Samuel (Sam) Proffitt

Biography

Samuel Proffitt is President, PR Medical Resource Corporation, a veteran-owned small business providing strategic supply chain management and distribution in healthcare. He is also a paramedic/firefighter in Wilmington, NC. He started with DePuy/Johnson & Johnson as a sales representative for medical devices and orthopedic implants. Since 2002, Sam has continued in medical device sales, working for several start-ups and as an entrepreneur. He started his public safety career while a junior at UNC-Wilmington, working for the local fire department and the EMS agency. He has remained  committed to the fire service and currently leads several state and federal special operations teams, specializing in wilderness search and rescue.

Sam holds a B.S in Business Marketing from the UNC–Wilmington and a Master’s in Public Health &  Homeland Security from the Penn. State’s Hershey School of Medicine, and a MBA in International Business from UNC-Chapel Hill. His research interests focus on marketing and consumer behavior as it relates to public safety, homeland security and disaster preparedness, and in assessing the economic impacts of such events.