Lucian Vlad, MD

Lucian G. Vlad, MD currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 

Born & raised in Romania, Dr. Vlad relocated to the United States in 2005. He graduated Medical School in 2001 from the University “Lucian Blaga” in Sibiu, Romania. He completed his residency in 2008 from Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center. Dr. Vlad has been Board Certified in Family Medicine since 2008. From 2008 until 2012 Dr. Vlad worked in an Outpatient Family Medicine practice as a Hospitalist. He started part time in 2009 at the Wound Care & Hyperbaric clinic. Since 2012, Dr. Vlad has been a faculty member in Plastic Reconstructive Surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine and has been full time in the outpatient Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center which has saw its volume triple in the following 5 years. Dr. Vlad is a faculty member for the Wound Care Fellowship at Wake Forest University and is currently working on the development of an inpatient Limb Salvage Team as interdepartmental project. 

Dr. Vlad is active in research on collagen matrices, low intensity laser therapy, cellular therapy nutrition for chronic wounds, neuropathic injuries, synthetic tissue grafts, NPWT and HBO.