Озаир Ахмад

Ahmad Ozair, MD, MPH, is a postdoctoral research fellow in neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He is also a Clarendon Scholar for Oxford's MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) course (Clarendon is awarded to the top 1% of graduate students at the University of Oxford).

He completed his early education and medical training in India (2016-2022), graduating as the first-ranked candidate in the class of 250 from KGMU, one of the top ten nationally ranked medical schools. During this, he completed several sub-internships in neurosurgery in the US, along with the Khorana Scholarship funded by the Government of India. He was one of the five students in the university's history (till 2022) who received all three of the most prestigious honors of the institution, along with being the sole inaugural recipient of the MBBS student research award. During his house officership year in India, he completed the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT, http://hms.harvard.edu/gcsrt) from HMS Post-Graduate Medical Education, focused on developing clinician-scientists.

After finishing his house officership in India, he pursued a postdoctoral research fellow (2022-2023) in neuro-oncology at the Miami Cancer Institute. At MCI, he worked under Prof. Manmeet Ahluwalia and Prof. Michael McDermott in early-phase trials, including major efforts through the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium. Thereafter, he moved to Johns Hopkins University to pursue an accelerated MPH, with a concentration in epidemiology-biostatistics, along with a graduate certificate in 'clinical trials'. At Bloomberg School of Public Health, he was one of fourteen Sommer Scholars worldwide (>100,000 USD of scholarship).

Currently, he is working under Prof. Graeme Woodworth, Professor and Chair in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland Medicine, with a focus on clinical and translational research in focused ultrasound (FUS).

His prior work has focused on (1) surgical outcomes, (2) neurological diseases, including neurocritical care, and (3) medical education. His published works span 100+ papers with 1800+ citations. He has also been involved in several international multi-centric studies as a co-investigator/collaborator, such as EUROBACT, SYNAPSE-ICU, GNOS, COVIDSurg-Week, and COVIDPaedsCancer, amongst others.

Additionally, he has served as a reviewer for 80+ international journals. Being certified via the INGUIDE Guideline Development Program (Level 1), he has served as a guidelines panel member of several surgical guideline efforts, including the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). He currently serves as a member of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee of the North American Spine Society (NASS). He also serves as an editorial board member for the Asian Spine Journal and BMC Surgery. Finally, he serves on the inaugural Maryland Commission on Public Health (CoPH), as part of the Workforce Workgroup.