Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education
Biosketch
Eyad Akhras, MD, is an internal medicine physician. He is a graduate of Damascus University in 1999. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in 2005 and joined the Henry Ford Medical Group since. He works as inpatient hospitalist. He served as inpatient teaching and rounding staff, handling non-teaching patients across general medical, telemetry, critical care, preoperative, and consultation settings. He served as Medical Director, Cardiology Unit (2007-2009) where he managed cardiac patient care and focused on quality measures for ACS and CHF. He also served as the Service Chief of Hospital Medicine, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital (2010-2017) where he directed operations of the hospitalist program, fostering relations with community physicians. He also has been rounding since 2018 at Corwell Health South Hospital and he provides teaching rounds to the resident and medical students.
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Education and Training
- Residency 2005, Henry Ford Hospital
- MD 1999, Damascus University
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Research
- Hospitalist Medicine
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Publications
Abu-Mahfouz M., Cavalcante J.L., Arida M., Garcia J., Al-Mallah M., Boguszewski A., Haque S., Rehman M., Al Badarin F., Akhras E., Schultz L., Mitsias P., Alam M., Ananthasubramaniam K. Significance of high sensitivity C-reactive protein and D-dimer in evaluating intracardiac thrombus and spontaneous echo contrast in patients referred for transesophageal echocardiography: A prospective study Cardiology Journal. 2012;19(3):267-273.
Yee K.C., Mukherjee D., Smith D.E., Kline-Rogers E.M., Fang J., Mehta R.H., Almanaseer Y., Akhras E., Cooper J.V., Eagle K.A. Prognostic significance of an elevated creatine kinase in the absence of an elevated troponin I during an acute coronary syndrome American Journal of Cardiology. 2003;92(12):1442-1444.