Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, MAS, FASE, FCCM is the inaugural Chief of the Integrated Hospital Care Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (UAE), a role he has held since 2024. Previously, he served as Section Chief for Cardiovascular, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Critical Care at The Texas Heart Institute – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is an Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine and is under consideration for the same academic rank at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Díaz-Gómez earned his medical degree from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia), completed an anesthesiology residency at Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio), a critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts), and additional training in cardiac anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic. His prior roles include cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and intensivist at Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio), Medical Director of the Surgical ICU, and Chair of the Critical Care Department at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He is board-certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, with added qualifications in Neurocritical Care (United Council for Neurological Subspecialties) and certifications from the National Board of Echocardiography in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography and Critical Care Echocardiography. He continues to practice critical care medicine and anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
A recognized leader in point-of-care ultrasound, Dr. Díaz-Gómez co-led the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s critical care ultrasonography guidelines and the American Society of Echocardiography’s POCUS nomenclature statement, fostering collaboration among intensivists and advanced cardiac imaging specialists. He holds a Master of Applied Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is completing an MBA at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He also leads the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Task Force for Immigrant Critical Care Professionals.
Phenotypic Patterns of Vasopressor Initiation in Septic Shock: A Retrospective Study of MIMIC-IV
Monday, March 23, 2026
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