Dr. Qanta Ahmed - MD

1300 Franklin Ave
Suite Ul-4A
Garden City, NY 11530

Practice Name:

Winthrop University Hospital

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Specialties:

Sleep Medicine Specialist

Insurances Accepted:

-UnitedHealthcare
-Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
-Oxford Health Plans
-Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
-Empire Plan
-Pacificare

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Professional Statement:

Dr.Ahmed researched Sleep in the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis population, which was presented nationally at both the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society. She is an alumnus of the School of Sleep Medicine in Palo Alto, CA since Spring 2000 and educates there as a visiting professor. She instructs faculty at the American College of Chest Physicians.She also contributes as a speaker to the Narcolepsy Network, a patient-centered national organization for people with narcolepsy. Internationally, she has participated in numerous meetings in Europe and the Midde East most recently returning to lead a course on academic writing in Saudi Arabia. She has expertise in adult, adolescent and pediatric sleep disorders. She has published in her field and also a major work of non fiction. She is a contributing writer on issues including Sleep for The Huffington Post

Education:

Medical School - University Of Nottingham
Internal Medicine Residency
Staten Island University Hospital
Fellowship
Pulmonary
Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine
Winthrop University Hospital

Hospital Affiliations:

Winthrop-University Hospital

Languages Spoken:

English
Hindi
Urdu
Punjabi

Board Certifications:

American Board of Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Disease (Internal Medicine)
American Board of Sleep Medicine

Professional Memberships:

American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Member
American Academy of Chest Physicians, Fellow

Awards and Publications:

1. Ahmed QA Niederman MS, Community Acquired Pneumonia in the Elderly, Clinics of Geriatric Medicine, 2003 19, pp l0l-120
2. Ahmed QA Niederman MS, Respiratory Infection in the Chronic Critically 111 Patient: Ventilator - Associated Pneumonia and Tracheobronchitis. Clinics of Chest Medicine March 2001, 22:1 pp 71-87, Guest Editors: Alexander C. White, Barry L. Fanburg
3. Ahmed QA Niederman MS Cytokines and Host Defense: A clinician's view. Lung Biology in Health and Disease Series. Cytokines in Pulmonary Disease: Infection and Inflammation. 2000 Vol. 141 pp 481-504,(Editors-in Chief Steve Nelson and Thomas R. Martin) Marcel Dekker New York
4. Ahmed QA Niederman MS Pneumonia in the Pregnant Patient, Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 19;3 pp 283-295, 1998, Joseph Lynch Editor-in-Chief
5. Ahmed QA, Niederman MS, Inflammation and Severe Pneumonia: Act Locally Not Globally, Editorial, Critical Care Medicine Vol. 27 (9) pp 2030, 1999 .Editor Joseph Parillo
6. Ahmed QA, Memish ZA, Mecca Bound: The Challenges Ahead. Review Article: Journal of Travel Medicine 9:4, pp 202-210, 2002
7. Dittrich, K, Ahmed R, Ahmed QA, A Case report: Cardiac arrest following scorpion envenomation. Ann Saudi Med 2002; 22(1-2): pp 87-90
8. Memish ZA, Shibl AM, Ahmed QA and the Saudi Arabia CAP Working Group, Guidelines for the Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Saudi Arabia: A Model for the Middle East Region, Consensus Statement: International Journal of Antimicrobials and chemotherapy: Volume 20, (2002) Supplement pp SI-SI 2
9. Ahmed R, Ahmed QA, Adhami N, Memish ZA, Varicella Pneumonia - another steroid- responsive pneumonia ? A Case Report, Journal of Chemotherapy 2002, Volume 14, No.2 pp 220-222
10. Memish ZA, Venkatesh S, Ahmed Q. Travel Epidemiology: The Saudi Perspective -International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents Volume 21 ( 2003) pp 96-101
11. Ahmed QA Fein AM: Myth or Metastasectomy, Clinical Pulmonary Medicine –Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (4; 4:244 July 1997)
12. Ahmed QA Cassiere HC, Intrapleural streptokinase in Parapneumonic Effusion: Is this the answer? Clinical Pulmonary Medicine -Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (5; 2:134 March 1998)
13. Ahmed QA Cassiere HC: Line Sepsis: Crossing the line, Clinical Pulmonary Medicine -Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (5; 3:196 May 1998)
14. Ahmed QA Cassiere HC: Portable Chest radiographs: Standard of Care or Force Of Habit? Clinical Pulmonary Medicine Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (5:5 September 1998)
15. Ahmed QA, Hartman AR, Cassiere HC, Lung Volume Reduction and Lung cancer Clinical Pulmonary Medicine -Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (5; 6:378 November 1998)
16. Ahmed QA, Cassiere HA, Scott W. Minimally Invasive Bypass Surgery: Pump Head Resolved? Clinical Pulmonary Medicine -Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor- in Chief MS Niederman, (May 1999)
17. Ahmed QA, Groth Maritza L. Unmasking the Potential - Non-invasive Ventilation in Pulmonary Edema Clinical Pulmonary Medicine -Pulmonary Trends, Williams and Wilkins, Editor-in Chief MS Niederman, (May 1999)
18. Ahmed R, Arabi Y, Ahmed QA, Rehman M, Shimemeri A, Yamani N, Bamafleh H, Risks and Benefits of Open Lung Biopsy in the Mechanically Ventilated Critically 111 Population Chest 2003 Scientific Highlights: Abstracts of Original Investigations and Case Reports, Supplement to Chest Volume 124/number 4 (Suppl)/October 2003, pp 206S
20. Jahdali H, Johani A, Hakawi A, Arabi Y, Ahmed QA, Altowirky J, Moamry M, Binasalih S. Brief Communication: Patterns and Risk factors for Intentional Drug Overdose in Saudi Arabia. Can J Psychiatry 2004;49:331 -334 22. Rosioreanu A, Brusca-Augello GT, Ahmed QA, Katz DS. CT Visualization
Rosioreanu A, Brusca-Augello GT, Ahmed QA, Katz DS. CT Visualization of Silicone-related Pneumonitis in a Transsexual man. American Journal of Roentgenology 2004; 183:248-249.
24. Arabi Y, Ahmed QA, Haddad S, Abdulrahman J, Al-Shimemeri, A. Outcome predictors of cirrhosis patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2004 Mar;16(3):333-9.
25. Ahmed QA, Arabi Y. Developing and Managing a Team to Participate in Trials involving Acute Respiratory Failure: advice for the inexperienced. An Invited Review, Current Opinion in Critical Care. 2006 Feb;12(1):8-12.
26. Ahmed QA, Memish ZA, Allegranzi B, Pittet D, on behalf of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Muslim Health Care workers and alcohol based hand rub. The Lancet 2006; 367: 1025-1027
27. Ahmed QA, Memish ZA: Health Hazards at the Hajj. The Lancet 2006; 367: 1008-1015
24. Arabi Y, Gomersall CD, Ahmed QA, Boynton RR, Memish ZA. The critically ill avian influenza A (H5N1) patient Crit Care Med. 2007 May; 35(5):1397-403.
25. Arabi Y, Ahmed R, Ahmed Q , Rahman M, Yamani N, Risks and Benefits of Open Lung Biopsy in The Mechanically Ventilated, Critically Ill Population: A Cohort Study and Literature Review Medical Science Monitor 2007(13)(6)
26. Memish ZA, Arabi YM,. Ahmed QA,. Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG) Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19 - Supplement n. 1 (7-11) - 2007 Executive Summary of the Gulf Cooperation Council Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
27. Memish ZA, Ahmed QA, Arabi YM, Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19 - Supplement n. 1 (13-16) - 2007 Rationale for Producing Evidence-Based Guidelines for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Gulf Corporation Council
28. Memish ZA, Ahmed QA, Arabi YM, Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19 Supplement n. 1 (17-23) - 2007 Clinical Presentation and Diagnostic Workup for Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The Gulf Corporation Council CAP Working Group Consensus Statement
29. Memish ZA, Ahmed QA, Arabi YM, Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19 Supplement n. 1 (25-31) - 2007 Clinical Presentation and Diagnostic Workup for Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The Gulf Corporation Council CAP Working Group Consensus Statement
30. Memish ZA, Arabi YM, Ahmed QA, Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19 Supplement n. 1 (33-46) - 2007 Management and Prevention Strategies for Community- Acquired Pneumonia in the Gulf Corporation Council
31. Memish ZA, Ahmed QA, Arabi YM, Shibl AM , Niederman MS and the GCC CAP Working Group (GCC-CAPWG Journal of Chemotherapy Vol. 19
32. Uckay I, Ahmed QA, Sax H, Pittet D, Hospital Acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia as Quality Indicators of Patient Safety? Clinics in Infectious Dis. 2008 Feb 15;46(4):557-63
33. Ahmed QA. Metabolic complications of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. American Journal of Medical Science. 2008 Jan; 335(1):60-4.
34. Ahmed QA Pharmacology I: Effects on Sleep of Commonly Used ICU Medications” In: ‘Sleep in the ICU’ Guest Editor Nancy Collop, Crit Care Clin. 2008 Jul;24(3):493-515.
35. Overdyk FJ, Ahmed QA, Rust PF. STOP questionnaire warrants CAUTION sign. Anesthesiology. 2009 Jan;110(1):193; author reply 193-4
36. Ahmed QA, Memish ZA. Hajj Medicine for the Guests of God: A public health frontier revisited JIPH 2008;1:57-61
37. Overdyk FJ, Ahmed QA. Postoperative monitoring of obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Anesth Analg. 2009 Mar;108(3):1044-5; author reply 1045. No abstract available.
38. Baharoon, SA, Al-Jahdali H, Al Hashmi J, Memish ZA, Ahmed QA Severe sepsis and septic shock at the Hajj: Etiologies and Outcomes Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Travel Medicine Infectious Disease 2009 Jul;7(4):247-52 Epub 2008 October 23
39. Ahmed QA, Barbeschi MA, Memish ZA The Quest for Public Health Security at Hajj: The WHO Guidelines on Communicable Disease Alert and Response During Mass Gatherings, Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 2009 Jul; 7;4 226-30 Epub February 20 ,42. Drummond F, Doelken P, Ahmed QA, Gilbert GE, Strange, S Frye MD Empiric Auto-titrating Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Suspects in submission
40. Ahmed QA. Sleep Deprivation: The metabolic costs of chronic partial sleep loss. Pulmonary and Critical Care Update (PCCU) 2009; 24(Lesson# pending) www.chestnet.org/education/online/pccu/index.php
41. Memish ZA, McNabb SJ, Mahoney F, Alrabiah F, Marano N, Ahmed QA, Mahjour J, Hajjeh RA, Formenty P, Harmanci FH, El Bushra H, Uyeki TM, Nunn M, Isla N, Barbeschi M; Jeddah Hajj Consultancy Group.Establishment of public health security in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj in response to pandemic influenza A H1N1. Lancet. 2009 Nov 21;374(9703):1786-91. Epub 2009 Nov 14
43. Overdyk FJO, Ahmed QA. High Resolution Pulse Oximetry (HRPO) Detects Airway Obstruction Screening Implications for OSAS, Anesthesiology 2009 Editor in chief James C Eisenach MD in submission
44. Ahmed QA, Barbeschi M, Memish ZA, Mass Gathering Medicine when its Hot Flat and Crowded (in draft)
45. Ahmed QA, Memish ZA. Hajj: A Unique Public Health Security Challenge (in draft)
46. Ahmed QA, Barbeschi M, Memish ZA, The WHO Communicable Disease Alert Guidelines at Hajj (in draft)
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