Assistant Professor of Surgery
Co-Director
Trauma Outcomes Research Group
Research Interests:
- Long term clinical and functional outcomes after trauma
- Race and Gender Disparities after Trauma
- Care of Uninsured Trauma/Surgery Patients
- Optimal treatment of Trauma/Critically Ill Patients in resource poor settings
- Injury Severity Scoring Systems
Clinical Interests:
- High Energy Blunt and Penetrating Trauma
- Advanced Ventilation Modalities in Surgical Critical Care
- Emergency General Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
Education:
- Undergraduate: St. Patrick's High School-Karachi, Pakistan
- Medical School: The Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan
- Masters in Public Health: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- General Surgery Residency: New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla NY
- Fellowship: Surgical Critical Care-Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Fellowship: Trauma and Emergency Surgery-Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Boards:
- Diplomate - American Board of Surgery
Awards
- American College of Surgeons-New York State Chapter: Scientific Papers on Trauma Resident Research Competition: Winner, Clinical Investigation. 12/2001
- American College of Surgeons-Region II: Scientific Papers on Trauma Resident Research Competition: Winner, Clinical Investigation (Certificate and Cash prize) 4/2002
- American College of Surgeons-Connecticut Chapter: 1st prize Annual resident research competition in Surgical Oncology. (Certificate and Cash Prize) 10/2002
- American College of Surgeons-New York State Chapter: Scientific Papers on Trauma Resident Research Competition: Winner, Clinical Investigation. 12/2002
- American College of Surgeons- Forum on Fundamental Surgical Problems: Excellence in Research Award – 2006 (Certificate and Cash Prize) 10/2006
- American College of Surgeons- Maryland State Chapter: Scientific Papers on Trauma: Fellows Research Competition: 2nd prize, Clinical Investigation. 11/2006
Selected Publications:
1. Haider AH, Efron D, Haut E, DiRusso S, Sullivan T, Cornwell E. African American children experience worse Clinical and Functional Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury: An Analysis of the National Pediatric Trauma Registry. J Trauma. 2007 May;62(5):1259-63
2. Haider AH, Efron D, Haut E, Chang D, Paidas C, Cornwell E. Adolescent Females have lower Mortality than Males following Traumatic Shock: An analysis of the National Pediatric Trauma Registry. Arch Surg. 2007 Sep;142(9):875-80.007
3. Efron D, Haider AH, Haut E, Chang D, Cornwell E. Alarming surge in nonsurvivable urban trauma and the case for violence prevention. Arch Surg. 2006 Aug;141(8):800-3; discussion 803-5.
4. Haider AH, Risucci DA, Sullivan T, DiRusso SM, Omer SB, Savino JA, Paidas CN. Injury prevention priority score: A new method for trauma centers to prioritize injury prevention initiatives. J Am Coll Surgeons. 2004 Jun;198(6):906-13.
5. Haider AH, Risucci DA, DiRusso SM, Sullivan T, Omer SB, Slim M, Paidas CN, Determination of National Pediatric Injury Prevention Priorities using the Injury Prevention Priority Score (IPPS)- J Ped Surg 2004 Jun; 39(6):976-979
6. Cuff S, DiRusso S, Sullivan T, Risucci D, Nealon P, Haider AH, Slim M. Validation of a relative head injury severity scale for pediatric trauma.
J Trauma. 2007 Jul;63(1):172-7; discussion 177-8.
7. Haider AH, Edwin DH, MacKenzie EJ, Bosse MJ, Castillo RC, Travison TG, Lower Extremity Assessment Project Study Group. The use of the NEO-five factor inventory to assess personality in trauma patients: a two-year prospective study. J Orthop Trauma. 2002 Oct;16(9):660-7.
8. Sullivan T, Haider AH, DiRusso SM, Risucci DA, Nealon P, Slim M. Prediction of mortality in pediatric trauma patients: New Injury Severity Score (NISS) outperforms Injury Severity Score (ISS). J Trauma. 2003 Dec;55(6):1083-7; discussion 1087-8.
9. Haut ER, Noll K, Efron DT, Berenholz SM, Haider A, Cornwell EE, Pronovost, PJ. Can Increased Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Be Used as a Marker of Quality of Care in the Absence of Standardized Screening?: The Potential Effect of Surveillance Bias on Reported DVT Rates. Journal of Trauma. (accepted for publication - in press).
10. Chang DC, Handly N, Abdullah F, Efron DT, Elliott RH, Haider AH, Shoher A, Pronovost P, Cornwell III, EC; The occurrence of potential patient safety errors among trauma patients: Are they random? Annals of Surgery (accepted for publication- in press)
Phone: (410) 614-3831
Fax: (410) 614-9493
E-mail: ahaider1@jhmi.edu
