Sherif Mossad, MD, has been a member of Staff in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Cleveland Clinic since 2000. He served as an Associate Staff member from 1998 to 2000 and as a Clinical Associate from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Mossad is also Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Mossad obtained his medical degree in 1988 from the University of London. In 1988-1989, he served as House Officer at Cairo University Hospital, Egypt. He completed a rotating internship in child psychiatry at the Egypt Child Psychiatry Clinic, and performed community service for the Ministry of Health, Cairo, from 1989-1990. He was a Resident in internal medicine at Cairo University Hospital from 1989-1990. Dr. Mossad also completed internal medicine residency from 1990 to 1993, and infectious disease fellowship, from 1993 to 1996, at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic

Infectious Disease
Cleveland, OH USA
1996

Residency - Cleveland Clinic

Internal Medicine
Cleveland, OH USA
1993

Internship - Cleveland Clinic

Internal Medicine
Cleveland, OH USA
1991

Medical School - University of Cairo Faculty of Medicine

Cairo Egypt
1988

Undergraduate - University of London

London United Kingdom
1981

• Internal Medicine
• Internal Medicine- Infectious Disease

• Graduated from medical school with "Very good with honors"
• Peskind Memorial Award for outstanding thesis, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1995
• Peskind Memorial Award for outstanding thesis, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1996
• F. Merlin Bumpus, PhD, Junior Investigator Award in Clinical Research, 1996
• Life member,Who’s Who in Medicine (# 125117)
• Honored member, Strathmore’s Who’s Who in Medicine, 2002-3
• Award of Excellence, Cleveland Clinic World Class Service Idea # 1715, “Refer to Physician Profiles on Appointment Reminders,” 11/2003
• Quest for Quality Award, for project “Missed Opportunities for Pneumococcal Vaccination,” 2003
• International Health Professional of the Year, International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England, 2004
• Honorable mention, Quest for Quality Award, for project “Waiting Time in the Infectious Diseases Outpatient Area (The Rooming Project),” 2004

• Transplant infectious diseases rotation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (11/1995)
• Eye and ear infectious diseases rotation at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (11/1995)
• Pediatric infectious diseases rotation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (12/1995)
• Tropical medicine rotation at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3), Cairo, Egypt (3-4/1995)

• American Medical Association
• American College of Physicians
• Infectious Disease Society of America
• American Society of Transplantation
• Infectious Disease Society of Ohio

• Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Clinical Trials
• Heart Transplantation
• Kidney Transplantation
• Liver Transplantation
• Lung Transplantation
• Organ Transplantation

• Cellulitis
• Common Cold
• Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
• Fungal Infections
• Influenza (Flu)
• Kidney donation
• Pneumonia
• Shingles (Varicella-Zoster Virus)
• Urinary Tract Infection

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