Dr. Ahmed Shalabi, member of the ACE editorial board, joins Dr. Adam Striker to discuss medical ethics in mass casualty situations, a topic highlighted in the 21B issue. Listen in as they discuss the role of ethics in managing mass casualties, what health care organizations can do to prepare, issues anesthesiologists face in a crisis, and more. Recorded September 2024.
Ahmed Shalabi, MBBCh, MSc, FCAI, is a liver transplant and vascular anesthesiologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Shalabi is passionate about anesthesia for complex endovascular aortic repairs, aortic arch repairs, and multiorgan transplant.
Dr. Shalabi received his medical degree from Alexandria University, Egypt. He later completed his anesthesia training at Alexandria University Egypt and University of Lille, France. He also completed a liver transplant fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Shalabi has lectured in several National and International meetings on Anesthesia for Complex Aortic repairs.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
Date of last update: October 8, 2024