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Khorshid Mohammad

Khorshid Mohammad MD, MSc (Pediatrics), FABP, FRCP (Edin), FRCPC (Neonatology)

Neonatal Perinatal Medicine
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Dr. Khorshid Mohammad is a Staff Neonatologist at Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Professor of Pediatrics at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and Medical Site lead of Neonatology at Alberta Children;s Hospital.

Dr. Mohammad graduated in 2006 from the University of Damascus and Arab League with Master and Specialty degrees in Pediatrics. He completed neonatal fellowship training at the University of Calgary in 2010, Neonatal Neurology training at the University of British Columbia, and Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography at Universities of British Columbia and Calgary in 2013.

In 2014, Dr. Mohammad established the Neonatal Neuro-Critical Care program in Calgary in collaboration with Pediatric Neurology. The program  is one of  two in Canada. Dr. Mohammad is a founding member of the Sonographic Clinical Assessment of the Newborn (SCAN) program. Dr. Mohammad main areas of interest are innovation in education and Quality improvement.

Dr. Mohammad established a neonatal brain monitoring simulation lab including cranial ultrasonography phantoms and simulators, neonatal brain MRI simulator, Neonatal EEG simulator, Neonatal neurological exam using Virtual reality, and smart phones applications. He developed several teaching modules in Neonatal neurology and organized several conferences, workshops , and courses in Neonatal neuromonitoring. He is a founding member of the Newborn Brain Society, chair of the society educational committee and member of Board of Directors.

Dr. Mohammad Quality improvement work led to significant reduction in Mortality and brain injury in extremely premature infants and term infants suffered from asphyxia and seizure, for that he was awarded as Emerging leader in Neonatology by the Canadian Pediatric Society in 2020. Dr. Mohammad’s areas of research interest are education, brain perfusion, monitoring, and Quality Improvement neuroprotection strategies.

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