Tareq Kheirbek, MD, FACS

Specialties

• Trauma / Surgical Critical Care
• General Surgery
• Hernia Repair

Board Certification: American Board of Surgery (General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care)

Education: Damascus University, Damascus Syria

Residency: Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

Fellowship: Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Memberships in Societies:
Fellow - American College of Surgeons (FACS)
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Hospital Affiliations: Rhode Island Hospital

1. Tareq Kheirbek, Ashley R Kochanek, Hasan B Alam. Hypothermia in bleeding trauma: a friend or a foe? Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2009 Dec 23;17(1):65. A Review.
2. Yongqing Li, Baoling Liu, Hang Zhao, Elizabeth A. Sailhamer, Xiaobo Zhang, Tareq Kheirbek, Robert Finkelstein, George Velmahos, Marc deMoya, Charles A. Hales, and Hasan B. Alam. Protective Effect of Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid against LPS-induced Septic Shock in Rodents. Shock. 2009 Nov;32(5):517-23.
3. Fahad Shuja, Eugene Y Fukudome, Michael Duggan, Robert A Finkelstein, Tareq Kheirbek, Kristopher Hamwi, Thomas H Fisher, Karim Fikry, Marc deMoya, George C Velmahos, Hasan B. Alam, MD. Development and Testing of Low Volume, Hypertonic, Hyperoncotic, Spray-dried Plasma for the Reversal Of Trauma-Associated Coagulopathy. J Trauma. 2011;70(3):664-671). Presented at the Western Trauma Association 2010.
4. Eugene Y. Fukudome, Ashley R. Kochanek, Yongqing Li, Yongqing Li, Baoling Liu, Tareq Kheribek, Jennifer Lu, Kyuseok Kim, Kristopher Hamwi, George C. Velmahos, Hasan B. Alam. Pharmacologic resuscitation promotes survival and attenuates hemorrhage-induced activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 / 2. J Surg Res. 2010;163(1):118-26. Presented at ASC Meeting Feb 2010.
5. Yongqing Li, Baoling Liu, Simon Dillo2, Elizabeth A. Sailhamer, Eugene Y. Fukudome, Tareq Kheirbek, George Velmahos, Marc deMoya, Towia Libermann and Hasan B. Alam. Identification of a Novel Potential Biomarker in a Model of Hemorrhagic Shock and Valproic Acid Treatment. J Surg Res. 2010 Mar;159(1):474-81
6. Ashley R Kochanek, Eugene Y Fukudome , Tareq Kheirbek, Baoling Liu, Yongqing Li, George C. Velmahos, Marc A. deMoya, David R. King, Hasan B. Alam. Pharmacologic Resuscitation Attenuates Pulmonary Injury Following Hemorrhagic Shock in a Rodent Model. JACS 2010;211(3):S45
7. Sarah E Matt, Laura S Johnson, Jeffery W Shupp, Tareq Kheirbek, Jack A Sava. Management of Fasciotomy Wounds – Does the Dressing Matter? Presented at Washington DC COT research competition. The American Surgeon 2011;77(12):1656-1660. Poster presentation finalist ACS 2010 All Surgeons Day. Poster presentation AAST 2010 meeting
8. Tareq Kheirbek, Jose L Pascual. Hypertonic Saline for the Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2014 Sep;14(9):482 Invited Review.
9. R. Bruns, Joseph DuBose, Jason Pasley, Tareq Kheirbek, K. Chouliaras, Andrew Riggle, M. Frank, Herb Phelan, Daniel Holena, Kenji Inaba, J. Diaz, Thomas M Scalea. Morbidity After Loop Versus End Colostomy Reversal: Has Anything Changed? Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2015 Oct;41(5):539-43
10. Jaswin S Sawhney, Andrew H Stephen, Hector Nunez, Stephanie N Lueckel, Tareq Kheirbek, Charles A Adams Jr, William G Cioffi, Daithi S Heffernan. Impact of Type of Health Insurance on Infection Rates among Young Trauma Patients. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2016 Oct;17(5):541-6.
11. Catherine M Dickinson, Daniel R Karlin, Hector R Nunez, Cao SA, Daithi S Heffernan, Sean F Monaghan, Tareq Kheirbek, Charles A Adams, Andrew H Stephen. Do Patients with Pre-Existing Psychiatric Illness Have an Increased Risk of Infection after Injury? Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2017 Jul;18(5):545-549

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