Speakers

Dr. Mohammad Faisal Malmstrom
Senior Consultant and Director of the Surgical Critical Care
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)



Dr Mohammad Faisal Malmstrom is a Senior Consultant and Director of the Surgical Critical Care at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)

 Dr Malmstrom did his basic medical training leading to a MD at University of Lund in Sweden and continued to do his specialist training within Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University Hospitals in Malmo and Lund. 

After five years as Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, he returned to the Middle East as a Senior Consultant in Critical Care at Sheik Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi. In early 2011 he was appointed Senior Consultant and is currently the Director of Surgical Critical Care at HMCl,  Vice Chair Department of Anesthesia, ICU and Perioperative Medicine and Deputy Director of the HMC Critical Care Center.  Dr. Malmstrom is also the Chair of the Hamad General Hospitals Ethics Committee. 

His main interests within Critical Care Medicine are application of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool and interventional aid, percutaneous tracheotomy, treatment of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, management of the difficult airway and treatment and investigation of anaphylaxis. He also has an interest in ECMO, Transport of the Critical Ill patient  and Practical Ethics in Critical Care.