Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP, FCCP

Prof. Ahmed BaHammam graduated from the College of Medicine, King Saud University (KSU) with honor in 1989. He did his residency training in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center between 1989 and 1993. Then he joined the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1994 for residency and specialty training in Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He joined King Saud University as an assistant professor in 1998. In 2006, he was appointed as a professor of Medicine in King Saud University. He started the Fundamental Critical Care Support Course in the Middle East in collaboration with the Critical Care Society (USA) in 1998. The first academic sleep disorders center in Saudi Arabia was established by him in 2001 in KSU. Then the first Sleep Medicine Fellowship program in the region was established by him in King Saud University in 2009.

He was a founding member of the Saudi Thoracic Society in 2003 and the Saudi Sleep Medicine Group in 2007. Then he worked with his colleagues to create and establish the Annals of Thoracic Medicine Journal and acted as the associate editor of the journal. In 2009, the University Sleep Disorders Center was recognized as a research center of excellence in King Saud University. Additionally, he served as the Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians in Saudi Arabia for two terms (2000-2006) and currently serves as the National Delegate of the European Respiratory Society in Saudi Arabia. Prof. BaHammam is the Chair of the IRB and a member of the Research Center in the College of Medicine, King Saud University. He published more than 70 articles in peer review journals, 10 chapters in medical books and presented more than 55 scientific abstracts. To educate the public about sleep disorder, he established the first Arabic website about sleep disorders on the net "Sleep in Health and Disease" on 2002 (http://sleep-sa.net).