Our Faculty

John Abdelnoor, MD

Professor of Orthopedics, Lebanese University
Clinical Associate, American University of Beirut
Head, Arab Boards in Orthopedics, & Senior Examiner
Member, of the Arab Council of Higher Surgical Education of Arab World

Anil Agarwal, MD

MNAMS Professor, President
Indian Society of Study Pain (ISSP)
President Lucknow City Branch
Ex Vice President of ISSP

Department of Anaesthesiology
Sanjay Ghandhi
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Lucknow 226 014, UP, INDIA

Imad Hashim Ahmad, MD

MBCHB, FRCS Ed
Head of Department of Neurosurgery
Rashid Hospital
Assistant professor of Neurosurgery
Dubai Medical college
Chairman of the Emirates
Neuroscience society Dubai, UAE

Hammam Akbik, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
Department: Anesthesiology
University of Cincinnati
Management Center
West Chester, Ohio, USA

Gülseren Derya Akyüz, MD

Professor, Marmara University School of Medicine, Head of Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Director of Clinical Neurophysiology, Director of Osteoporosis Outpatient Clinic,
Istanbul, Turkey

Nasser Ani, MD

Ani Orthopaedic Group,
Hazlet, N.J.
NJ, USA
Syrian American Medical Society Northeast Chapter President

Jean Noel Argenson, MD

Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery
Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite,
Marseille, France

Jean Noel Argenson, MD

Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery
Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite,
Marseille, France

John Asghar, MD

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, Philadelphia, USA

Dwarkadas Kanhayalal Baheti, MD

Professor and Head Unit of Anesthesiology, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, Chief, Pain Management Clinic, Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Center, Mumbai, India

Gamal Baroud, PhD

Canada Chair in Skeletal Research,
University of De Shearbrooke
Shearbrooke, Canada

Thomas Bauer, MD

Ambroise Pare, West Paris University,
Paris , France

Karin Buttner-Jans, MD

Professor and Director Orthopaedic Clinic, Berlin, Germany
President of the Spine Arthroplasty Society

Anthoni Castelvi, MD

Keynote Speaker
Florida Orthopaedic Institute
Tampa, Florida, USA
Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education and the organizer of the Preservation of Motion in the Spine annual meetings.

Raja Chaftari, MD

Professor, Department of Orthopaedic surgery
Lebanese University School of Medicine
Beirut, Lebanon
Co-founder and President of the S.P.I.N.E Society

Kamal Chemali, MD

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code S90
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

Nicolas Christodoulou

President of the Mediterranean Forum of PRM
President of the Cyprus Society of PRM

Fernand Dagher, MD

University St Joseph, Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon

Youssef Daher, MD

Beirut, Lebanon

Jose De Andres MD, PhD, FIPP

Chairman, Anesthesia, Critical Care & Multidisciplinary Pain Management Department, General University Hospital
Valencia, Spain

Atique Durrani, MD

Assistant Professor of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,
Cincinnati, USA

Nadim Efeich, MD

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Maged El-Ansary, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Al-Azhar University Hospitals,
Cairo, Egypt
Secretary General, Egyptian Society for the Management of Pain (ESMP) President, African Association for the Study of Pain (AASP)

Farouq El Hamdan, MD

Associate Professor, University of Texas, Galveston, USA

Ziad El Zoubi, MD

Consultant
Jordan Orthopaedic & Spinal Center
Amman, Jordan

Youssry Elhawary, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic surgery
Department of Orthopaedic surgery. Cairo University,
Cairo, Egypt
President of Pan Arab Spine Society

Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP

Keynote Speaker
Professor, Department of Algology, Medical Faculty of Istanbul
Istanbul University,
Istanbul, Turkey
Founder and WIP President, 2008-2011

Zsolt Fekete, MD

Roland Klinik, Spine Center, Bremen
Niedersachsendamm
Bremen, Germany

Ismat Ghanem, MD

Beirut, Lebanon

James Gorman, MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer and CEO
BioAssets Development Corporation
Wellesley, Massachusetts 01760

Nicolas Graveleau, MD

CHC Paris 5, France

R.P. Gehdoo, MD, DA

Professor, of Anaesthesia and Pain at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mombai, India Former President of the Indian Society for the Study of Pain (ISSP), Former General Secretary of Indian Society for the Study Of Pain

Munish C. Gupta, MD

Professor, Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Clinical Co-Director of the Spine Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

Antoine Haddad, MD

Beirut, Lebanon

Thamer Hamdan, MD

Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Dean, Basrah Medical College
SICOT, National Delegate
Basrah, Irak

Salim Hayek, MD

Division Chief, Associate Professor
Division of Pain Medicine
University Hospitals
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, USA

Patrick Hitchon, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering
Chief of Neurosurgical Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
University of Iowa Hospitals
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA, USA

Magdi Ramzi Iskander, M.D, FFARCS, FIPP

Prof. of Anaesthesia and Algesilogy, & Chairman of Anaesthetic & Pain Relief Department,
National Cancer Institute, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Emad Jafar, MD

Amman, Jordan

Mohamad Jamous, MD

Consultant Neurosurgeon, King Abdulla University Hospital
Assistant Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology,
Irbid, Jordan

Abdallah Kabbara, MD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology / Pain Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Wael Kawash, MD

KSA

Khaled Kebaish, MD

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 601 North Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD, USA

Khalil Kharrat, MD

Profesor, St Joseph University,
Beirut, Lebanon

Salam Koussa

President of the Lebanese Society of Neurology

Carl Lauryssen, MD

Tower Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Spine Institute
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Richard McCarthy, MD

Keynote Speaker
Professor, University of Arkansans, Arkansans, USA
Scoliosis Research Society, President Elect

Mohammad Maziad, MD

Chairman and Professor
Orthopedic Department
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
President of SAS ME chapter

Ali Mchauorab, MD

Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology - Pain Medicine
VA Medical Center,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Abdel Kader Mehio, MD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Boston University,
Boston, MA, USA

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD

Keynote Speaker
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pain Management
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA

Anis Mekhail, MD

Parkview Musculoskel Inst.
Chicago, IL, USA

Amr Montasser, MD

Professor, Head of The Clinical Sciences department of The Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Chief of Anesthesia, The International Neuro-Skeletal Center,
Cairo, EGYPT

Hussein Nagi, MBBCh, MSc, FFARCSI, FRCA, MSc

Life coaching Diploma
Consultant in Anaesthetics & Pain Management, Birmingham City Hospital
Blackwell, Bromsgrove, UK

Jalal Najjar, MD

Secretary of Neurosurgical Society Damascus Syria

Antoine Nashanakian, MD

Balamand University,
Beirut, Lebanon

Alex Nehme, MD

Department of Orthopedic surgery
Assistant professor, Balamand University, Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon â€“ Saint Georges University Hospital
Beirut, Lebanon

Chaouki Nohra, MD

Lebanese University,
Beirut, Lebanon

Dan Plev, MD

Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon
The London Spine Clinic London,
London, UK

Kenneth A. Pettine, MD

Keynote Speaker
General Orthopedics
Acute and Chronic Neck and Back Pain
Joint Replacement Surgery
Mini-Incision Hip Replacement Surgery
Co-Inventor, Maverick™ Artificial Disc
Loveland Colorado, USA

Chitranjan S, Ranawat, M.D.

Featured Speaker
Professor and The James Nicholas Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Ranawat Orthopaedics Center at Lenox Hill Hospital,
New York, NY, USA

Richard Rauck, MD

Keynote Speaker
Professor, Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC
President for Sceptor Foundation for Pain Management of which he is a founding member, board member for Hospice and Palliative Care Center of Winston Salem, and Treasurer on the Executive Board of World Institute of Pain

Wolfgang Rauschning, MD, PhD

Keynote Speaker
Research Professor, Clinical and Applied Anatomy and Pathology
Uppsala University Hospital
Uppsala, Sweden

Gary Schneiderman, MD

Sutter Neuroscience Medical Group
Sacramento, California, USA

Hassan Serhan, PhD

Co-Founder S.P.I.N.E Society,
Co-Chairman, Spine Program.
Distinguished Fellow
DePuy Spine,
Raynham, MA, USA

Daniel Shedid, MD

Spine Surgery/NeurosurgeryCleveland Clinic,Cleveland, OH

Harry L. Shufflebarger MD

Keynote Speaker
Chief, Division of Spinal Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Miami Children’s Hospital. Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine. Past President of the Scoliosis Research Society.
Miami, Florida, USA

Ghassan Skaf, MD

Professor, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Se Il Suk, MD

Featured Speaker
Professor and Director Seoul Spine Institute, Inje University Sanggye-Paik Hospital
Seoul, Korea

Tony Tannoury, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University
School of Medicine,
Boston, MA
Founder and President of the S.P.I.N.E. Society

Alexander R. Vaccaro, M.D, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker
Professor, Co-Chief, Spine Surgery and Spine Fellowship Program
Co-Director, Delaware Valley Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
Department of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
The Rothman Institute
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Tarek Yazer, MD

Professor,
Istanbul, Turkey

Hansen Yuan, MD

Keynote Speaker
Professor of Orthopaedic and Neurological Surgery
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Spine Arthroplasty Society Immediate past president, Past president of the North American Spine Society

Maen Zaem, MD

Spine and Orthopaedic Surgery Consultant
Aleppo, Syria

Faissal Zahrawi, MD, FACS

Medical Director of the Spine Center
Florida Hospital Celebration Health
Celebration, Fl, USA

Mehmet Zileli, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery
Head of the Spine Section
Neurosurgery Department,
Ege University Faculty of Medicine
Izmir, Turkey.
President of the Turkish Neurosurgical Society, Chairman of the World Spine IV Congress, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Annual Meeting

Our Faculty

John Abdelnoor, MD

Anil Agarwal, MD

Imad Hashim Ahmad, MD

Hammam Akbik, MD

Gülseren Derya Akyüz, MD

Nasser Ani, MD

Jean Noel Argenson, MD

Jean Noel Argenson, MD

John Asghar, MD

Dwarkadas Kanhayalal Baheti, MD

Gamal Baroud, PhD

Thomas Bauer, MD

Karin Buttner-Jans, MD

Anthoni Castelvi, MD

Raja Chaftari, MD

Kamal Chemali, MD

Nicolas Christodoulou

Fernand Dagher, MD

Youssef Daher, MD

Jose De Andres MD, PhD, FIPP

Atique Durrani, MD

Nadim Efeich, MD

Maged El-Ansary, MD

Farouq El Hamdan, MD

Ziad El Zoubi, MD

Youssry Elhawary, MD

Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP

Zsolt Fekete, MD

Ismat Ghanem, MD

James Gorman, MD, PhD

Nicolas Graveleau, MD

R.P. Gehdoo, MD, DA

Munish C. Gupta, MD

Antoine Haddad, MD

Thamer Hamdan, MD

Salim Hayek, MD

Patrick Hitchon, MD

Magdi Ramzi Iskander, M.D, FFARCS, FIPP

Emad Jafar, MD

Mohamad Jamous, MD

Abdallah Kabbara, MD

Wael Kawash, MD

Khaled Kebaish, MD

Khalil Kharrat, MD

Salam Koussa

Carl Lauryssen, MD

Richard McCarthy, MD

Mohammad Maziad, MD

Ali Mchauorab, MD

Abdel Kader Mehio, MD

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD

Anis Mekhail, MD

Amr Montasser, MD

Hussein Nagi, MBBCh, MSc, FFARCSI, FRCA, MSc

Jalal Najjar, MD

Antoine Nashanakian, MD

Alex Nehme, MD

Chaouki Nohra, MD

Dan Plev, MD

Kenneth A. Pettine, MD

Chitranjan S, Ranawat, M.D.

Richard Rauck, MD

Wolfgang Rauschning, MD, PhD

Gary Schneiderman, MD

Hassan Serhan, PhD

Daniel Shedid, MD

Harry L. Shufflebarger MD

Ghassan Skaf, MD

Se Il Suk, MD

Tony Tannoury, MD

Alexander R. Vaccaro, M.D, Ph.D.

Tarek Yazer, MD

Hansen Yuan, MD

Maen Zaem, MD

Faissal Zahrawi, MD, FACS

Mehmet Zileli, MD

Links of Interest

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