Omar Ibrahim

Title: MD
Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Interventional Pulmonary
Organization: UConn Health
Country: USA

Dr. Ibrahim is an assistant professor of medicine and the director of interventional pulmonary at UConn Health. He performs minimally invasive pulmonary procedures and is responsible for training pulmonary fellows in these procedures. Dr. Ibrahim earned his medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, and completed his internal medicine residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he was also the chief medical resident. He completed his pulmonary critical care fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Pennsylvania. After Dr. Ibrahim’s general pulmonary training, he was one of three applicants chosen to complete an additional year of training in interventional pulmonary at Harvard Medical School, with clinical responsibilities at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.
He is currently the Director of Thoracic Oncology at UConn Health, his research interests are  Lung cancer therapeutics delivered via robotic bronchoscopy and implementation of advance imaging during bronchoscopy such as cone beam ct.