Sherif Afifi, MD, FCCM, FCCP

- Chief, Section of Critical Care Medicine
- Medical Director, Cardiovascular ICU
- Program Director, CCM Fellowship Program
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Training / Education

Undergraduate
East Tennessee State University (Biology & Chemistry)

Medical
Cairo University Faculty of Medicine (Cairo, Egypt)

Residency
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Research Fellowship
Duke University Medical Center (Hyperbaric Medicine)

Clinical Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Critical Care Medicine & Cardiac Anesthesia)

Awards, Honors, & Distinctions

Awards

Best Teacher Award, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 2004Best Teacher Award, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 2003Physician Recognition Award, American Medical Association, 1999

Academic Resident Award, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1993

Honors

Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1999

Professional and Scientific Service

• Guest Editor, Problems in Anesthesia, 2000

• Manuscript Reviewer for Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Medical Science Monitor

• Committee on Patient Safety, Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Instructor, Fundamentals of Critical Care, Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Bylaws Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Reviewer, Abstracts, Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Critical Care Medicine Journal

• Reviewer, Abstracts,International Anesthesia Research Society

• Abstract Reviewer, Critical Care Medicine, International Anesthesia Research Society

Research & Bibliography

Original Contributions

Afifi S, Itani M, Tantawy H. Advances in Mechanical Ventilation: Technology and clinical strategies. (Accepted 2005) Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain.Philadelphia. 

Mathew JP, Fontes ML, Garwood S, Davis E, White WD, McCloskey G, Fitch JCK, Afifi S, Lee DL, Kraker P, Rafferty TD, Barash PG, Gillam L, Prokop E. Transesophageal Echocardiography Interpretation: A Comparative Analysis Between Cardiac Anesthesiologists and Primary Echocardiographers Anesth Analg 2002 94: 302-309Afifi S. Lung protective ventilation strategies. Sem Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth, 2002; 6(3):259-269Afifi S. Cerebraspinal fluid drainage during aortic surgery: A PRO Argument. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2002 16(5):643-9, 2002

Afifi S. Review of allergic reactions in the peri-operative period. Egyptian Med J, 2001; 9:22-28

Afifi S, Hines R. Update: Pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular function, pathophysiology and pharmacologic management.  Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain: Pharmacology Update 2001. Ronald Katz, ed., WB Saunders:  20(2):118, 2001

Books

Post-operative Complications, in Problems in Anesthesia, Guest Editor, Lippincott-Raven Publishers. Vol (12), Number (3), July, 2000.

Chapters

Afifi S, Nicholson G.  Allergic Reactions.  Anaesthesia and Critical Care Manual.  Cunningham, A.J., Brull, S. (eds), (In Press).

Afifi S.  Basic principles of mechanical ventilation.  Anaesthesia and Critical Care Manual.  Cunningham A.J., Brull, S. (eds), (In Press).

Afifi S, Perrino A. Physical principles of two-dimensional echocardiography. In ‘A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography’. Reeves ST, Perrino AC (eds), Lippincott (In Press).

Afifi S, Rosenbaum S. Does perioperative hyperglycemia increase the risk of postoperative complications? In ‘Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology’. Fleisher LA (ed), WB Saunders. 2004; pp 172-180

Afifi S. Practical physical principles of echocardiography. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Educational Program, 2002

Afifi S. Impact of Intraoperative Echo on Changes in Cardiac Surgical Plan. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Educational Program, 2001.Afifi S, Agrawal S. Predicting postoperative respiratory failure. Problems in Anesthesia, Fleisher L.A., Prough, D.S., (eds).  Lippincott-Raven, 2000; 12:233-241

Abstracts

Rukhlyada Y, Afifi S. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for smoke inhalation, MARC, 2005

Gotimokula A, Afifi S. Role of Drotrecogin Alfa (human Recombinant Protein C) in severe sepsis with multi-organ failure – a case report, MARC 2005

Escobar A, Modak R, Garwood S, Afifi S, Davis L, Hines R, Griffin M. Direct and transesophageal echocardiographic measures of pulmonary blood flow changes elicited by nitroglycerin. Anesth Analg 2002

Afifi S, Podgoreanu M, Davis L, Sivarajan M, Barash P, Harris S. Is the routine use of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) justified? Anesth Analg 2000; 90: SCA82

Invited Presentations

Midwest Anesthesia Conference (MAC), Lecturer, Chicago, IL, May 20, 2005

American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Clinical Forum Pane, Las Vegas, NV, October 26, 2004

Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Problem-Based Learning Discussion, Baltimore, MD, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005

Egyptian Society of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Annual Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, 2003, 2005

International Anesthesia Research Society, Moderator, 2003, 2004

Cardiac Surgery Symposium, Yale University School of Medicine, Groton & Mashantucket, CT, October, 2001, 2002                       

Moderator & Clinical Forum Panel, American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2001

Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists, Oakbrook, IL, 2001, 2003

email: s-afifi@northwestern.edu