Lydia Lam, MD Lydia Lam, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and Emergency Medicine Program Director, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California LAC-USC Medical Center

Specialty: Trauma surgery

Medical Centre: Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center

Residency: University of California, San Diego

Fellowship: Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center

Bio

Dr. Lam is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center in the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care which is the busiest trauma center on the west coast. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. Due to her interest in the education of surgeons, she serves as the Associate Program Director of the Critical Care Fellowship and is the Medical Student Surgery Faculty advisor. She graduated from UCLA with a BS in biochemistry, and went to medical school at Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School. She then completed her general surgery residency at UCSD and subsequently did her fellowship LAC-USC Medical Center in trauma and surgical critical care. In her free time, she volunteers in humanitarian medical missions to various parts of the world and is currently a co-medical director for Pacific Island Medical Aid. She has been deployed by the Dean at Keck School of Medicine on multiple Haiti relief efforts and, recently, to Nepal for disaster relief.