BasemBAbdelmalakMD

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