About Salem Samra, MD
Dr. Salem Samra was born and raised in New Jersey where he graduated as valedictorian from the Ranney School. He completed a double major in the Biological Basis of Behavior and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to attend medical school at the Baylor College of Medicine where he graduated with high honors, Alpha Omega Alpha, and received the prestigious DeBakey Scholar Award. He completed a six-year residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Yale University and stayed on to complete a fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at Yale. During his training, Dr. Samra published numerous papers in plastic and hand surgery and presented his research at multiple regional and national meetings. Dr. Samra joined The Samra Group on July 1, 2013. He is on the medical staff of Bayshore Community Hospital, Riverview Medical Center, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Raritan Bay Medical Center (Old Bridge and Perth Amboy Divisions), and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Dr. Samra is trained in the full spectrum of plastic surgery including: craniofacial surgery, breast reconstruction, reconstructive oncology, body contouring, burn surgery, wound care, cosmetic surgery, and has particular expertise in hand and microsurgery after his fellowship training at Yale. The fellowship consisted of a one-year immersion in the orthopedic and plastic reconstructive procedures of the wrist, hand and fingers as well as peripheral nerve surgery and microsurgical reconstruction of complex defects using free tissue transfers. Dr. Samra has participated in many international surgical missions. The first was in November of 2011 when he traveled to Pereira, Colombia with the group Changing Children’s Lives. There he performed numerous craniofacial reconstructive surgeries on both children and young adults with cleft lip, cleft palate, and other craniofacial deformities. In March of 2013, along with Hand Help, Inc., he traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras for one week to perform hand surgeries on patients in need. The procedures involved complex reconstructive hand surgeries on patients (adults and children) with delayed presentations of nerve and tendon injuries as well as congenital deformities. With the Syrian American Medical Society, Dr. Samra has traveled three times to Amman, Jordan to treat Syrian refugees fleeing conflict in their homeland. His first trip was in May of 2013 and then he re-visited Amman in March of 2015 and April of 2018. In Jordan he has performed various procedures including lower extremity reconstruction, craniofacial surgery, flap reconstruction of pressure sores in spinal cord injury patients, and complex reconstructive hand surgeries including bone, tendon, and nerve grafting.
