Majid Mokhtari

• Resident Medical Officer in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Sydney University and University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia until 1994.
• Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, and Critical Care fellowships at NYU, Cornell-Weil and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, respectively.
• Management of critically ill ICU patients, in MICU, Trauma ICU, Cardiac Surgery ICU, and Neurosurgical ICUs.
• Consult service for pulmonary diseases on the floors.
• The main editor of the first critical care medicine fellowship training curriculum in 2002-2003.
• The main editor of the first critical care nurse training curriculum, at the masters level in 2007-2008.
• Mentoring residents, and fellows in Internal medicine, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine.
• Main ICU procedure training for the resident and fellow.
• Outpaitent pulmonary clinics, PFT lab work.
• Directing mortality/morbidity and RCA committees.
• Research council member of the university and two teaching hospitals.
• Hopsital infection control committee member.
• Clinical research in critical care, pulmonary, infectious, COVID-19, disease and vaccine, and ICU nutrition.
• Regular teaching sessions and lectures in mechanical ventilation, ARDS, COVID-19, Sepsis, Trauma, ICU care, Nutrition, and many other topics.
• Over 100 clinical update presentations for COVID-19 disease in a teaching hospital and the Ministry of Health.
• Community education in national radio and television, various areas such as air pollution, infection prevention, trauma prevention, and COVID-19.
• Active committee member and consultant to the Ministry of Health in hospital infection prevention, influenza, critical care medicine, COVID-19 scientific and vaccine development, and recently dengue fever national guideline reviewer.
• Medical school teaching (patients first and critical care encounters) to the third year medical students before their clinical rotations.
• Numerous presentations at national and international conferences in diverse fields such as ICU education, nutrition, trauma, sepsis, ARDS, mechanical ventilation, and many other topics for the last 2 decades.
• Faculty member and annual speaker at Emirate Critical Care Congress over the last 20 years.

A few areas of significant improvement in patient care and research are outlined below. For detailed clinical, research, and managerial activities, please refer to the full list on my main CV.

• Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia mimicking cancer. A work with Dr. Dian Stover of MSKCC in New york.
• Fiberoptic bronchoscopy in BMT patients in the era of CMV prophylaxis.
• Following the initiation of critical care training in the country, in two national studies, we showed marked reduction in ICU mortality and length of ICU stay in mechanically ventilated patients.
• Radiographic and pulmonary function diagnosis of constictive bronchiolitis in chronic patients who were exposed to sulfur mustard gas during Iran-Iraq war.
• In one of our earlier works on nutritional management of the critically ill patients, we showed a significant anti-inflammatory and reduction in gastric residual volume by adding ginger oil to the ICU patient's diet.
• During the COVID-19 surge, we demonstrated the possible efficacy of low-dose chest radiation in cytokine storm management.
• In our COVID-19 vaccine and ICU patients study, one of the largest of its kind, we analyzed different vaccines' effects on mortality and ICU length of stay.