Hassan Khouli, MD

Dr. Khouli is the Chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He has over 20 years of experience working in critical care medicine and pulmonary medicine. Dr. Khouli has special expertise in the evaluation and management of patients with complex critical illnesses including sepsis and septic shock, ARDS, multi-organ failure, and decision making at the end of life.

Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic at the end of 2017, Dr. Khouli was a Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the Chief of the Critical Care Division at Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, and the Chair of Medical Ethics for over 15 years. He is the 2017 recipient of the “Dr. Nathan Kase Innovations in Medical Education Award” from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Khouli was an early leader in the development of simulation training and he founded the Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospitals; one of the earliest centers in the U.S. to be accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Dr. Khouli has been an invited lecturer regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has received several government, private foundations, and industry research grants and has authored many peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters.

Dr. Khouli has been actively involved in public policy, including current service on the New York State Governor’s Task Force on Life and the Law (composed of individuals representing medicine, law, religion, philosophy, and bioethics), and the New York State Department of Health Sepsis Advisory Board. He has been elected to “Best Doctor in America” several years.

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
2017

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Mount Sinai -St. Lukes-Roosevelt
Pulmonary Medicine
New York, NY
1996

Fellowship - Harbor Hospital Center
Non-Accredited Interventional Pulmonology
Baltimore, MD
1996

Fellowship - Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center (UMDNJ)
Critical Care Medicine
Camden, NJ
1994

Residency - Atlanticare Regional Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Atlantic City, NJ United States
1992

Medical Education - Damascus University
Damascus, Syria,
1986

Certifications

Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease

Specialty Interests

Dr. Khouli has special expertise in the evaluation and management of patients with complex critical illnesses including sepsis and septic shock, ARDS, multi-organ failure, medical ethics and decision making at the end of life, medical education and training, outcome research.

Awards & Honors

Research & Publications

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