Adil Haider

Dr. Adil Haider, MD, MPH is an American trauma surgeon,^[1]public health researcher and the Kessler Director of Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.^[2] He is also the co-founder of Doctella, an online application to enhance doctor-patient communication.^[3]

Dr. Adil Haider pioneered the work on racial disparities in trauma care and is considered one of the experts in inequities related to healthcare in United States.^[4]

Early life and education

Adil Haider, an American of Pakistani descent, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He went to Pakistan to complete his undergraduate from Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, Pakistan and then medical education from the Aga Khan University- Medical College.^[5]

Medical practice

Adil Haider is a board-certified trauma and acute care surgeon. He earned his medical degree from the Aga Khan University in 1998. Furthermore, he trained in public health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and received his MPH in 2000. Then he went on to complete his surgical residency at New York Medical College in 2005 and later joined Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he competed his fellowships in surgical critical care (2006) and trauma and acute care surgery (2007).^[6]

From 2007 to 2014 Adil Haider was working at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a trauma and critical care surgeon.^[7] Currently he is affiliated with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Academic Appointments

• Recorder and Program Committee Chair for Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) (2015–Present).^[8]
• Deputy Editor for JAMA Surgery (2015–Present).^[9]
• Kessler Director for the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) (2014–Present).^[10]
• Surgical Education Chair and Executive Council Member for Society of University Surgeons (SUS) (2014–Present).^[11]
• Co-Director for the Howard-Hopkins Surgical Outcomes Collaborative (2008–Present).^[12]
• Director for the Center for Surgery Trials and Outcomes Research (CSTOR) (2012-2014).^[13]
• Associate Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2011-2014).^[14]

Awards

• Recipient of Diversity Leadership Award in 2014 from President, Johns Hopkins University.^[15]
• Recipient of Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Promising Investigator Award from American College of Surgeons, in 2013.^[16]
• Recipient of International Surgical Week First Prize from International Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Intensive Care (IATSIC), in 2013.^[17]
• Recipient of C. James Carrico Fellowship from the American College of Surgeons, in 2011.^[18]

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