Lieutenant Colonel Michael Papacostas

Lt Col Micheal Papacostas is a Pediatric Critical Care physician, and a Critical Care Air Transport Team physician. He serves as an instructor for the Critical Care Air Transport advanced course, at the Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skill Cincinnati. He graduated Cum Laud from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. After college Lt Col Papacostas participated in the Health Professional Scholarship Program, earning his medical degree from Temple University School of medicine in 2011. While in the Health Professional Scholarship Program he earned distinguished graduate honors at commissioned officer training school by graduating in the top 1% of his class ranked # 3 out of 305 trainees in August 2008. After medical school he completed an internship and residency in pediatrics in 2014, and a Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship in 2017. His post fellowship assignments have included the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth; the 375th CCATT embedment unit – an expeditionary medical unit attached to the 375th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron at Scott Air Force base, and his current assignment as an instructor at CSTARS Cincinnati. He has been a validated CCATT physician since 2020. He has deployed and participated in multiple exercises as a CCATT physician. He has been active in medical education and simulation throughout his medical career. Lt Col Papacostas’ current focuses are on the utilization of Simulation in preparation for operational medicine, and VR simulation to augment training and education. He is married with 3 children. In his spare time, Lt Col Papacostas enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, running, and snowboarding.