BasemBAbdelmalakMD
Anesthesiology • Cleveland, OHAmbulatory Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
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Office
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44195Phone+1 800-223-2273- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Basem B. Abdelmalak, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F is a professor of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He leads Anesthesia Services for Bronchoscopic Surgery and is the Quality Improvement Officer and Director of the Center for Procedural Sedation implementing the anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation. He also frequently performs the Therapeutic Whole Lung Lavage procedure to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) and lipoid pneumonia patients.
Dr. Abdelmalak is board-certified in Anesthesiology and fellowship trained in Critical Care medicine. His many clinical interests include anesthesia for ENT and bronchoscopic surgery, difficult airway management. He recently served as a member of the ASA task forced that updated and published the 2022 ASA practice parameters for the management of the difficult airway.
He is also a part of the Anesthesiology Outcomes Research Department. His research interest is focused on the study of perioperative diabetes, insulin pumps, and hyperglycemia management. He has been the primary investigator of many research projects investigating these topics.
He served the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists as president in 2015, the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA), as a founding member, and president 2017-2019 and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) as president 2019-2020. Currently, he serves the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) as a member of the board of directors representing the State of Ohio, chair of the educational track subcommittee on Ambulatory Anesthesia and a member of both the Committee on Practice Management and Quality Management and Departmental Administration.
Dr. Abdelmalak was awarded the distinguished status of Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in 2017 and Fellow of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia in 2020.
He has received numerous honors and awards, including being named one of America’s Top Anesthesiologists according to the Consum
Education & Training
Cleveland Clinic FoundationFellowship, Critical Care Medicine, 2000 - 2001- Cleveland Clinic FoundationResidency, Anesthesiology, 1996 - 2000
Zagazig University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1992
Certifications & Licensure
OH State Medical License 1998 - 2025
IA State Medical License 1997 - 2000- American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Clinical Trials
- The Effects of Corticosteroids, Glucose Control, and Depth-of-Anesthesia on Perioperative Inflammation and Morbidity From Major Non-cardiac Surgery (Dexamethasone, Light Anesthesia and Tight Glucose Control (DeLiT Trial)) Start of enrollment: 2007 Jan 01
- Fospropofol for Sedation During Elective Awake Intubation Start of enrollment: 2011 Feb 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia Updated Consensus Statement on Perioperative Blood Glucose Management in Adult Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Undergoing Ambulatory ...Rodriguez, L. V., Niraja Rajan, Elizabeth W Duggan, Basem B Abdelmalak, Steven Butz, Leopoldo V Rodriguez, Mary Ann Vann, Girish P Joshi> ;Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2024 Mar 22
- 1 citationsPro-Con Debate: Should Critically Ill Patients Undergo Procedures at Bedside or in the Operating Room?Kunal Karamchandani, Matthew Evers, Travis Smith, Anthony Bonavia, Ranjit Deshpande, John C Klick, Basem B Abdelmalak> ;Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2023 Dec 1
- The Role of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Management of the Difficult Airway.Basem B Abdelmalak> ;Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2023 Dec 1
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Lectures
- Surgical Leadership Today and Tomorrow 2013Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Medical Education, Cleveland, Ohio - 9/25/2013
- 17th World Congress for Bronchology and 17th World Congress for Broncheosophagology 2012World Association for Bronchology, Cleveland, Ohio - 6/15/2012
- Difficult Airway and the ENT SurgeonsCleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. - 10/14/2014
Press Mentions
Meet Dr. Leopoldo Rodriguez, the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesiology's President-Elect — 4 Things to KnowOctober 22nd, 2019
Standardizing Procedural Sedation Across a Large Healthcare SystemMarch 22nd, 2019
What Lung Washing Looks LikeSeptember 19th, 2016- Join now to see all
Hospital Affiliations
Cleveland ClinicCleveland, Ohio
External Links
- ENT Anesthesia Textbookhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/anesthesia-for-otolaryngologic-surgery/21D88D1BA50E7EC03C0556894B4C0515
- Airway Management Textbookhttps://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Airway-Management-Illustrated-Case-Based/dp/1316601358
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