Primary Job Title Co-Founder and President Primary Organization 
Breath Diagnostics
Location Louisville, Kentucky, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Michael Bousamra is a co-founder and the president of Breath Diagnostics. He is responsible for developing the idea of breath analysis for lung cancer detection. Michael Bousamra is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Past professional appointments include President of
the Jewish Hospital Medical Staff in addition to serving on numerous advisory, steering, and hospital administrative committees, notably the Executive Committee at JHSMH, the Operating Committee at Jewish Hospital, and a host of academic appointments. A prolific author and presenter, Michael Bousamra holds patents on methods to detect cancer in animals and exhaled breath sampling method, device, and analysis.
He is a Director of Thoracic Surgery at Baptist Health. He attended the University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Michigan - Medical School, Medical College of Virginia Hospital, and Washington University Medical Center.
