Department of Pediatrics

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
• Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015 - 2016
• Clinical Observer in Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Harvard University, 2016 - 2016

Licensure and Board Certification

• ECFMG certificate , 2009
• Pediatric Residency Completion - Washington University in St. Louis & St. Louis Children's Hospital , 2012
• Board certified in Pediatrics , 2013
• Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics , 2013
• MO, Missouri permanent medical license/Physician and surgeon , 2014
• ACLS provider , 2016
• BLS provider , 2016
• PALS provider , 2016
• Pediatric Critical Care Boards , 2016

Honors

• 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

Recent Publications view all (7)

Publication Co-Authors

Matthew I. Goldsmith, M.D.

S. Paul Hmiel, M.D., Ph.D.

Mary E. Hartman, M.D., M.P.H.

Dennis J. Dietzen, Ph.D.

Allan Doctor, M.D.

Philip C. Spinella, M.D., FCCM

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Ahmed, Said, M.D., Ph.D.

1. 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 
2. 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 
3. 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. 
4. 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 
5. 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 
6. 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 
7. 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