Imad Haddad, MD

Associate Professor - Pediatrics

Education

• Undergraduate: American University of Beirut B.S. 1980
• Medical School: American University of Beirut M.D. 1984
• Residency (foreign): Pediatric; American University of Beirut 1984-6
• Residency: Pediatrics; St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix Arizona 1986-89
• Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care; University of Minnesota, 1989-92

Positions Held

• Associate Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Children's Hospital of Alabama 1992-97
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1992-97
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, 1997-
  • (75% research - 25% patient care and teaching)

Clinical Interests

• Resident and Medical Student Education

Research Interests

• Nitric Oxide induced cellular injury
• Alveolar Epithelium physiology

Professional Societies

• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• The Oxygen Society
• American Thoracic Society
• Society of Pediatric Research

Publications and Lectures

Grant Support

• Viking Children's Fund: "Effects of furosemide on pulmonary function in neonatal lung disease" Role: Principal Investigator. 1990-92
• Child Health Research Center-: NIH P30 HD28831 "Reactive nitrogen species injury to pulmonary surfactant" Role: Principal Investigator.1993 - 1996
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation -Z 891 "Nitric oxide toxicity during gene therapy" Role: Principal Investigator. 1/95 - 12/96
• Viking Children's Funds: Nitric oxide-mediated modification of surfactant protein A (SP-A) 1997-1998
  • Budget: $9,500
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Minnesota Medical Foundation: Macrophage-derived nitric oxide in idiopathic pneumonia syndrome post marrow transplantation1998-1999
  • Budget: $7,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• American Heart Association: Cardiopulmonary injury in graft-versus-host disease after marrow transplantation: role of monocyte-derived nitric oxide 1998-2001
  • Budget: $84,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• 1998-2000 Irvine McQuarrie Research Scholar: Role of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species during lung injury post bone marrow transplantation
  • Budget: $50,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• 2000-2001 Viking Children's Fund: Role of surfactant protein A during lung inflammation and repair after transplantation
  • Budget: $10,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• 2000-2003 Johnie Murphy Career Investigator Award- American Lung Association Nitration reactions and lung repair after transplantation
  • Budget: $105,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
• Pending NIH-LHBI R01 Role of SP-A in inflammation after allogeneic BMT
  • Role: Principal Investigator

Academic Activities

• Instructor - Medical School, "Respiratory Physiology"
• Instructor - Graduate Students of Physiology
• Member, Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (RCMB) American Thoracic Society Assembly Program Committee 1999

Editorial Board Memberships

• 1994 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biochemica, Biophysica Acta
• 1994 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chest
• 1995 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Investigation
• 1995 Correspondent Reviewer, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
• 1996 Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Physiology
• Reviewer on a reverse site-visit on February 7,8,9 1995, to review a program project grant application from Harvard School of Public Health, Boston Massachusetts. The grant application is titled, Physical Determinants of Lung Parenchymal Function. Jeffrey J. Fredberg, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator.

Certification

• Licensure: Alabama and Minnesota
• American Board of Pediatrics1990, Recertification 1997
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine1994

Awards/Honors

• 1989 Outstanding Graduating Resident; St. Joseph's Hospital
• 1990 Fellow Teacher of the Year Award; University of Minnesota
• 1991 Fellow Teacher of the Year Award; University of Minnesota
• 1992 Fellow Teacher of the Year Award; University of Minnesota
• 1998 Irvine McQuarrie Research Scholar
• 2000 American Lung Association - Johnie Murphy Career Investigator Award

To get in contact with Dr. Haddad, call the Pediatric Critical Care office at (612) 626-2916 or you may e-mail him at the following address:

hadda003@tc.umn.edu

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