Dr. Usamah Mossallam

Dr. Usamah (Sam) Mossallam graduated from the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn in 1994. He went on to a combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at the Medical Center of Delaware (Christiana Care Health System). He was the chief resident for both the categorical and combined residency programs in his fifth and final year. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine. After completing his residency in 1999, Dr. Mossallam joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital where he soon became director of the combined residency programs in emergency medicine/internal medicine and emergency medicine/internal medicine/critical care medicine, as well as the associate residency director of the categorical emergency medicine residency. In early 2006, Dr. Mossallam left Henry Ford Health System and accepted the position of Chairman of Emergency Medicine and associate Chief Medical Officer at the International Medical Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he commissioned a new emergency department alongside the commissioning of the International Medical Center. Dr. Mossallam rejoined Henry Ford Health System in late 2007 as the service chief/medical director and division head of the Fairlane Emergency Department within Henry Ford Health System.

In 2011, Dr. Mossallam accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer – associate at Henry Ford Hospital. He created the utilization management program and the internal physician advisory service during his tenure as CMO. The Henry Ford hospital case mix index (CMI) grew from 1.64 to a state of Michigan high of 2.11. In January 2015, he was promoted to Vice President and Medical Director for international initiatives and projects for Henry Ford Health System. He leads the system international activities that include licensed hospitals in Riyadh, KSA and several in India. He has established a visiting professor program in Dubai as well as grown the international patient division at Henry Ford Health System.

His interests include diversity and inclusion, hospital administration, utilization management, emergency ultrasound, resident education, emergency medicine administration and evidence-based medicine in clinical care.