Richard Sams, MD

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Dr. Sams up grew up in Lake Geneva, WI and joined the Navy out of high school. He went to Boston University for college and medical school on Navy scholarships and graduated from Waukesha Family Practice Residency Program in Waukesha, WI in 1998. Dr. Sams completed an MA in Bioethics at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL in 2006, and the Faculty Development Fellowship at Madigan Army Medical Center in 2007. As a Medical Officer he completed a 22-year career in the Navy, practicing and teaching full spectrum family medicine, deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, and engaging in healthcare ethics, retiring from active service in 2017. He is currently appointed as Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, and is the Medical Director of Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home, one of two academic Veterans long term care facilities. He has been married to his wife Teri since 1989, and they have five children, and three grandchildren. His interests include theological ethics, and the intersection of love and healthcare. Dr. Sams is an amateur beekeeper. He loves to bicycle to work most days of the week and spend time with his family.