Aussama Khalaf Nassar

Dr. Nassar is an associate professor of Surgery working at Stanford University, USA.  Is board certified in General Surgery and Critical Care in both the USA and Canada. Dr. Nassar earned an MSc degree in Health Science Education from McMaster University, Canada. He is currently the director of the surgical critical care fellowship program at Stanford and the Director of the surgery resident coaching program. He has more than 12 years of clinical academic experience in tertiary care referral academic health centers in North America.  His clinical interests are emergency and elective surgery, in addition to trauma and critical care medicine. He is also a skilled endoscopist performing both upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. His research interests are focused on non-technical skill acquisition in surgical training programs. In addition, it includes developing assessment tools for trainees and burnout among physicians and other healthcare professionals. Dr. Nassar is especially interested in training trainees in simulation-based medical education with a focus on perioperative inter-professional collaboration and patient safety. He is a true clinician-educator and is a certified simulation educator as well as an ATLS, ASSET course director. 

Feb 1, 2023- Present               Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery

Feb 1, 2021 – Jan 31, 2023     Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

Feb 1, 2017 – Jan 31, 2021     Stanford University, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Stanford, CA

Jan 2015 – Feb 2017               Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care

Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Jul 2012 – Jul 2015                Clinical Scholar of Surgery and Critical Care

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Sep 2012 – Nov 2014             Masters of Science in Health Science Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Aug 2005 – Jun 2006              Clerkship Program, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University

Oct 1989 – Jun 1995               Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq