Professor Fikri Abu-Zidan is an international expert in Statistics, Research Methodology, Acute Care Surgery, Disaster Medicine, and Point-of-Care Ultrasound. He graduated (MD) from Aleppo University (Syria) in 1981; gained the FRCS, Glasgow, Scotland in 1987; achieved his PhD in Trauma and Disaster Medicine from Linkoping University (Sweden) in 1995; and obtained his Postgraduate Diploma of Applied Statistics from Massey University (New Zealand) in 1999. He is currently serving as a Statistics and Research Methodology Consultant for the Research Office at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at United Arab Emirates University. His clinical experience includes treating war injured patients during the Second Gulf War (1990). He has been promoting the use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for more than thirty-five years in which he is a World Leader. Furthermore, he is an international Translational Medicine consultant developing novel clinically relevant animal models. He has made major contributions to trauma management, education and research in Kuwait, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, and United Arab Emirates.

He has contributed to more than 460 publications in books and refereed international journals. He presented more than 700 invited lectures and scientific abstracts and received more than 40 national and international awards for clinical, research and educational activities. He has chaired more than 75 international conference sessions and chaired the organization committees of seven successful international conferences on Trauma management, Critical Care, and prevention. He developed numerous innovative approaches in his research, educational and clinical activities. He currently serves as the Statistical Consultant for the World Society of Emergency Surgery, as the Statistical Editor for the World Journal of Emergency Surgery, as the Biostatistical Editor for European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery and as an Editor for Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine. He has vast experience in clinical and experimental research and medical writing and ran his medical writing workshop, which is highly valued, in different countries internationally. He has mentored and supervised clinical academic researchers and fellows located in UAE, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Egypt, Turkey, and Brazil.