Samir Jaber

September 17, 1967

Menzel Bourguiba, Tunisia

Jaber began his career as a medical doctor in Cochin University Hospital in 1987 and held the position for six years. In 1994, he was appointed Head of the anesthesia-intensive care department at Montpellier University Hospital Center. Then in 1996, Samir became a professor of medicine in critical care and anesthesiology at Montpellier 1 University. Three years later he took a position of a senior research clinician at National Institute for Health and Medical Research. Since 2007 Jaber has been a professor in anesthesiology and critical care and head of the Critical Care and Anesthesia Department of Saint-Eloi University Hospital. Also since 2013 he has served as a senior editor of the respiratory and mechanical ventilation section of the Intensive Care Medicine Journal. Samir is vice-dean and president elect of the scientific council of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier-Nimes since 2014. He is a frequent invited-speaker at national and international meetings, having given over 300 such talks.

Samir Jaber

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Background

Jaber was born on September 17, 1967 in Menzel Bourguiba, Tunisia.

Education

Jaber received a master’s degree in Respiratory Physiology from Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne University in 1998. He received his Ph.D. from the same university.

Career

Jaber began his career as a medical doctor in Cochin University Hospital in 1987 and held the position for six years. In 1994, he was appointed Head of the anesthesia-intensive care department at Montpellier University Hospital Center. Then in 1996, Samir became a professor of medicine in critical care and anesthesiology at Montpellier 1 University. Three years later he took a position of a senior research clinician at National Institute for Health and Medical Research.

Since 2007 Jaber has been a professor in anesthesiology and critical care and head of the Critical Care and Anesthesia Department of Saint-Eloi University Hospital. Also since 2013 he has served as a senior editor of the respiratory and mechanical ventilation section of the Intensive Care Medicine Journal. Samir is vice-dean and president elect of the scientific council of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier-Nimes since 2014. He is a frequent invited-speaker at national and international meetings, having given over 300 such talks.

Achievements

Jaber developed clinical research in the field of the perioperative medicine, from operating room to intensive care medicine. He has published more than 300-peer-reviewed articles in the field of sedation, acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, in the highest ranked journals of medicine, respiratory, anesthesiology and critical care medicine.

Samir developed an animal piglet model of prolonged mechanical ventilation which permitted to explore the mechanisms (mechanistics and patways) of so-called Ventilatory Induced Diaphram Dysfunction.

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Jaber is the past-president of the scientific council of the French Society of Anesthesia and Critical Care and a member of the scientific council of the French Intensive Care Society.

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Samir Jaber is married to Nadja Nasri. They have two children.

Spouse:: Nadja Nasri
child:: Celia Jaber
child:: Nina Jaber

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