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
• 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

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2009ECFMG certificate
• 2012Pediatric Residency Completion - Washington University in St. Louis & St. Louis Children's Hospital
• 2013 - PresBoard certified in Pediatrics
• 2013Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics
• 2014 - PresMO, Missouri permanent medical license/Physician and surgeon
• 2016 - PresACLS provider
• 2016 - PresBLS provider
• 2016 - PresPALS provider
• 2016 - PresPediatric 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 view all (23)

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

Kristin Guilliams, MD MSCI

John C. Lin, M.D.

Philip C. Spinella, M.D., FCCM

Avihu Z. Gazit, M.D.

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. 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  
2. 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 
3. 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 
4. 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 
5. 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 
6. 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 
7. 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 
8. 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 
9. 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 
10. 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 
11. 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 
12. 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 
13. 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 
14. 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 
15. 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 
16. 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 
17. 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 
18. 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 
19. 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 
20. 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 
21. 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 
22. 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 
23. 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