Mouayyad Zaza, MD
Assistant Professor
Department:
SOM-Surgery-Trauma/Critical Ca
Email:
mzaza@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 815-1312
Biography
Dr. Zaza was born in Syria and moved to Qatar at a young age where he grew up and eventually went to medical school at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar. After that, he moved to Houston to pursue General Surgery residency at the Houston Methodist Hospital followed by fellowship in Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Texas Health Science at Houston.
He joined the division of Trauma and Critical Care in the Department of Surgery at UMMC in late 2019. His interests include surgical education, operative management of chest wall trauma and process and quality improvement.
Education
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Trauma/Critical Care | 2019 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital, General Surgery | 2017 |
| Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, MD, Doctor of Medicine | 2012 |
Specialty Certification Licensure
| Licensure, Mississippi State Medical License | |
| Certification, Surgical Critical Care | 09/2019 - Present |
| Certification, General Surgery | 11/2017 - 12/2028 |
Current Positions
| Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | 12/2019 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Presentations
| Poster Presentation, A Case Report of Intrathoracic Surgical Stabilization Technique of the First Rib, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT | 01/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures after Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT | 01/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, Management of combined sternal fractures and anterior costochondral junctions fractures using overlapping fixation plates, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT | 01/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Interesting Trauma Cases, MS State Trauma Symposium, Jackson, MS | 01/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Volume Replacement in Trauma, MICCO Critical Care Conference, Jackson, MS | 01/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Metabolic Derangement as Early Indication of Enteric Feeding Access Displacement in Patient with Neurologic Injury, Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA | 01/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Using laparoscopic trocars to achieve a maximize minimally invasive rib plating and to work around difficult fracture lines, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Park City, UT | 01/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Plating the second rib - tips and tricks to gain access and minimize complications, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Park City, UT | 01/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Successful chest wall reconstruction in severe blunt chest wall trauma, Chest Wall Injury Society Meeting, Park City, UT | 01/2022 |
| Invited Symposia, The Role of Imaging in Trauma and Trauma Transfers, MS State Trauma Symosium, Meridian, MS | 01/2022 |
| Platform Presentations, Impact of Rapid Transfusion Devices on Whole Blood Platelet Count, Platelet Function, and Hemostatic Potential, Academic Surgical Congress, Houston, TX | 01/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Run Don’t Walk: Implementation of a STAT Interventional Radiology Response to Bleeding Patients, the 77th Annual Meeting of AAST and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery and 4th World Trauma Congress, San Diego, CA | 01/2018 |
| Poster Presentation, Impact of Rapid Transfusion Devices on Whole Blood Platelet Count, Platelet Function, and Hemostatic Potential, Military Health Systems Research Symposium, Kissimmee, FL | 01/2018 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Medical Student Teacher of the Year, Department of Surgery | 2023 |
| Best Visiting Lecturer, Department of Emergency Medicine | 2022 |
Professional Membership and Service
| American College of Surgeons, Fellow | 2023 - Present |
| The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Member | 2023 - Present |
| Chest Wall Injury Society, Member | 2020 - Present |
| MS ACS Chapter, Member | |
| State Committee on Trauma, Officer, Other Officer |
Committee Service
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-CURRICULUM, Member | 2024 - Present |
| Surgery Education Committee, Member | 2024 - Present |
| Direct Cost for Procedures, Task Force Member | 2023 - Present |
| DRG Optimization Committee, Member | 2021 - Present |
| THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS AND CLINICS-TRAUMA, Member | 2020 - Present |
Community Service
| Providing meals for underprivileged Jacksonians, Volunteer | 06/2024 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, TEAM Training |
Directed Student Learning
| Preceptor, Advised: Holman Taylor, Owen Barry | 2024 - Present |
| M4 Mentorship, Advised: Kimberly Thomas, Brennen Middleton, Kallye Baggett, Jeremy Burt, Anastasia Mosby |
Fellows supervised
| Surgical Critical Care, Assistant Fellowship Director, 0 fellows supervised | 07/2020 - Present |
Residency Training
| General Surgery, Attending Physician |