Raed A. Dweik, M.D. is the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Program in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine. Dr. Dweik's clinical interests are in pulmonary hypertension, asthma, critical care, and chronic beryllium disease. He has a joint appointment in the department of Pathobiology in the Lerner Research Institute (LRI) and is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Dweik's research interests are in exhaled breath analysis and the role of nitric oxide in cardiopulmonary physiology and disease especially pulmonary hypertension and asthma. He served on several related national and international panels and committees including: the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Chronic Beryllium Disease Diagnosis and Management Committee, the Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly's Spirometry Web Page Project, the ATS taskforce to Standardize measurement of Nitric Oxide (NO) in exhaled breath, the ATS- European Respiratory Society (ERS) Working Group on measuring exhaled gases in mechanically ventilated patients, and the Joint ATS-ERS taskforce on Exhaled Breath Condensate (EBC).
Dr. Dweik has been the recipient of many awards including The Best Doctors in America, America's Top Physicians, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Dr. Dweik has been the recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007-08 and the Pulmonary Fellowship Program in 2006-07. In 2007, he also received the Scholarship in Teaching Award from Case Western Reserve University.
He serves on several NIH review panels including the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Special Emphasis Panel for the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (K08) and the Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Awards (K23). He is also a member of the American Heart Association's Cardiorenal, Lung, and Respiration peer review group.
Dr. Dweik is an editorial board member of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, the Open Nitric Oxide Journal, and the Journal of Breath Research of which he is a Founding Member. He is also a journal reviewer for several peer-reviewed publications including: The Lancet, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Thorax, American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cell Molecular Physiology, European Respiratory Journal, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Respiratory Diseases, Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), and the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC). He is a member of the American Thoracic society (ATS) and a founding member of the International Association for Breath Research (IABR).
After receiving his medical degree from the University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Dweik completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Miami Valley Hospital and Wright State University in Dayton, OH. He completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at The Cleveland Clinic.
