Biography

Raed A Dweik, MD, MBA, is the Chairman of the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. Dr Dweik’s clinical interests are in pulmonary disease, pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic beryllium disease and critical care.

He is Professor of Medicine in the Lerner College of Medicine and has a joint appointment in the Lerner Research Institute, with continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2002. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and serves on several journal editorial boards, NIH review panels, and American Thoracic Society, American Heart Association and Association of American Medical Colleges committees.

Dr Dweik is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Heart Association, the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute and the American Thoracic Society.

Dr Dweik earned his medical degree from the University of Jordan before moving to the USA for internal medicine training at Wright State University, followed by a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He earned an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.