Dr. Heitham Hassoun
Heitham Hassoun is the Chief Executive for International at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. He is also a Professor of Surgery and a multi-faceted clinician and healthcare leader with a wealth of experience in global collaborations and system development. He previously served as Global Medical Director for Johns Hopkins Medicine.Having grown up as an American expat overseas, Heitham is exceptionally passionate about the important role that US Academic Medical Centers play in advancing healthcare across the globe, and he is an advocate for providing access to compassionate, high quality, and evidence-based care for all people regardless of geographic location or socioeconomic background. Heitham maintains a clinical practice in vascular & endovascular surgery and he continues to educate and research in a variety of topics related to global collaborative healthcare and academic medicine.
