Dr. Christina Riojas is currently working as a director at Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital. She is currently an Acute Care Surgeon in Texas. Her primary passion is surgery, and her life has been dedicated to becoming a trauma surgeon. After graduating high school at 17, she attended the University of Missouri, Kansas City, a six-year medical school. She was commissioned in the Army completed 6 years of General Surgery residency in Georgia, and became board-certified in General Surgery. For 3 years, she was a staff General Surgeon in North Carolina and deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, and Africa. In 2019, she became board-certified in Surgical Critical Care and she completed a two-year AAST Acute Care Surgery fellowship in North Carolina in 2020.