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September 04, 2008

About Michel Haddad MD Joins the Department of Surgery

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Michel Haddad, M.D., Joins the Department of Surgery at Jefferson

Michel Haddad, M.D., recently joined the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.  He was also named an assistant professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Haddad specializes in cardiac surgery and critical care medicine.

Dr. Haddad received his medical degree in 1999 from the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.  He received a Bachelor of Science degree in honors physiology from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.  Dr. Haddad completed a residency in cardiac surgery at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  He completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, and a sub-specialized cardiac surgery clinical fellowship in thoracic transplantation/mechanical circulatory support and minimal access cardiac surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Dr. Haddad spent many years building his professional experience in Canada.  Since 2006, he has served as an attending physician at the Hotel-Dieu Grace General Hospital in Windsor, Ontario, in the department of critical care medicine.  He was also an attending physician in critical care medicine at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Services Center in Thunder Bay, Ontario; and a trauma team leader at the London Health Sciences Center in London, Ontario, in the Critical Care and Trauma Center.

Dr. Haddad is board certified in cardiac surgery as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC), as well as in critical care medicine. In addition to FRCSC, he is a member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Haddad also holds a Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the University of Ottawa and has compiled significant research there since 1993 in the areas of physiology, cardiology and cardiac surgery.  He has written 20 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters with special interest in heart failure, transplants and mechanical circulatory support.

As an educator, Dr. Haddad has experience teaching epidemiology and cardiology to medical students as a part of the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa and at the University of Western Ontario and University Hospital in London, Ontario.   

Dr. Haddad is a resident of Philadelphia.

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Ed Federico
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Phone: (215) 955-6300
Published: 9/4/2008