Lt Col Barsoumian graduated Loyola Marymount University
(2004) as top graduate. She attended medical school at the University of
California, Irvine prior to completing her internal medicine (IM) residency
and infectious disease (ID) fellowship at SAUSHEC (2013).
Lt Col Barsoumian served as the Officer in Charge of the BAMC
ID clinic (2014-2017), the associate program director of the ID fellowship
(2016-2018), and the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship
Program (2017-2021). Under her leadership, the program was recognized
as a Center of Excellence (2019, 2021) and earned 7 DHA High Reliability
Awards (2018-2022). Lt Col Barsoumian led the SAUSHEC ID
Fellowship Program (2018-2023) and earned the John D. Roscelli
Outstanding Program Director Award (2021) and the USUHS Dean’s
Teaching Award (2021).
Lt Col Barsoumian is the chief of the BAMC ID Service and the
ID Consultant to the USAF Surgeon General (from 2022). She sits on
leadership committees for USU’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research
Program and the Military Infectious Disease Research Program’s Threat
Prioritization Panel, directing the focus of operationally ID relevant
research DoD-wide. Lt Col Barsoumian authored 35 manuscripts, 1 book
chapter, and 2 Joint Trauma System guidelines. She mentored trainees to
publish 7 first author manuscripts and present 25 times at scientific
meetings. Lt Col Barsoumian served on the Infectious Disease Society of
America (IDSA) Medical Education Work Group (2018-2022), co-
authored 2 national curricula for ID fellows, and published 2 others. She is
currently serving as a panel member for ACGME’s ID appeals committee
(2022-2028).
Lt Col Barsoumian deployed as a medical advisor to the Afghan
National Army (2014-2015), completing 63 outside the wire missions. She
conducted an infection prevention SAV to 9 Role II and III facilities in
Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan to quell an outbreak of multidrug resistant
organisms in combat wounded (2019). Lt Col Barsoumian conducted the
first video investigation to successfully abort a down-range fatal outbreak
(2021). She is a course instructor at USAFSAM’s Global Medicine
Course, the Joint Forces Combat Trauma Management Course, the Public
Health Emergency Management Basic Course, and Infection Control in the
Joint Environment Course and has taught on these topics overseas to
Peruvian (2017, 2023) and Uruguayan (2018) military members.

Lt Col Barsoumian is a Professor of Medicine with the Uniformed
Services University, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and
the IDSA, and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.