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

Ali Araghi

Texas Back Institute
Arizona, 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

Karin Buttner-Jans, MD

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

Ali Bydon

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

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)

Youssry Elhawary, MD

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

Ismat Ghanem, MD

Beirut, Lebanon

Ziya Gokaslan, MD

Keynote Speaker
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

James Gorman, MD, PhD

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

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

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

Kamal Ibrahim, MD

Keynote Speaker
Clinical Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
Loyola University, Chicago
Chicago, IL, 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

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

Khaled Kebaish, MD

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

Khalil Kharrat, MD

Profesor, St Joseph University,
Beirut, Lebanon

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

Anis Mekhail, MD

Parkview Musculoskel Inst.
Chicago, IL, USA

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

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

Hassan Serhan, PhD

Co-Founder S.P.I.N.E Society,
Co-Chairman, Spine Program.
Distinguished Fellow
DePuy Spine,
Raynham, MA
Prestige Adj. Professor
University of Toledo, OH
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

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

Tarek Yazer, MD

Professor,
Istanbul, Turkey

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

2011 Annual Meeting