S. Ward Casscells

S. Ward "Trip" Casscells[1] (March 18, 1952 – October 14, 2012)[2] was an American cardiologist who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq and later was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

[3] Among other honors, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Army's Order of Military Medical Merit, and the General Maxwell Thurman Award.

Samuel Ward Casscells III was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Tower Hill School in 1970.

Casscells was board certified in internal medicine after completing his residency at Beth Israel Hospital from 1979 to 1983.

[9] After his death from prostate cancer at his home in Washington, D.C.,[1] the younger Casscells was interred next to his parents in Arlington National Cemetery on July 19, 2013.