Issam A. Awad, MD, MSc, Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), is a new neurosurgeon in the University of Chicago Department of Surgery. Dr Awad's clinical practice focuses on neurovascular surgery (cerebral aneurysms, vascular malformations, carotid surgery, brain ischemia and hemorrhage, neurovascular compression syndromes) and complex cranial pathology (cranial base tumors with dangerous neurovascular relationships).

With more than two decades of experience, Dr. Awad brings international recognition in the management of vascular malformations of the brain, particularly in cerebral cavernous malformations -- a type of vascular anomaly of the brain he has studied for nearly two decades and for which he has developed much of the current knowledge about the disease. He joins a team of leading experts in Neurologic Critical Care and Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology at the University of Chicago Hospitals, enhancing the team’s clinical breadth, depth and research contributions.

A leading expert in hemorrhagic stroke, Dr. Awad is currently the co-Principal Investigator on a recently launched Phase III Clinical Trial assessing intraventricular catheter administered thrombolysis for intraventricular hemorrhage, the most lethal and disabling type of hemorrhagic stroke. He is overseeing 50 surgical investigators around the world in a Phase II trial funded by the NIH. He has also helped pioneer minimally invasive interventions for intracerebral hemorrhage, now in Phase II clinical trial.

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