Joseph Karam, MD

Dr. Joseph Karam was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Health Careers High School, nurturing an early interest in medicine and the sciences. He completed both Graduate and Medical school at UTMB at Galveston, where he was awarded the Oslerian Medicine Award and was accepted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society for his compassionate and altruistic care of patients. He completed residency in General Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Karam took a special interest in the meticulous care of ICU patients and trauma surgery. This interest led him to complete his fellowship in trauma surgery and surgical critical care at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Dr. Karam is board certified in General Surgery as well as Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. After his training was complete in 2015, he moved back home to San Antonio, Texas to be with his family.

Dr. Karam currently lives with his spouse and their beautiful children in the same neighborhood as his parents and his previous childhood home. It has been a long journey, but Dr. Karam will happily admit that there is no place like home!