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Ahmed, Said, M.D., Ph.D.
said_a@wustl.edu
Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
phone: (314) 454-2527
Education
MSc,
Excellent with honors
,
Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
,
2004
PhD,
Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
,
2010
MBBCh,
Excellent with honors
,
Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine
,
2000
Training
Resident of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine
,
2001
-
2004
Pediatric Flexible Bronchoscopy, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital
,
2005
-
2005
Pediatric research fellow, Washington University in St Louis
,
2007
-
2008
Resident of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital
,
2010
-
2012
Clinical Fellow - Pediatric Intensive Care, Washington University in St. Louis
,
2012
-
2015
Advanced training apprenticeship, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Washington University in St. Louis
,
2015
-
2016
Clinical Observer in Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Harvard University
,
2016
-
2016
Academic Medical Leadership Program for Physicians and Scientists, Washington University School of Medicine, Olin School of Business and BJC Healthcare
,
2018
-
2018
Introduction to Biomedical Data Science I, Washington University in St. Louis, Institute of Informatics
,
2020
-
2020
Introduction to Biomedical Data Science II, Washington University in St. Louis, Institute of Informatics
,
2021
-
2021
Introduction to Biomedical Informatics I, Washington University in St. Louis, Institute of Informatics
,
2021
-
2021
Licensure and Board Certification
2009
ECFMG certificate
2012
Pediatric Residency Completion - Washington University in St. Louis & St. Louis Children's Hospital
2013
-
Pres
Board certified in Pediatrics
2013
Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics
2014
-
Pres
MO, Missouri permanent medical license/Physician and surgeon
2016
-
Pres
ACLS provider
2016
-
Pres
BLS provider
2016
-
Pres
PALS provider
2016
-
Pres
Pediatric Critical Care Boards
Honors and Awards
Pediatric section travel award - Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress for abstract
,
2014
In-training section travel award - Society of Critical Care Medicine - for abstract
,
2014
Young Professional Abstract Award at the 8th World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care
,
2016
Sixth Annual Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Biology Young Investigators Forum - Abstract
,
2019
2019 Excellence in Research Grant - Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Biology Young Investigator Forum
,
2019
Recent Publications
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Publication Co-Authors
Tara M. Neumayr, M.D.
Matthew I. Goldsmith, M.D.
Christopher McPherson
S. Paul Hmiel, M.D., Ph.D.
James A.J. Fitzpatrick, PhD
Mary E. Hartman, M.D., M.P.H.
Anthony W. Orvedahl, M.D., Ph.D.
Dennis J. Dietzen, Ph.D.
Edon J Rabinowitz
Michael Chomat
Brian Gage
Jennifer N. Avari Silva, M.D.
Kristin Guilliams, MD MSCI
John C. Lin, M.D.
Avihu Z. Gazit, M.D.
Ahmed S. Said, Elaine Cooley, Elizabeth A. Moore, Kiran Shekar, Timothy M. Maul, Ramanathan Kollengode, and Bishoy Zakhary .
Development of a Standardized Assessment of Simulation-based Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Educational Courses
ATS Scholar
.
2022.
doi:
10.34197/ats-scholar.2021-0068OC
Rabinowitz, Edon; Kulp, Blaire; Lahart, Michael; Avari Silva, Jennifer; Nath, Dilip; Dillon, Patrick; Said, Ahmed S.
Use of Aminocaproic Acid with Bivalirudin for Hemostatic Management of Abdominal Surgery for Neonate on Extracorporeal Support
ASAIO
.
2022.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001736
PMID:
35439195
Lahart, Michael; Said, Ahmed S.
Extracorporeal Anticoagulation With Bivalirudin; Is the Best Still to Come?
ASAIO
.
2022.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001705
PMID:
35439195
Michael A Lahart, Emily L Burns, Madison M Streb, Hongjie Gu, Tara M Neumayr, Aaron M Abarbanell, Ahmed S Said.
Impact of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy on Bivalirudin Dosing in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
ASAIO
.
2022.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001681
PMID:
35239538
Kimberly P. Mills, Christopher C. McPherson, Ahmed S. Said, Michael A. Lahart.
Successful Use of Intravenous Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients
JPIC
.
2021.
doi:
10.1055/s-0041-1736335
Mateusz Puslecki, Marek Dabrowski, Marcin Ligowski, Bishoy Zakhary, Ahmed S Said, Kollengode Ramanathan, Elaine Cooley, Lukasz Puslecki, Sebastian Stefaniak, Piotr Ziemak, Ilona Kiel-Puslecka, Agata Dabrowska, Tomasz Klosiewicz, Maciej Sip, Radoslaw Zalewski, Malgorzata Ladzinska, Wojciech Mrowczynski, Piotr Ladzinski, Lidia Szlanga, Konrad Baumgart, Piotr Kupidlowski, Lukasz Szarpak, Marek Jemielity, Bartlomiej Perek.
Comprehensive assessment of a nationwide simulation-based course for artificial life support
PLOS One
.
2021;16
(10):
e0257162.
doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0257162
PMCID:
PMC8496826
PMID:
34618829
Rabinowitz, Edon J; Ouyang, Amy; Armstrong, Dustin R; Wallendorf, Michael; Said, Ahmed S..
Poor Reliability of Common Measures of Anticoagulation in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
ASAIO
.
2021.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001582
PMID:
34581287
Neel Shah, Ahmed S Said.
Extracorporeal Support Prognostication-Time to Move the Goal Posts?
Membranes
.
2021;11
(7):
537.
doi:
10.3390/membranes11070537
PMCID:
PMC8304743
PMID:
34357187
John C. Lin, Lauren M. Barron, Adam M. Vogel, Ryan M. Colvin, Sirine A. Baltagi, Allan Doctor, Avihu Z. Gazit, Mary Mehegan, Nicole O’Connor, Ahmed S. Said, Mark Shepard, Michael Wallendorf and Philip C. Spinella.
Context-Responsive Anticoagulation Reduces Complications in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Front. Cardiovasc. Med
.
2021.
doi:
10.3389/fcvm.2021.637106
PMCID:
PMC8224528
PMID:
34179125
Michael R. Chomat, Ahmed S. Said, Jessica L. Mann, Michael Wallendorf, Alexandra Bickhaus, Mayte Figueroa.
Changes in Sedation Practices in Association with Delirium Screening in Infants After Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Pediatric Cardiology
.
2021.
doi:
10.1007/s00246-021-02616-y
PMID:
33891134
Farhan Zafar, Jennifer Conway, Mark S Bleiweis, Mohammed Al-Aklabi, Rebecca Ameduri, Aliessa Barnes, David W Bearl, Holger Buchholz, Stephanie Church, Nhue L Do, Vicky Duffy, John C Dykes, Pirooz Eghtesady, Lauren Fisher, Joshua Friedland-Little, Stephanie Fuller, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Kristen George, Jeffrey G Gossett, Eric R Griffiths, Massimo Griselli, Beth Hawkins, Osami Honjo, Aamir Jeewa, Anna Joong, Steven Kindel, Peter Kouretas, Angela Lorts, Desiree Machado, Katsuhide Maeda, Andrea Maurich, Lindsay J May, Patrick McConnell, Mary Mehegan, Michael Mongé, David L S Morales, Jenna Murray, Robert A Niebler, Matthew O'Connor, David M Peng, Christina Phelps, Joseph Philip, Michelle Ploutz, Michael Profsky, Allison Reichhold, David N Rosenthal, Ahmed S Said, Kurt R Schumacher, Ming-Sing Si, Kathleen E Simpson, Joshua Sparks, Jim St Louis, Marie E Steiner, Christina VanderPluym, Chet Villa, ACTION Learning Network Investigators.
Berlin Heart EXCOR and ACTION post-approval surveillance study report
J Heart Lung Transplant
.
2021;40
(4):
251-259.
doi:
10.1016/j.healun.2021.01.010
PMID:
33579597
Caren J Liviskie, Michael A Lahart, Nicole R O'Connor, Ahmed S Said, Christopher C McPherson.
Antithrombin Dose Optimization in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Infants
ASAIO
.
2021.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001340
PMID:
33528157
Sarah L. Bauer Huang, Ahmed S. Said, Christopher D. Smyser, John C. Lin, Kristin P. Guilliams, and R´ejean M. Guerriero.
Seizures Are Associated With Brain Injury in Infants Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
JCN
.
2020.
doi:
10.1177/0883073820966917
PMCID:
PMC8086759
PMID:
33112194
Edon J. Rabinowitz, Kailyn McGregor, Nicole R. O’Connor, Tara M. Neumayr, and Ahmed S. Said.
Systemic Hypertension in Pediatric Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
ASAIO
.
2020.
doi:
10.1097/MAT.0000000000001267
PMID:
33074862
Matthew R Schill, Matthew T Douds, Emily L Burns, Michael A Lahart, Ahmed S Said, Aaron M Abarbanell.
Is Anticoagulation With Bivalirudin Comparable to Heparin for Pediatric Extracorporeal Life Support? Results From a High-Volume Center
Artif Organs
.
2020.
doi:
10.1111/aor.13758
PMID:
32557733
Robert M. MacGregor, Ryan M. Antiel, Tasnim Najaf, Ahmed S. Said,Brad W. Warner, Mehul V. Raval, Baddr Shakhsheer.
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Pediatric Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019–Related Illness
PCCM
.
2020;21
(10):
893-897.
doi:
10.1097/PCC.0000000000002432
PMCID:
PMC7523473
PMID:
32427689
Ahmed S. Said, Kristin P. Guilliams, Melania M. Bembea.
Neurological Monitoring and Complications of Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support
Pediatric Neurology
.
2020.
doi:
10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.03.014
PMID:
32299748
Stephen C. Rogers, Laura B. Dosier, Timothy J. McMahon, Hongmei Zhu, David Timm, Hengtao Zhang, Joseph Herbert, Jacqueline Atallah, Gregory M. Palmer, Asa Cook, Melanie Ernst, Jaya Prakash, Mark Terng, Parhom Towfighi, Reid Doctor, Ahmed Said, Matthew S. Joens, James A. J. Fitzpatrick, Gabi Hanna, Xue Lin, Julie A. Reisz, Travis Nemkov, Angelo D’Alessandro, Allan Doctor.
Red blood cell phenotype fidelity following glycerol cryopreservation optimized for research purposes.
PLOS One
.
2018;13
(12).
doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0209201
PMID:
30576340
Ahmed S. Said, Mary E. McBride and Avihu Z. Gazit .
Successful preoperative bridge with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in three neonates with D-transposition of the great vessels and pulmonary hypertension
Cardiology in the Young
.
2018;1-3.
doi:
10.1017/S1047951118001038
PMID:
29991376
Shaan Amdani, Hannah Kim, Anthony Orvedahl, Audrey John, Ahmed Said and Kathleen Simpson.
Successful treatment of fulminant neonatal enteroviral myocarditis in monochorionic diamniotic twins with cardiopulmonary support, intravenous immunoglobulin and pocapavir.
BMJ Case Rep
.
2018.
doi:
10.1136/bcr-2017-224133
PMID:
29776940
Ahmed S. Said, Stephen C. Rogers and Allan Doctor.
Physiologic Impact of Circulating RBC Microparticles upon Blood-Vascular Interactions
Font. Physiol.
.
2018;8:1120.
doi:
10.3389/fphys.2017.01120
PMID:
29379445
Ahmed S. Said, Allan Doctor.
Influence of red blood cell-derived microparticles upon vasoregulation
Blood transfusion
.
2017;15:1-13.
doi:
10.2450/2017.0353-16
PMID:
28686154
Ahmed Said, Philip Spinella, Mary Hartman, Katherine Steffen, Ronald Jackups, Richard Holubkov, Michael Wallendorf, Allan Doctor..
RBC Distribution Width: Biomarker for Red Cell Dysfunction and Critical Illness Outcome?
Pediatr Crit Care Med.
.
2016.
doi:
10.1097/PCC.0000000000001017
PMID:
27832023
Arun Saini, Mary E. Hartman, Brian F. Gage, Ahmed Said, Avihu Z. Gazit, Pirooz Eghtesady, Umar S. Boston and Philip C. Spinella.
Incidence of Platelet Dysfunction by Thromboelastography-Platelet Mapping in Children Supported with ECMO: A Pilot Retrospective Study
Frontiers in Pediatrics
.
2016;3.
doi:
10.3389/fped.2015.00116
PMCID:
PMC4702183
PMID:
26779465
Said A, Rogers S, Doctor A.
Red cell physiology and signaling relevant to the critical care setting.
Curr Opin Pediatr
.
2015.
doi:
10.1097/MOP.0000000000000225
PMID:
25888155
Said A, Hmiel P, Goldsmith M, Dietzen D, Hartman ME.
Successful use of plasma exchange for profound hemolysis in a child with loxoscelism.
Pediatrics
.
2014;134
(5):
e1464-7.
doi:
10.1542/peds.2013-3338
PMID:
25349320
Said AS, Abd-Elaziz MM, Farid MM, Abd-ElFattah MA, Abdel-Monim MT, Doctor A.
Evolution of surfactant protein-D levels in children with ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Pediatr Pulmonol
.
2012;47
(3):
292-9.
doi:
10.1002/ppul.21548
PMID:
21901856
Rogers SC, Said A, Corcuera D, McLaughlin D, Kell P, Doctor A.
Hypoxia limits antioxidant capacity in red blood cells by altering glycolytic pathway dominance.
FASEB J
.
2009;23
(9):
3159-70.
doi:
10.1096/fj.09-130666
PMCID:
PMC2735367
PMID:
19417084
Last updated: 05/25/2022
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