MD, MPH

Dr. Roger W. Samuels serves as a pulmonary/critical care attending physician at multiple facilities within the Johns Hopkins Network, with a primary appointment at Johns Hopkins Medicine Pulmonology in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He has an interest in advanced critical care therapies, including Lung Transplantation, post-cardiac-surgery critical care, and extracorporeal life support (ECLS). Dr. Samuels received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and later served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps from 2004 to 2007. He 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 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. He later served as the inaugural 'Global Clinical Leaders' fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHMI), during which he led several research initiatives at some of the international collaborating medical centers of the Johns Hopkins University. His Pulmonary/Critical Care 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 role as a clinician, he has a breadth of training and expertise in 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. He is also active in medical education for residents and fellows, and was the 2024-2025 Recipient of the "Golden Apple Award" for excellence in teaching at Luminis Health/Anne Arundel Medical Center.