Dr. Omar Ahmad Minai, MD

Omar A. Minai, MD, FCCP, DABSM, is a Staff Physician in the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and the Lung Transplant Center at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Minais main clinical and research interests include pulmonary hypertension, advanced COPD, sleep disorders and lung transplantation. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 publications primarily related to advanced lung diseases such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, emphysema, and lung transplantation. He obtained his medical degree from the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan in 1990. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut, and he was a Chief Resident. Dr. Minai completed his Pulmonary, Critical care, and Sleep Medicine training at the Cleveland Clinic in 1999, when he joined the faculty in the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Minai is board-certified in the fields of pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and sleep …medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the American Thoracic Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.