Heidi Abdelhady, MD’98

Dr. Heidi Abdelhady is a board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician, educator, K-12 public education advocate, mother, wife, a really good cook and storyteller.  After completing her residency at BMC and fellowship at University of Maryland Medical and Shock Trauma Centers she remained on faculty becoming the medical director of the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit and System-Wide Chair of the VTE Working Group.

She was then recruited to Ascension, where she developed the first targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest program in Baltimore, led their rapid response and code blue groups, collaborator in establishing and implementing sepsis bundles successfully leading being the top performer among the 154 Ascension hospitals in sepsis care.  

At Ascension’s national level, Heidi has served as the dyad physician leader for Clinical Network Services ABIDE Group, where the focus was on diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization and with establishing processes toward achieving health equity for patients and communities that they serve.  She’s served as President of Society of Critical Care Medicine – Maryland Chapter, was founder & inaugural chair of Women in Medicine and coaches physicians on having difficult conversations.

As a front-line critical care physician during the entirety of the pandemic and in managing current challenges in health care because of the pandemic, her focus has shifted to helping organizations enhance their early warning systems of patient deterioration and the response to such changes in addition to standing up much needed pulmonary embolism response teams (PERT).  As a result, she founded Critical Care Continuum LLC and will join Johns Hopkins Community Physician group where she will continue to practice critical care and acute pulmonary medicine.  Aside from all of these accomplishments, Heidi has already shown great energy, inspiration and dedication to Alumni Relations and her role on this board.