Mitchell Stotland, MD, MS, FRCSC
Dr. Mitchell Stotland is the Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Division Chief of Plastic, Craniofacial, and Hand Surgery, and Medical Director, Perioperative Services at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. He completed his medical school education and plastic surgery residency at McGill School of Medicine in Montreal, Canada, and his craniofacial surgery fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (1997). He began his clinical practice in 1997 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, founding a multidisciplinary craniofacial anomalies program in 2000, and growing the clinical census over 4-fold during the next 14 years. In 2007, he obtained a Master of Science degree in Evaluative Clinical Sciences from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and was appointed as Associate Professor of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
In 2014, Dr. Stotland moved to Doha, Qatar to become the founding division chief of Plastic, Craniofacial, and Hand Surgery at Sidra Medicine. In 2015, he was appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar, in 2019 as Medical Director, Perioperative Services, Sidra Medicine, and in 2021 as Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Sidra Medicine. He has introduced a number of new and complex plastic surgical procedures – and a truly multidisciplinary approach to craniofacial care to Qatar.
Dr. Stotland’s main areas of clinical interest include the management of cleft lip and cleft palate, isolated and syndromic forms of craniosynostosis, facial trauma, and total ear reconstruction. His research has focused primarily on the assessment and measurement of facial difference employing a wide variety of experimental modalities such as implicit association testing, fMRI scanning, eye-tracking technology, and novel machine learning models (the latter currently funded by a 3-year Qatar National Research Fund NPRP grant). He has been Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI in government and industry-funded research projects totaling approximately $2M USD. He holds 2 US patents (#D652144 - 2012, #US10531939B2 - 2020).
Having worked alongside many hundreds of medical students and plastic surgery residents, Dr. Stotland has provided close mentorship (clinical and/or research) to dozens of mentees over the years. He has been a thesis supervisor to graduate students at Hamad bin Khalifa University and Qatar University and continues to work with trainees at Weill Cornell Medical College and Qatar University.
In May 2023, Dr. Stotland chaired the inaugural “Artificial Intelligence and Medicine – Bringing Digital Breakthroughs to the Bedside” symposium, assembling clinical and research authorities from across Qatar, as well as the United States, the UK, France, Finland, Germany, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Over 260 registrants attended the event, and Dr. Stotland garnered funding for the symposium from the Qatar National Research Fund, Sidra Medicine, Texas A&M University-Qatar, Qatar University, as well as from Nvidia Corp. and KLS Martin GMbH.
Between June-September 2023, Dr. Stotland completed the MIT Professional Education course entitled “No Code AI and Machine Learning. Building Data Science Systems”.
