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