Prof. Ahmed Salem BaHammam

Credentials:

• Professor of Thoracic Diseases and Sleep Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
• Consultant for Thoracic Diseases, Sleep Disorders, and Intensive Care, University Hospitals
• Head of the Board of Research Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
• Head of Thoracic Diseases Unit, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University
• Director of the University Sleep Disorder Center, King Khalid University Hospital
• Founder of Fundamental Critical Care Support in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and created the first cycle in the Middle East (1998)
• Founding member of the Saudi Thoracic Society
• Chairman of the American College of Chest Physicians in the Kingdom (2000-2006)
• Representative of the European Respiratory Society (October 2008 - Present)
• Member of Editorial Department for several medical journals like:

            - Annals of Thoracic Medicine

            - Annals of Saudi Medicine

            - Saudi Medical Journal

            - Frontiers in Neuroscience

• A columnist for the Riyadh Daily

Formal Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Medicine and General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University (Honors)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Internal Medicine
• Fellow of the Royal College of Internal Medicine, Edinburgh
• Arab Fellowship in Internal Medicine
• Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Sleep Disorders
• Fellow of The American College of Chest Physicians
• Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Thoracic Diseases
• European fellowship of Respiratory Diseases
• Fellow of the University of Manitoba (Canada) for Intensive Care
• European fellowship for Intensive Care
• A member of the American Academy for Sleep Medicine