He is the former Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee of the Society of Interventional Radiology and is recognized nationally and internationally in the IR fields of Portal Hypertension, Liver Transplantation and Hepato-Biliary Diseases. He is nationally known for management of vascular disease: both arterial and venous.

In the last 20 years Dr. Saad has been active in global outreach focused on the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the cofounder of the Middle East Endovascular Therapy (MEET) Symposium and is the cofounder and Founding Executive of SAFIRE: Society of AFrican Interventional Radiology and Endovascular-therapy.