University of Chicago Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. Issam A. Awad, MD
Issam Awad works in the field of Neurosurgery. He studied medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He received 44 awards: "Senior Faculty Scholar Award", "The John Harper Seeley Professorship (Endowed Chair)", "Lifetime Distinction and Contribution Award", "Shield of Distinction and Merit", "The Sir Victor Horsley Lecturer", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "The Diana Tamari Sabbagh Lecturer", "The Paul C. Bucy Award for Excellence in Neurosurgical Education", "Leading Health Professionals of the World, Top 100 Health Professionals", "Whos Who Among Executives and Professionals", "Academic Excellence Award, Highest Academic Achievement in the Department of Surgery", "International Health Professional of the Year", "Distinguished Service Award", "Commission des Theses", "Butcher Award for Genomics Research", "Foundations in Doctoring Teacher Award", "World Innovation Foundation (Invited Fellow)", "Twenty Second J. Jay Keegan Visiting Professor", "Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century", "21st Century Award for Achievement", "Whos Who Among Americas Teachers", "Americas Top Doctors", "The Ogsbury-Kindt Professor of Neurosurgery", "Neurosurgical Society Visiting Professor", "President", "The 4th Tindall Distinguished Professor", "Honored Alumnus", "Invited Nominator, The Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine", "Best Doctors in America (National listing)", "Strathmores Whos Who", "The Nixdorff-German Endowed Professorship Chair in Neurosurgery", "Best Doctors in America (Neurosurgery)", "The Rasmussen Lecturer", "Honorary Master of Arts (Privatim)", "Harry Wilkins Visiting Professor", "Who's Who in Medicine and the Health Professions", "The Oldendorf Award", "The Pudenz Award for Excellence in Hydrocephalus Research.", "Crile traveling Fellowship Award", "First Prize in Neuroscience Research, Housestaff Category", "Donald E. Griggs Medical Scholarship Award", "Student Investigator of the Year Prize", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Issam Awad has written publications. He has 59 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Peripheral plasma vitamin D and non-HDL cholesterol reflect the severity of cerebral cavernous malformation disease.' Dr. Issam A. Awad accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Peripheral plasma vitamin D and non-HDL cholesterol reflect the severity of Cerebral cavernous malformation disease.
- Bleeding and Infection With External Ventricular Drainage: A Systematic Review in Comparison With Adjudicated Adverse Events in the Ongoing Clot Lysis Evaluating Accel...
- Exceptional aggressiveness of Cerebral cavernous malformation disease associated with PDCD10 mutations.
- Lesions from patients with sporadic Cerebral cavernous malformations harbor somatic mutations in the CCM genes: Evidence for a common biochemical pathway for CCM patho...
- Evaluation of Iron Content in Human Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping.
- Spontaneous intraCerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage: advances in minimally invasive surgery and thrombolytic evacuation, and lessons learned in recent trials.
- DBS reduced hemichorea associated with a developmental venous anomaly and microbleeding in STN.
- Fenestration of supraclinoid internal carotid artery and associated Aneurysm: embryogenesis, recognition, and management.
- Ventricular Catheter Location and the Clearance of Intraventricular Hemorrhage.
- Fasudil Decreases Lesion Burden in a Murine Model of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Disease.
- External Ventricular Drainage for Intraventricular Hemorrhage.
- Drainage Efficiency with Dual Versus Single Catheters in Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage.
- A founder mutation in the Ashkenazi Jewish population affecting messenger RNA splicing of the CCM2 gene causes Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of Cerebral cavernous malformations with susceptibility-weighted imaging.
- Emerging clinical imaging techniques for cerebral cavernous malformations: a Systematic review.
- Cerebral cavernous malformations as a disease of vascular permeability: from bench to bedside with caution.
- Cerebral cavernous malformations proteins inhibit Rho kinase to stabilize vascular integrity.
- Cerebral cavernous malformations: somatic mutations in vascular endothelial cells.
- Cavernous malformations of the basal ganglia and thalamus.
- Immune response in human Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- From mutant mice to "vascular permeability therapy" in cavernous angiomas?
- Brainstem cavernous malformations.
- Radiosurgery for angiographically occult vascular malformations.
- Genomics of human intracranial Aneurysm wall.
- Episteme and the marvelous continuum in neurosurgical science.
- Outcome predictors and spectrum of treatment eligibility with prospective protocolized management of intraCerebral hemorrhage.
- Advances in open neurovascular surgery 2007.
- Chemistry of life: green fluorescent protein and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Advanced magnetic resonance imaging of Cerebral cavernous malformations: part II. Imaging of lesions in murine models.
- Advanced magnetic resonance imaging of Cerebral cavernous malformations: part I. High-field imaging of excised human lesions.
- Engineering the ideal bypass graft.
- Surrogate measures of outcome in clinical trials: clues worth examining?
- Current updates in perioperative management of intraCerebral hemorrhage.
- Neurosurgery and big science.
- Different spectra of genomic deletions within the CCM genes between Italian and American CCM patient cohorts.
- Oligoclonal immune response in Cerebral cavernous malformations. Laboratory investigation.
- Concepts and hypotheses: inflammatory hypothesis in the pathogenesis of Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Spectrum of genotype and clinical manifestations in Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Retrograde suction decompression of giant paraclinoid Aneurysms using a No. 7 French balloon-containing guide catheter. Technical note.
- How frequently should we follow small asymptomatic intracranial Aneurysms?
- Cerebral cavernous malformations: clinical insights from genetic studies.
- Ruptured superior cerebellar artery Aneurysm in a child with bilateral fibromuscular hyperplasia of the renal arteries: case report and review of the literature.
- Temporary and permanent occlusion of cervical and Cerebral arteries.
- Intracranial cavernous angioma: a practical review of clinical and biological aspects.
- Unfolding knowledge on Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Biallelic somatic and germ line CCM1 truncating mutations in a Cerebral cavernous malformation lesion.
- Neuroendovascular interventions for intracranial posterior circulation Disease via the transradial approach: technical case report.
- Variations in structural protein expression and endothelial cell proliferation in relation to clinical manifestations of Cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Update on current registries and trials of carotid Artery angioplasty and stent placement.
- Multiple Spinal cavernous malformations with atypical phenotype after prior irradiation: case report.
- Pathobiology of human Cerebrovascular malformations: basic mechanisms and clinical relevance.
- What genes can teach us about human Cerebrovascular malformations.
- Mutational analysis of 206 families with cavernous malformations.
- Spine patient outcomes research trial.
- Differential gene expression in human Cerebrovascular malformations.
- Further study of CD31 protein and messenger ribonucleic acid expression in human Cerebral vascular malformations.
- Ode to meaning and relevance.
- Brainstem Cavernous Malformations: 1390 Surgical Cases from the Literature.
Schools
Loma Linda University School Of Medicine
Loma Linda University
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Barrow Neur Institute
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Lamina Procedures (incl. Laminectomy, Laminoplasty, Laminotomy)
- Nerve Destruction by Neurolytic Agent
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Conditions Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Senior Faculty Scholar Award
- The John Harper Seeley Professorship (Endowed Chair)
- Lifetime Distinction and Contribution Award
- Shield of Distinction and Merit
- The Sir Victor Horsley Lecturer
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- The Diana Tamari Sabbagh Lecturer
- The Paul C. Bucy Award for Excellence in Neurosurgical Education
- Leading Health Professionals of the World, Top 100 Health Professionals
- Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals
- Academic Excellence Award, Highest Academic Achievement in the Department of Surgery
- International Health Professional of the Year
- Distinguished Service Award
- Commission des Theses
- Butcher Award for Genomics Research
- Foundations in Doctoring Teacher Award
- World Innovation Foundation (Invited Fellow)
- Twenty Second J. Jay Keegan Visiting Professor
- Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century
- 21st Century Award for Achievement
- Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
- America’s Top Doctors
- The Ogsbury-Kindt Professor of Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgical Society Visiting Professor
- President
- The 4th Tindall Distinguished Professor
- Honored Alumnus
- Invited Nominator, The Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine
- Best Doctors in America (National listing)
- Strathmore’s Who’s Who
- The Nixdorff-German Endowed Professorship Chair in Neurosurgery
- Best Doctors in America (Neurosurgery)
- The Rasmussen Lecturer
- Honorary Master of Arts (Privatim)
- Harry Wilkins Visiting Professor
- Who's Who in Medicine and the Health Professions
- The Oldendorf Award
- The Pudenz Award for “Excellence in Hydrocephalus Research.â€Â
- Crile traveling Fellowship Award
- “First Prize in Neuroscience Researchâ€Â, Housestaff Category
- Donald E. Griggs Medical Scholarship Award
- “Student Investigator of the Year†Prize
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Barrow Neurological Institute -
Cleveland Clinic Foundation -
Loma Linda University -
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Chicago Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1699781690 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | AWAD | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ISSAM | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 602011718 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IL | |
| Specialty Description | Neurosurgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 15.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1699781690 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | AWAD |
| First Name Of The Provider | ISSAM |
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