We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Adel M. Bassily-Marcus as the Chief of Surgical Intensive Care for the Yale New Haven Health System, effective September 1, 2024.
Dr. Bassily-Marcus, a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, brings over 30 years of experience to Yale. The new role, designed to unify surgical intensive care operations across the health system, will report to Dr. Nita Ahuja (Chair of Surgery), Dr. Lisa Leffert (Chair of Anesthesiology), and Dr. Maxwell Laurans (Senior Vice President of Surgical Services).
“This recruitment was a real tour de force with input from leaders, faculty, and staff from across the system to ensure priorities across all departments and service lines were voiced,” said YNHHS Surgeon-in-Chief and YSM Chair of Surgery, Dr. Nita Ahuja.
Supporting the search was a multi-disciplinary committee representing General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Bariatric Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Urology, Nursing, and Quality.
“We are confident that Dr. Bassily-Marcus is the ideal candidate for this role given his unique breadth of experience and his perspective on the multifaceted nature of surgical critical care,” said Dr. Leffert.
Dr. Bassily-Marcus’ career is distinguished by his extensive experience managing surgical critical care patients and teams. Throughout his tenure at Mount Sinai, he directed both clinical and technological functions of the system’s 19 intensive care unit teams, spanning eight New York hospitals. He also held leadership roles across surgical ICU, critical care consultation, tracheostomy team, nutrition and vascular access services.
His research on critical care management and procedures has led to the development of national and international guidelines on managing critically ill patients, and he established innovative programs, including the Critical Care Simulation Training, which is part of the core curriculum for all medical students at ISMMS. As a pioneer in the field of critical care informatics, he was elected the inaugural Chair of the EPIC critical care specialty steering board.
Dr. Bassily-Marcus is originally from Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, completed internal medicine residency at UMDNJ, followed by fellowship in surgical critical care at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was recruited as faculty in the Department of Surgery.
At Yale, Dr. Bassily-Marcus will hold a primary faculty appointment in the Department of Surgery and a secondary appointment in the Department of Anesthesiology.
Please join us in welcoming him to Yale.