Sam Klippert

Background

About Sam Klippert

What is better than helping and healing our fellow humans? Ever since I was young, I always knew a career in the healthcare field would be tremendously interesting and rewarding. After the events of September 11th, I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and became a crucial member of a Critical Care Air Transport Team, tasked with airlifting the most critically wounded soldiers from Iraq to Germany so they could receive the best possible care and treatment. It was intense, highly fulfilling, and I loved every minute of it. The experience taught me discipline, leadership, communication, organization, perseverance, collaboration, and the importance of paying attention to details. With the skills acquired in the Reserves as a foundation, I transitioned to civilian life as a Respiratory Therapist and enjoyed caring for patients in large (400+ bed) hospitals. It was critical patient care and I worked shoulder-to-shoulder with doctors and nurses as we cared for patients suffering cardiac arrest, arriving to the Emergency Department after trauma, and nurturing premature babies as young as 26 gestational weeks. I learned to stay calm under tremendous pressure, how to handle difficult conversations in multidisciplinary teams, and to always give your best effort. After seventeen years in critical care, I was ready for my next step and completed a bachelors degree program in Health Informatics, which allows me to participate in the care and healing of far more patients on a day-to-day basis. It’s difficult to call it “work” considering how much I enjoy completing the projects, tasks, and problem-solving assignments that comprise a typical week in Health Informatics. Just a portion of my skillset is used to: • Serve as a professional role model in promoting the understanding, integration, and application of information technology in healthcare settings. • Act as a liaison between clinical care and information technology, supporting all employees throughout the care continuum in the implementation, learning, use, adoption and optimization of clinical technologies. • Support the analysis, design, implementation, evaluation, optimization and maintenance of clinical information applications and projects within the assigned hospital and region. • Utilize team participation skills delivered in a complex, highly stressful environment, skilled use of clinical information sciences, and fundamentals of project and change management.