Ten minutes with Hassan Khouli, chair of Department of Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic

![Graphic][1] ### Biography Dr Hassan Khouli, MD, is the chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He has over 20 years of experience working in critical care medicine and pulmonary medicine. Dr Khouli has special expertise in the evaluation and management of patients with complex critical illnesses including sepsis and septic shock, ARDS, multiorgan failure and decision-making at the end of life. Dr Khouli leads the Enterprise-Wide Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic that oversees 12 adult ICUs at eight hospitals including Main Campus and seven regional hospitals with over 170 ICU beds. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, Dr Khouli was a professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the chief of the Critical Care Division at Mount Sinai St Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospitals and the chair of Medical Ethics for over 15 years. Dr Khouli was an early leader in the development of simulation training and he founded the Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS), one of the earliest centres in the USA to be accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Dr Khouli has been actively involved in public policy. He has been an invited lecturer regionally, nationally and internationally. He has received several government, private foundation and industry research grants and has authored many peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters. He has been elected to ‘Best Doctor in America’ several years. It is important for people to recognise that this is probably the most challenging crisis we have faced in healthcare and possibly the most challenging crisis we may be facing in our lifetime. The global nature of this pandemic, the magnitude of what we are experiencing, the tremendous effects on every segment of our society, … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif