Meet our program director
Dr. Gregory Cerilli is a board-certified General Surgeon and Surgical Critical Care Intensivist with over 20 years of experience at Level 1 and Level 2 Trauma centers. He obtained his undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and his Doctorate of Medicine from Jefferson Medical College. He went to complete his General Surgery residency at the Medical College of Ohio, as well as a Surgical Education fellowship. Additionally, he completed his Surgical Critical Care fellowship at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he has obtained training in robotic surgery, using the da Vinci minimally-invasive robotic system.
He has also been an active educator through training residents and medical students at various health systems, including as Director of the Medical Student Surgical Clerkship at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI. Further, he has conducted medical research at the graduate and professional level. Dr. Cerilli has been a member of multiple surgical societies, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Surgeons, the Midwest Surgical Society, the Eastern Association for the Study of Trauma, the Association for Surgical Education, the Toledo Surgical Society, and the Society for Simulation in Health Care.
Dr. Kellie Amodeo, MD - Associate Program Director
Dr. Kellie Amodeo is a double board-certified and fellowship trained trauma and acute care surgeon practicing at Trident Medical Center in Charleston, SC. She became a trauma surgeon to address an immediacy of need in patients with life-threatening injuries and further subspecializes in surgical critical care in order to provide continuity to surgical and trauma patients who are very ill in the intensive care unit. She also maintains an elective practice, seeing patients in the clinic and offering elective procedures to better patients’ quality of life.
Dr. Amodeo earned her medical degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, and completed her residency in general surgery at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, WV. After residency, Dr. Amodeo completed a fellowship in surgical critical care at Prisma Health in Columbia, SC.
Dr. Jason Clark, MD - Core Faculty
Dr. Clark is a native of South Carolina and graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina. He completed his general surgery residency at Orlando Health along with his critical care fellowship. He received further fellowship training in Hand Surgery at the University of Mississippi through the plastic surgery division. He is board certified in all three. He continues to treat the acutely injured and critically ill patients while enjoying an upper extremity and soft tissue coverage practice.
Most importantly, Dr. Clark proudly serves as the General Surgery Program Director at Trident and has been training residents since 2017. Dr. Clark is the HCA Healthcare Trident Health Well-Being Chair.
Dr. Travis Arnold-Lloyd, MD - Core Faculty
Lieutenant Colonel Travis A Arnold Lloyd is a board-certified general surgeon, trauma surgeon, and acute care physician and is currently assigned to the 99th Surgical Operations Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Working at Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center (MOMMC), Lt Col Arnold Lloyd serves as the Trauma Medical Director for the sole Air Force, American College of Surgery Level Three Trauma Center, Mike O'Callaghan Militaty Medical Center. Lt Col Arnold Lloyd additionally works alongside his military team members, embedded in the civilian trauma system at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada with the Sustained Medical and Readiness Training (SMART) team. This essential military-civilian partnership supports clinical currency and ensures the full range of deployment readiness for highly specialized medical teams.
Lt Col Arnold Lloyd is originally from Ridgecrest, CA. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of California, Davis, CA in 2001. He went on to receive his Master of Public Health at the State University of New York, Albany in 2009 as well as both his Master's of Science in Bioethics and his Medical Degree at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY in 2010. Through the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Financial Assistance Program (FAP), Lt Col Arnold Lloyd commissioned in 2011 at the start of his second year of general surgery residency at Albany Medical Center and was assigned to the 9016th Air Force Reserve Unit. After completion of his general surgery residency, Lt Col Arnold Lloyd entered active duty in July 2015 and moved to Robbins Air Force Base. He then completed a trauma surgery, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care fellowship at Grady Memorial Hospital through Emory University Medical School in Atlanta, GA. Lt Col Arnold Lloyd obtained board certification in general surgery in January 2016 and served as administrative fellow and general surgery resident professor and mentor. Following completion of his training in 2017, he was stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center as a staff surgeon and assumed the role of the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency from 2018 to 2019.
Lt Col Arnold Lloyd trained as a CCATT physician in 2018 and completed a humanitarian mission following Hurricane Ida. He has also supported a number of critical patient transports across the U.S., 2 Mobility Guardian exercises, and deployed in support of the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 Response in 2020. Upon returning form deployment, Lt Col Arnold Lloyd became the Trauma Intensive Care Unit Medical Director at BAMC and served as both the Compliance and Enterprise Risk Committee (CERC) Chair, interim General Surgery Flight Commander, and General Surgery Element Chief. Lt Col Arnold Lloyd obtained board certification in surgical critical care in April 2021.
Lt Col Arnold Lloyd was then assigned to the 375th Operational Medicine & Readiness Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois in 2021. Working in St. Louis, Lt Col Arnold Lloyd was part of a new partnership with Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, forging a new avenue for sustainment of critical medical and surgical skills through whole Critical Care Air Transport (CCAT) team embedment with a civilian partner.