Dr. Katherine Sahm - Class of 1990
In April of 2010, Archmere alumna Katherine Sahm, M.D. ’90 made local history as Saint Francis Hospital’s first general surgeon. So far, her experience has been “superb.” “It’s wonderful to be part of the re-building of a great community, faith-based hospital,” she says.
The only Catholic hospital in Delaware, Saint Francis was looking to grow its general surgery and women’s health programs when Dr. Sahm was hired almost two years ago.
“The most rewarding part of my job,” she says, “is helping patients that might not otherwise be helped.” Committed to its Catholic mission, Saint Francis Hospital frequently offers assistance to the poor and uninsured, and provides pastoral as well as medical care.
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The focus on community is something Dr. Sahm associates Archmere with, as well. “There’s a sense of family,” she says. As an auk, Sahm played volleyball, basketball and softball and participated in the summer program to France in 1988 and served as an exchange student to Russia in summer 1990.
After graduating from Lafayette College and Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Sahm completed her surgical residency in the Christiana Care Health System. She also enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. As a major in the Corps, Sahm has served in Iraq twice, an experience that she says helped to hone her surgical skills and made her “truly appreciate what the military goes through.”
Dr. Sahm is an American College of Surgeons fellow and was selected as a young surgeon representative for the organization’s Delaware Chapter in 2010. In this role, she worked to help young surgeons to develop leadership skills, participated in the policy-making process and represented St. Francis at the ACS Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
In a 2010 feature article in The Dialog, Dr. Sahm talks about how she was inspired by her high school education, saying “What Archmere did for me as a school in general is instill in me the ability to think, more so than anything else. No matter what you were good at, they encouraged you to think and to excel in what your talent was.”
To read the 2010 The Dialog article, go to http://www.stfrancishealthcare.org/ and click on the link under "St. Francis in the News."
To read the 2010 The Dialog article, go to http://www.stfrancishealthcare.org/ and click on the link under "St. Francis in the News."
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