Wael Al-Husami

Wael Al-Husami
Wael Al-Husami
Born	Wael Fahed Al-Husami Amman, Jordan
Education	University of Jordan Cornell University Lahey Clinic
Occupation	Interventional cardiologist
Known for	SAMS
Medical career
Profession	Interventional Cardiology
Field	Cardiology
Institutions	Tufts University
Research	Interventional Cardiology Vascular Medicine Varicose Veins

Wael Fahed Al-Husami is a Jordanian cardiologist and interventional cardiologist, scientist and medical educator at Tufts University and a faculty member at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, and a faculty Member at BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship - Harvard Medical School. Wael Al-Husami is also a visiting professor of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Early life and education

Al-Husami received his bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Jordan in 1996. Afterwards, he worked as a physician at Al-Basheer Hospital in Amman then completed his residency in internal medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, vascular medicine and endovascular peripheral intervention at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts through the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Career

Al-Husami has more than 20 years of experience in the medical field as a physician, executive, and teacher. He is an interventional cardiologist, Medical Director of International Health and a senior member of the executive health team of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, a nonprofit, physician-led academic medical center in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Dr. Al-Husami is widely known for his extensive experience in healthcare leadership, international health and business development.

He served as a Senior Medical Quality Expert in the customer protection unit for the Dubai Health Authority, the governing body and regulator of Dubai Healthcare City. Al-Husami's clinical leadership roles include having served as Medical Director for Hospital Medicine for the Prima CARE-Steward Health Care Network, Cardiac Cath Lab Director at Steward HFH hospital, as well as a Senior Physician Expert and Medical Director for Executive Health Resources, which provides compliance solutions to more than 2,000 hospitals and health systems across the US.

Furthermore, he established a unique clinical nursing program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in partnership with multiple universities in Massachusetts and the Middle East, and serves as a board member of New England chapter The Syrian American Medical Society and member of the cardiology committee of SAMS, a global medical relief non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works on providing a wide range of voluntary medical services and relief programs in Syria and beyond.

He has conducted a plethora of research in cardiovascular disease, and his work has been published in a variety of medical journals including Journal of Invasive Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, Endovascular Today, Journal of Thoracic Disease and American College of Physicians

Selected publications

Al-Husami's have several important publications in his field include:

• " Single-center experience with the TandemHeart percutaneous ventricular assist device to support patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention", Journal of Invasive Cardiology (2008)
• " Percutaneous repair of a pseudoaneurysm associated with coarctation of the aorta", Journal of Invasive Cardiology (2008)
• " Qualitative coronary artery calcium assessment on CT lung screening exam helps predict first cardiac events", Journal of Thoracic Disease (2017)
• " Angiotensin II Administration in Patients with COVID-19 Shock", Critical Pathways in Cardiology (2020)