Samantha Caruso MS, LAT

Samantha Caruso MS, LAT is one of the athletic trainers on Dr. Paci’s team at Orlin and Cohen Orthopedic Group. She graduated from Stony Brook University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training. While at Stony Brook she served as president of the Stony Brook chapter of Iota Tua Alpha, the athletic training honor society, and graduated with leadership awards from Stony Brook’s Health Science Association. She continued her education at Adelphi University as a graduate assistant, receiving a Master of Science in Sports Management with concentration in collegiate athletic administration in 2018. While at Adelphi she spent 5 years as an assistant athletic training working with their women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse teams where she served on multiple NCAA championship host committees and assisted in drafting and the implementation of Adelphi's ‘Return to Sport” plan during the Covid-19 pandemic. She returned to Stony Brook as an adjunct clinical professor in the summer of 2021 to instruct second year master’s students in a core curriculum class, Advanced Therapeutic Interventions, that focused on evidence-based rehabilitation practices for surgical and non-surgical sports medicine injuries. She joined the Orlin and Cohen Orthopedic group as a Practice Athletic Trainer in the fall of 2024 with 5 years of experience as a physician extender in the outpatient orthopedic setting.

Samantha was born and raised in Smithtown, New York, where she currently resides with her husband. In her free time, she can be found at a local beach in the warmer months, in the kitchen cooking for her friends and family, or at the gym getting a lift in. Her favorite part of being an athletic training is advocating for thoughtful training, rehabilitation, recovery and nutrition practices for not only athletes but the physically active, and aging population as well.