Ahmad Ozair is a physician-researcher from India and one of 14 Sommer Scholars worldwide in the 11-month MPH program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (>100,000 USD of scholarship). He is also an incoming Clarendon Scholar for Oxford's MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) course (Clarendon is awarded to the top 1% of graduate students at the University of Oxford).

Ahmad was previously a postdoctoral research fellow in neuro-oncology at Miami Cancer Institute. He graduated as the first-ranked physician in a class of 250 students from KGMU, one of the top ten nationally ranked medical schools in India. He was one of the five students in the university's history (till 2022) who received all three of the most prestigious honors of the institution, along with being the sole inaugural recipient of the MBBS student research award. He also recently completed a year-long program from Harvard Medical School Post-Graduate Medical Education. Called the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT, http://hms.harvard.edu/gcsrt), the program aims to develop clinician-scientists.

Ahmad's research has focused on (1) surgical outcomes, (2) neurological diseases, including neurocritical care, and (3) medical education. His published works span 70+ papers, appearing in Neurology (the Green Journal), Journal of Neurosurgery, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, etc., with 1000+ citations. He has also been involved in several international multi-centric studies as a co-investigator/collaborator, such as EUROBACT, SYNAPSE-ICU, GNOS, COVIDSurg-Week, COVIDPaedsCancer, and GNS-1, amongst others. He serves as lead author for two Cochrane review teams, both at a protocol stage.

Additionally, serving as an invited reviewer for over 50 international journals, Ahmad has long been a 99th percentile all-time peer reviewer worldwide on Publons/Web of Science. Being certified via the INGUIDE Guideline Development Program (Level 1), he has served as a guidelines panel member of 2 joint guidelines of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA). He also serves as an editorial board member for the Asian Spine Journal and BMC Surgery.

He may be reached at aozair1[at]jh[dot]edu.