Curriculum Vitae AHMED S. AWAD, M.D, CBA. 822 Marlowe Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ08003 Home: (856)751-1876 Cell: (201)310-8210 Email: Ahwad1900@gmail.com Medical License New Jersey, unlimited # MA 72301 New York, inactive # 216615 Pennsylvania, inactive # MD- 073103-L Indiana, unlimited # 01054554 Florida, inactive # ME 92111 Connecticut, inactive # 042975 Citizenship American citizen Current Position Associate Director of Cardiac Anesthesia, Director of Vascular Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Rowan University, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey. Current appointment Assistant Professor Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Previous Position Vice Chairman Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Jersey City Medical Center. Cardiac Anesthesia attending Jersey City medical center from 12/12/05 till 03/31/2008 Director of PACU Cooper University Hospital 2008-2012 Chief Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, UMDNJ Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey. May 2004- November 2005 Postgraduate Training Acting Chairman Department of Anesthesia, Atlantic City Medical Center. October 2003- February 2004 Board certified Cardiac Anesthesia Attending Atlantic City Medical Center. July 2001- April 2004 July 2000-June 2001 Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. October 2000-Nov.2000
Education Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Children s Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, MA. July 1999-June 2000 Chief Resident, Dept. of Anesthesia, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. July 1997-June 2000 Residency, Anesthesia, New York University school of Medicine, New York, NY. July 1996-June1997 Transitional Internship, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ. February 1993-Dec.1994 ER Physician at National Guard Polyclinic Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia. Sept. 1992-Jan.1993 Surgery Resident at Sharm El Sheikh Hospital South Sinai, Egypt. Sept. 1989-Sept.1992 Surgery Resident at Nasser Institute Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. March 1988-Sept.1989 General Practitioner at Rural Sector Unites, Cairo, Egypt. March 1987-Feb.1988 Transitional Internship, Ain Shams University School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. o Board certified Anesthesiologist April 2001 Recertified 2011 o TEE certified April 2004 Recertified 2014 o Certificate of business administration CBA by The American Society of Anesthesiology January 2004-2005 o Passed oral Anesthesia Board Exam in April 2001 o Passed written Anesthesia Board Exam in July 2000 o USMLE step 3, score 77. o USMLE step 2, score 86. o USMLE step 1, score 84. o FRCS course, Edinburgh, United Kingdom o Ain Shams University, School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, M.B.B.ch. degree. Memberships: American Society of Anesthesiology. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia. American Society of Echocardiography. Experience: 1. Minimally invasive port-access cardiac surgery with ability to place coronary sinus catheter for valves and CABG 2. Started new cardiac program in Atlantic City medical center and I was the Cardiac Anesthesiologist for over 300cases out of 500 cases done from July 23 rd, 2001 to Nov 2004.
3. Experience with OPCAB, which exceed 90% of CABG cases at Jersey City Medical Center. Moreover, about 40% OF CABG in Cooper University Hospital 4. Experience with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for Ascending Aortic Aneurysms repair. AWARDS: Teacher of the year 2010 at Cooper University Hospital Chief Resident Department of Anesthesia NYU school of Medicine New York, NY HOSPITAL COMMITTEES: Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee 05/08 to now Search Committee for the Chairman of Anesthesia Cooper University Hospital 2015 SOCIETY COMMITTEES: Moderator and Facilitator Medically Challenging Cases American Society of Anesthesiology since 2011 Society of Cardiac Anesthesia Newsletter Committee from March 2015 till now Member of Anesthesia &Analgesia Reviewer Board TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervision and teaching of Medical Students Supervision and education of Student Registered Nurse of Anesthesiology Oversight and teaching of Anesthesia Residents Supervision of Certified Registered Nurse of Anesthesiology PUBLICATIONS Abstracts/Posters Unexpected left atrial thrombus after AVR and atrial ligation with AtriClip a clip should TEE be used routinely after it is a clip deployment Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesia (SCA) meeting. Case report presentation at SCA, April 2016. General Anesthesia Should Be Routinely Used in All Patients Undergoing TAVR. Available at this website. (http://scahq.org/sca3/newsletters/2015oct/_pro.html). Severe Mitral Regurgitation after Mini AVR.Poster presentation at ASA, 2015. Lung Isolation in a difficult airway. Poster presentation at ASA, 2015. Dodson GM, Bentley WE 4 th, Awad A, Muntazar M, Goldberg ME. (2014). Isolated perioperative hypertension: clinical implications & contemporary treatment strategies. Curr Hypertens Review, 10(1), 31-6. Muhammad Muntazar, M.D., Marc C. Torjman, Ph.D., Ahmed Awad, M.D., Robyn Tarpley, M.S., Ashley Shapiro, B.A., Michael Rosenbloom, M.D., Richard Highbloom, M.D., Sriharsha Vajjala, M.D., Michael E. Goldberg, M.D.(Oct,2012). Intraoperative and Postoperative Whole Blood NGAL Values Are Predictive of the Severity of Acute Kidney Injury American Society of Anesthesiology. Abstract. Ben-Jacob, Talia; Awad, Ahmed, M.D. (Oct 17, 2011). American The Medically Challenging Cases; Anesthetic Management of a Coagulopathic Patient Undergoing Percutaneous Extraction of a Large ICD Lead Thrombus. American Society of Anesthesiology.
Muhammad Muntazar, M.D., Marc C. Torjman, Ph.D., Ahmed Awad, M.D., George Dy, B.Sc., Michael E. Goldberg, M.D.(Oct,2011). Systolic Blood Pressure Variability during Cardiac Surgery and Post-Operative Acute Kidney Injury. American Society of Anesthesiology Abstract. Awad AS, Goldberg ME. (Aug 2010). The role of clevidipine butyrate in the treatment of acute hypertension in the critical care setting. A review Vasc Health Risk Manag, 457-64. Muhammad Muntazar, MD, Marc C Torjman, Ph.D., Ahmed Awad, MD. And Michael E Goldberg, MD. (Oct.2010). Intraoperative NGAL is predictive of acute renal insufficiency in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Abstract presented American Society of Anesthesiology. Since 2010 present. Editor in Chief continually updating published educational website for cardiac anesthesia. www.cardiacanesthesiaworld.com RESEARCH coinvestigator IRB #: 16 004 study title: a prospective nonrandomized, pilot study combating Aortic valve area estimates drive it from right heart catheterization data with estimates based on Cheetah NICOM assessment of cardiac output during left heart catheterization IRB approved research Coinvestigator PQRS on line, a study in progress. IRB approved research Coinvestigator Cytosorbant REFRESH study in progress (Sponsored Study) PEER REVIEWER A&A (Anesthesia & Analgesia) Sep 22, 2010 to the study Acupuncture in critically ill patients improves delayed gastric emptying - a randomized controlled trial PRECEPTORSHIP COURSE: Management of Hypertension in the PACU post anesthesia Care unit to the Medicines Company 2011-2016 held at Cooper Hospital Cooper Resident Lectures Echo rounds Knobology Echo rounds Evaluation of Mitral valve Echo rounds Evaluation of Right ventricle Anesthesia Machine and Breathing circuit Cardiac Anesthesia simplified May 30 th, 2016 Cooper Grand Round Lectures Lecture on Recent Advances in TEE Techniques (TAVR) Sept.22, 2015
Update on TEE Jan 21, 2014 Anesthesia for Noninvasive Vascular procedure March 20, 2012 Blood Transfusion and Fibrinolytic Feb 22, 2011