People Biography

Dr. Ali Ait Hssain is a senior consultant intensivist and member of the ECMO Team at Hamad General Hospital, in Doha, Qatar. He has supervised PhD students at HBKU and is involved in clinical research including ICU patients with various diseases. He has also contributed to the Covid 19 diagnosis research with other colleagues at HBKU.

Alongside this, Dr. Hssain is an assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He received his medical degree and completed his residency of anesthesiology and critical care medicine in France.

Dr. Ali Ait Hssain has more than 20 years’ experience in Critical Care Medicine from different countries. He served as assistant clinical professor in university d’Auvergne in Clermont Ferrand, France. He was at the origin of the launch of the ECMO program in his center in 2007. 

He is involved in several multicenter trials as investigator in international and multicenter collaborative projects with academic institutions. He is the author of more than 80 papers and book chapters. He is the actual lead for research at the medical intensive care unit. He is the lead for the ECMO Simulation Team of Doha (ECSiTeD) and therefore advocating for Simulation Based training for interprofessional development.