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

• 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 (9)

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. 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 
2. 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  
3. 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 
4. 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 
5. 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. 
6. 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 
7. 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 
8. 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 
9. 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