Mariam Maliala Lansari is an intensivist consultant at King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She received her medical degree and completed internships in Bahrain. Her fellowships include critical care from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. She has over 20 years of experience working in intensive care units and has published several research papers. Her career focuses on quality improvement initiatives and medical education in critical care.

1. C U R R I C U L U M V I T T A E
M A R I A M A L I A L A N S A R I , M D , F R C S I .
Consultant Intensivist
King Khalid University Hospital-
College of Medicine,
King Saud University-
Riyadh_KSA

2. PERSONAL DATA
Date and Place of Birth
 February 1969, Bahrain
Nationality
 Bahraini
Marital Status
 Married with two kids (13 years old boy and 7 years old girl)
Religion:
Muslim.
Spoken and Written Languages
 Arabic and English
CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE

3.  Registered and accredited by the Saudi Council for Health Specialities as a consultant
intensivist (11-R-M-0070754)
 Critical Care Fellowship, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. ,Riyadh,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (July 2002 – June 2004).
 Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, FRCSI, April 1999.
 Arab Board Certificate of Surgery (CABS), Part 1, December 1997.
 Bahrain Medical Licensure Examination, June 1995. (Life time validity).
 Member in society of critical care medicine.
( membership number 59426 ).
EDUCATION
 Joined the College of Health Science for General Nursing in 1986.
 Joined the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gul University, Bahrain
in 1989.
 Awarded the Doctor of Medicine Degree (M.D) in May 1994.
 Internship rotation from July 1994 to June 1995, Bahrain Defense Force Hospital
 ACLS Provider, 2010.
 BLS Provider, 2010
 Fundamentals of Disasters Manangment. Instructor held by the society of critical care of
medicine in King A.Aziz National guard Hospital in Riyadh
 FCCS Instructor
 Attended several workshops like difficult airway management, evidence based medicine,
percutanous tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation.

4. POST GRADUATE TRAINING:
Internship
 12 months rotation at BDF Hospital in major departments
Post-Internship:
 Surgery – April 1996 to September 1999
 Has been working in a closed Intensive Care Unit since Octoober 1999.
 Worked as a consultant Intensivist (Feb 2005-Sept 2011)
 Assisstant Consultant king Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center- Riyadh Feb
2012-Feb 2013.
 Currently working as a consultant Intensivist in king khalid University Hospital,
College of Medicine, King Saud University- Riyadh since march 2013
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

5.  2nd
Middle East Medicare Conference, Bahrain, October 1989
 Research Methodology Course, Bahrain, February – May 1995
 The 6th
International Congress of theArab Associated of Pediatric Surgeons, Bahrain, 21-
23 October 1997
 The 1st
Arabian Gulf Medical Associated Conference, Bahrain, 24-26 November 1997
 1st
Baharain Cancer Society Conference, Bahrain, November 1997
 Seminar on the Emergency Management of Trauma for Anesthetists, Surgeons and
Emergency Physicians.
 Achievers Leadership and Personality Development Training Workship, December
1998
 Fundamentals of Conducting Research Symposium, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, 12 October 2002.
 The First International Symposium on Difficult Airway Management, King Faisal
Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, 22-23 January 2003
 International Emergency Medicine Symposium, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, Riyadh, 31 March - 02 April 2003
 Evidence-Based Medical Practice Workshop, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, 10 March 2003
 Attended the critical care conference in Brucel 2005
 Attended the panarb critical care conference in Dubai 2006 and 2008
 Attended ultrasound course level I in ER/ICU in National Guard hospital held on
25-28 July,2012
 Attended ultrasound course level I in ER/ICU in King Faisal Research Center
hospital held on 14-16 October, 2012.
 Instructed in a heamodynameics course in KSU, November 2013
 Attended a Certified Healthcare Quality Professional ( CPHQ) workshop in KSU,
January 2014.

6. RESAERCH/WRITING ACTIVITY
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Hijazi M, Sinno M, Alansari M (2012) The Rapid Response Team Reduces the Number
of Cardiopulmonary Arrests and Hospital Mortality. Emergency Med 2:128.
doi:10.4172/2165-7548.1000128
The Rapid Response Team in Outpatient Settings Identifies Patient Who Needs
Immediate Intensive Care Unit Admission CHEST 2012, October , Vol 142, No. 4_Meeting Abstracts
Use of NIPPV in pregnancy. Mariam A. Al-Ansari, Akmal A. Hameed, Suhaila E. Al-
jawder, Hassan M. Saeed. Use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation during
pregnancy: Case series. Annals of Thoracic Medicine - Vol 2, Issue 1, January-March
2007, P 23-25.
Descriptive study of CVC complications. A.H Akmal, M. Hassan , A. Mariam. The
Incidence of complications of Central venous catheters at an Intenisve Care Unit.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine - Vol 2, Issue 2, April-June; 2007, P 61-63.
Use of NIPPV in chest trauma patient. Mariam A. Al-Ansari. Successful use of non-
invasive positive pressure ventilation in a complicated flail chest. Saudi Med J 2006;
Vol. 27 (8): P
Electrolyte replacement therapy in the ICU (Mohammed Hijazi and Mariam Al-Ansari,
Protocol-driven vs. physician-driven electrolyte replacement in adult critically ill
patients. Ann Saudi Med 2005; 25(2): 105-110.
Correlation of central venous pressure in the peripherally inserted central catheter
versus centrally inserted central catheter. (accepted as an abstract by the CHEST
Meeting, 2004, Wednesday, October 27).
Investigator in the second international mechanical ventilation survey by . (Supervised
by Dr. Nabil Abuchaleh, Fellowship program director in King Faisal Specialist Hospital

7. OTHER PUPLICATION
• Pilgrimage to Mecca” in Saudi Arabia: A Model for Healthcare for Mass Gatherings.
Dr. Mariam Alansari and Dr. A.H. Alzeer. ICU Volume 13 - Issue 4 - Winter
2013/2014.
• Quality of undergraduate critical care medical education in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia. Where do we stand? Mariam A. Alansari. Saudi Med J 2014; Vol.
35 (1); 95-96.
• Making a Difference in Eye Care of the Critically Ill Patients. Alansari MA,
Hijazi MH, Maghrabi KA. J Intensive Care Med. 2013 Nov 7. [Epub ahead of print]
• Chilaiditi syndrome: a case of missed diagnosis. Alansari M. BMJ Case Rep
Published online. 2013. doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-008459
 Atypical intraoperative anaphylactic shock with ECG changes secondary to
non-ruptured hepatic hydatid cyst. Alansari M, BMJ Case Reports 2013.
doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-008442
 " On demand chest X-ray" Alansari MA. ICU management journal for "ESICM"
2012 Online link: http://icu management.org/journal/article/demand-chest-x-ray-
ordering-icu-prescribing-efficacy
 Nurse’s role in the rapid response team-A hospital administrator chance for
investment. Alansari MA. Brief communication in Saudi medical journal,2013
 Routine daily chest x-ray in the ICU. Time to cut down. Alansari MA. Brief

8. communication in Saudi medical journal, 2013.
 A 51-Year-Old Woman with Blanched Skin, Coagulopathy, Abdominal Pain,
and Cardiopulmonary Failure. Mariam A. Al-Ansari. CHEST, 2007; 131; 1603-
1607.
 A Patient With Sickle Cell Disease With Septic Shock, Purpura, and Cold
Extremities Mariam A. Al-Ansari. CHEST; 2007; 131; 1608-1611
 A 20-Year-Old Man With Status Epilepticus and Uncontrolled Hypertension.
Mariam Al-Ansari and Anand Todwal. CHEST 2007; 131; 309-312.
 Mohammed H. Hijazi, Mariam A. Al-Ansari. Pulmonary hydatid cyst in a
pregnant patient causing acute respiratory failure. Annals of Thoracic
Medicine. Vol 2, Issue 2. April- June 2007.
 Mariam A. Al-Ansari . Hypoglycemia and Cardiac Arrest in a Critically Ill
Patient on Strict Glycemic Control. Letter to the Editor. Anesth Analg; Vol.
103, No. 3, September 2006. P787-789.
 Mariam A Al-Ansari and Mohammed H Hijazi. REVIEW Medical errors and
adverse events: Focus on the intensive care unit. Clinical Intensive Care,

9. March/June 2006; 17(1/2): 9-17.
 Mariam A Al-Ansari and Mohammed H Hijazi.Clinical review: Percutaneous
dilatational tracheostomy. Critical Care 2005 Vol 9.
 Mariam A. Al-Ansari. Albumin: Its place in critical care practice. Brief
Communication. Saudi Med J. 2005; Vol. 26 (11): P1823-1824.
 MARIAM A. AL-ANSARI, NABIL M. ABOUCHALEH, & MOHAMMED H.
HIJAZI. Return of spontaneous circulation after cessation of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation in a case of digoxin overdosage. Clinical Intensive Care,
September/December 2005;
16 (3/4): 179-181
 Papers published by the ICU management journal:
a. Saftey of trainin in the intensive care unit.
b. Airway mangment in the obstetric patients.
c. Acute care education.
d. Use of Daily goal sheet in the ICU.
 Mohammed H Hijazi and Mariam A Al-Ansari. Therapy for ventilator-associated
pneumonia: what works, what doesn't. Respiratory Care Clinics of North

10. America. Volume 10, Issue 3, (September 2004) Pages 341-358.
 Papers accepted for publication in the ICU management journal:
i. Use of PIC catheter in the intensive care settings.
Book Contributions:
1. Ventilator associated pneumonia prevention. A chapter in Mechanical
Ventilation book By MacIntyre, 2ed edition, 2007.
2. Invited by Dr. Esquinas A (AARC International Fellow. FCCP, Spanish
Governor of International Council of Respiratory Care, Member of European
Respiratory Care Association, Editor in Chief: Ibero American Journal of
Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation and Journal Respiratory Care and Applied
Technology President Spanish Society of Respiratory Care) to cntribute in
writing to the book of Update in Respiratory technology and Applied
Technology, a chapter in Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy. Email address
of a refernce can be provided.
FUTURE RESEARCH/ REVIEW PAPER PLANES:
 Study of combined medical and nursing daily goal sheet on ICU outcome.
 Nurse adherence to elevation of head of the bed in the ICU, pre
and post education.
 Incidence of hypernatremia in the ICU as an indicator of quality.
 Eye care of Mechanically ventilated patients
 Hyperglycemia in the ICU.

11. Referees:
Prof A.aziz Alzeer
King Khalid University Hospital-
College of Medicine,
King Saud University-
Riyadh_KSA
PO Box: 2925 (95)
Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Phone No. +966 1 14692264 , Fax No. +966 1 14692365.
Mobile: 0504410525
Dr.Khalid Maghrabi, MD, FCCP
Acting Chairman, Consultant Intensivist
Department Adult Critical care Medicine
MBC 46, P.O. Box 3354
Telephone: 966-1-442-4751
Fax: 966-1-442-7499
King Faisal hospital and Research Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11211.
Mohammed Hijazi, MD, FCCP
CEO Debut, Consultant Intensivist,
Department Adult Critical care Medicine
MBC 46, P.O. Box 3354
Telephone: 966-1-442-4751
Fax: 966-1-442-7499
King Faisal hospital and Research Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11211.
Dr.Wafeeq mahmood
Consultant Intensivist
Department Adult Critical care Medicine
MBC 46, P.O. Box 3354
Telephone: 966-1-442-4751
Fax: 966-1-442-7499
King Faisal hospital and Research Center
Dr. Mariam
Alansari.

12. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11211.