Dr. Albert Devon Sam, III

2010 Louisiana Role Model
Umbrella Project

Dr. Albert Sam, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana has spent his career advancing the practice and science vascular and endovascular medicine. Dr. Sam graduated Magna Cum Laude from Morehouse College and received his medical training at Duke University School of Medicine. He later completed a general surgery residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also received a Master of Science in Surgery from the graduate school. Dr. Sam’s thesis directly resulted in an innovative drug patent for the treatment of sepsis, a common cause of post-operative death in the United States.  His education continued with a fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery at the Feinberg Northwestern University Medical School after which he joined the Vascular Specialty Center in 2003. Dr. Sam’s educational attainments – which also include an executive master of medical management from Tulane - have helped him become one of the first physicians nationally to be certified in general surgery, vascular surgery, and endovascular medicine.

He has authored over thirty manuscripts to date and has been named one of America’s top surgeons from 2007-2010. Dr. Sam serves as a national spokesman for the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association and oversees numerous clinical trials related to vascular disease and stroke prevention. He has founded the Vascular Specialty Center Educational Foundation; supports the arts through work with the Arts Council of Baton Rouge and the River City Jazz Coalition; and contributes civically by serving on the board of directors of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Advance Baton Rouge and National Public Radio (WRKF).