Dr. Salim Surani currently serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Texas A&M University. He served as the program director for the Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program at Bay Area Medical Center, Corpus Christi. He has done his fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas. Dr. Surani has done his Master in Public Health, & Epidemiology from Yale University and Masters in Health Management from the University of Texas, Dallas. Dr. Surani also has served as a board trustee and secretary of THE CHEST Foundation. He currently serves as chair of the ACCP Chest infection and disaster network and Vice Chair of their membership committee. Dr. Surani has authored more than 400 articles in the peer review journals and has written several books and book chapters. He is involved in teaching residents for more than two decades. He has been named as faculty of the year award numerous times.  He has established himself as a Master Clinician who has trained significant numbers of practicing primary care, internal medicine, and emregency physicians in the Coastal Bend region; He has served as an independent grant reviewer for the Government agency of Australia, Singapore, as well a European Nation via Rannis. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than 50 journals. He has served as a speaker at several regional, national, and international scientific conferences. His area of expertise includes critical care, sleep medicine, ICU infections, and practice operations. He has also served on committees for several national organizations and has received several communities and teaching awards, including the Health Care Hero award, Humanitarian awards by the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, and Texas Medical Association. Dr. Surani is highly regarded among his peers and is very well respected as a mentor, clinician, and humanitarian.