Samuel “Buddy” Hammerman, MD, is executive vice president and chief medical officer for Select Medical, the largest inpatient provider of post-intensive care unit (ICU) care in the United States. Over the past decade, he has led multiple initiatives by partnering with clinical and quality teams to reduce hospital-acquired conditions, including pressure injuries, Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), and central line–associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), across 105 hospitals. He has developed and implemented innovative clinical and rehabilitative pathways to support functional recovery of patients suffering from medical and traumatic injuries. In addition, he has led efforts to actively participate at key critical care society meetings, with presentations at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and CHEST recently published an article from him and his team about long-term acute care hospitals extending ICU capacities for COVID-19 response and recovery.
A practicing pulmonary and critical care physician, Dr. Hammerman is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and an assistant professor at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, and his master’s degree in medical management from Carnegie Mellon University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Boston University Medical Center.
A frequent lecturer and published author, Dr. Hammerman is a member of the American Hospital Association Committee on Clinical Leadership, SCCM, ATS, and past governor (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) of the American College of Chest Physicians. Before joining Select Medical in 2013, he was director of pulmonary and critical care medicine for Geisinger Health System.
Dr. Hammerman was appointed to the Board by the governor to fill the position of a commonwealth resident healthcare worker, pursuant to MCARE Act Section 303(b)(6).
