Experience

Fellowship/Internship:
Surgery Intern
Microsurgery Fellowship
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Clinical Fellow
Montreal Neurologic Institute
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Residency:
Neurosurgery Chief Resident
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Neurosurgery Resident
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Education

Medical School
St. Joseph’s University, Beirut, Lebanon M.D., 1984

Certifications

Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Medical Licensure
Illinois
Indiana

Appointments

Academic:

• Head, Department of Neurosurgery
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chief of Service,
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chief of Neurovascular Section,
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Director, Computer-Aided Neurovascular Analysis and Simulation (CANVAS) Program

Clinical:

• Chief of Service,
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chief of Neurovascular Section,
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hospital:

• University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System

Achievements/Awards

• Recipient of AANS Cushing Award for Technical Excellence and Innovation in Neurosurgery, 2017
• Named inaugural recipient of the Dr. Richard L. and Gertrude W. Fruin Professorship, 2014
• Best Doctor; Best Doctors in America, 2002-2014
• Named one of Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors®
• 2006 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards: Medical Devices, Runner-up
• Top Surgeon, America’s Top Surgeons, Consumers’ Research Council of America
• President, Chicago Neurological Society, 2005
• President and Founder, VasSol(TM) Inc.
• Patents: “Cerebral Circulation Model and Applications”
• Developer and co-inventor, The “Charbel Micro-flowprobe ®”. Transonic systems Inc.
• Inventor of the Year, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

Clinical Interests

• Diagnosis and management of stroke and ischemic cerebrovascular disease
• Brain aneurysms, AVM’s, cavernomas, Carotid and intra-cranial disease, Moya-Moya and vertebro-basilar insufficiency (VBI)
• Cerebral revascularization: bypass, carotid and vertebral artery surgery
• Surgical reconstruction of complex intracranial aneurysms
• Resection of AVMs
• Complex intracranial and skull base tumors, spinal cord tumors
• Microsurgery and endoscopic neurosurgery
• Image-guided neurosurgery
• Pituitary tumors
• Chiari Malformations
• Surgical management of intractable epilepsy
• Evaluation and surgical treatment of cervical degenerative disease
• Neurosurgical critical care

Research Interests

• Computer simulation of the cerebral circulation
• Phase-contrast MRI blood flow quantification
• Non-Invasive quantitative studies of brain tissue oxygenation and blood flow
• Brain tissue oxygenation and acid-base homeostasis
• Cerebral blood flow and metabolism
• Virtual simulation for neurosurgery

Selected Publications

• Festa JR, Schwarz LR, Pliskin N, Cullum CM, Lacritz L, Charbel FT, Mathews D, Starke RM, Connolly ES, Marshall RS, Lazar RM. Neurocognitive dysfunction in adult moyamoya disease. J Neuro. 2009 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print]
• Mery Francisco J; Amin-Hanjani Sepideh; Charbel Fady T., Is an angiographically obliterated aneurysm always secure? Neurosurgery 2008;62(4):979-82; discussion 982. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Ashley William W; Amin-Hanjani Sepideh; Alaraj Ali; Shin John H; Charbel Fady T, Flow-assisted surgical cerebral revascularization. Neurosurgical focus 2008;24(2):E20., Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
• Alaraj Ali; Ashley William W; Charbel Fady T; Amin-Hanjani Sepideh., The superficial temporal artery trunk as a donor vessel in cerebral revascularization: benefits and pitfalls., Neurosurgical focus 2008;24(2):E7., Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois 60612-5970, USA.
• Paisansathan C; Hoffman W E; Gatto R G; Baughman V L; Mueller M; Charbel F T, Increased brain oxygenation during intubation-related stress., European journal of anaesthesiology 2007;24(12):1016-20., University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Anesthesia, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
• Gatto Rodolfo; Hoffman William E; Mueller Mark; Paisansathan Chanannait; Charbel Fady, Age effects on brain oxygenation during hypercapnia., Journal of biomedical optics 2007;12(6):062113., University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Neurosurgery, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
• Banerjee P Pat; Luciano Cristian J; Lemole G Michael; Charbel Fady T; Oh Michael Y, Accuracy of ventriculostomy catheter placement using a head- and hand-tracked high-resolution virtual reality simulator with haptic feedback., Journal of neurosurgery 2007;107(3):515-21., Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago 60607, USA. banerjee@uic.edu
• Zhao M; Amin-Hanjani S; Ruland S; Curcio A P; Ostergren L; Charbel F T, Regional cerebral blood flow using quantitative MR angiography., AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2007;28(8):1470-3., Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612-5970, USA. mzhao@uic.edu
• Jho David H; Neckrysh Sergey; Hardman Julian; Charbel Fady T; Amin-Hanjani Sepideh, Ethylene oxide gas sterilization: a simple technique for storing explanted skull bone. Technical note., Journal of neurosurgery 2007;107(2):440-5., Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Gatto Rodolfo; Hoffman William; Paisansathan Chanannait; Mantulin William; Gratton Enrico; Charbel Fady T, Effect of age on brain oxygenation regulation during changes in position., Journal of neuroscience methods 2007;164(2):308-11., Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street 4th FL, NPI building, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. rgatto@uic.edu
• Lemole G Michael; Banerjee P Pat; Luciano Cristian; Neckrysh Sergey; Charbel Fady T, Virtual reality in neurosurgical education: part-task ventriculostomy simulation with dynamic visual and haptic feedback., Neurosurgery 2007;61(1):142-8; discussion 148-9., Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. mlemole@uic.edu

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