Name: Osama Saad Abdelaziz, M.B.Ch.B, M.Ch.

Date Of Birth: August 4^th,1965 .

Place Of Birth: Al-Behira, Egypt.

Citizenship: Egyptian.

Home: 29 El-Bolbol St., Apt. # 8, Bolkly, Alexandria, Egypt.

Work: Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Home phone / Fax #: (203) 543-3346

Work phone #: (203) 483-8138

Work Fax #: (203) 483-3076

Languages:

• Fluent in written and spoken Arabic ( primary language ).
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Primary and secondary schooling at Al-Behira, Egypt.

Medical Education:……………………….….October 1982- November 1988.

• Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt:

• BACHELOR DEGREE OF MEDICINE AND SURGER (M.B.,Ch.B ).
• With the general grade: Excellent with Honour.
• Position: 11^th ( 11^th out of 600 graduates ).
• Medical education was in English language.

Licence for the practice of Medicine and Surgery in Egypt.

Certificate #: 99324…………………….Issued on the 5^th of March 1990 .

• Alexandria University Hospitals :

Rotating internship in the following departments - two months each… ….………………………………………….March 1989- February 1990.

• Internal medicine.
• General surgery.
• Neurosurgery.
• Paediatrics.
• Obstetric and Gynaecology.
• Anaesthesia and Casualty.

• Ministry of Health: AL-Behira , Egypt :

Preventive Medicine Department as a General Practitioner……March 1990 - July 1990.

• Alexandria Military Hospital: …….…….July 1990 - September 1991.
• Alexandria University Hospitals:

Resident in Neurosurgery Department: …… September 1990 - September 1993.

• Master degree in Surgery ( M.Ch. Alex. ) with the general grade of "Very Good" from the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University .………………….June 1993.

• Preparing for the Doctoral degree in Neurosurgery with the thesis title

" Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial vascular and neoplastic lesions" …………..…….Registration date: August 1995 ( not finished yet ).

• Assistant lecturer in Neurosurgery Department, Faculty Of Medicine, Alexandria University …………………………..November 1993 - Till present.

• Research fellow in Neurosurgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA…………………..May 1996 - Till present.

• Congress Of Neurological Surgeons ( CNS ) 1997.
• American Association Of Neurological Surgeons ( AANS ) 1997.
• International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS) 1997.
• Egyptian Neurosurgical Society ( Pending ).

• " Management of ulnar nerve entrapment at the elbow "…………………………

……. Thesis for Master degree in surgery, presented and discussed on April 1993.

• "Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial vascular and neoplastic lesions…………. Thesis for Doctoral degree in neurosurgery ( not finished yet ).

• Presenting a talk on " Radiosurgery for intracranial lesions " in the Annual summer meeting of Egyptian Neurosurgical Society………………………September 1995.

Meetings and Courses attended:

• The Annual Congress of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt, July 1993.

• The Annual Congress of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt, July 1994.

• The Annual Summer Meeting of Egyptian Neurosurgical Society, Egypt, September 1993.

• The Annual Summer Meeting of Egyptian Neurosurgical Society, Egypt, September 1994.

• The Middle East Neurological Science Congress, Alexandria, Egypt, December 1991.

• Stereotactic radiosurgery , radiotherapy and neurosurgery lecture and hands-on workshop, Cairo , Egypt , March 1995.

• Stereotactic Target Localization. Workshop……Boston , MA , July 1996.
• Cell and tissue radiation biology course. Department of Radiation Oncology. Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA……..

……………….…………………………………September 1996 to February 1997.

• Tumors of the central nervous system. Brain tumor management….Boston , MA , November 1996.
• The American Association of Neurological Surgeons. 65^th annual meeting. Denver, Colorado, April 1997.
• Cerebral aneurysms and vascular malformations: 1997 and beyond. Boston, MA, May 1997.
• Radiation physics course. Department of Radiation Oncology. Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA…………………………July 1997.
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons. 47^th annual meeting. New Orleans, LA, September 1997.
• LINAC Radiosurgery-1997. Orlando, FL, December 1997.
• The American Association of Neurological Surgeons. 66^th annual meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1998.

1. Abdelaziz OS, Cosgrove GR. MRI-guided Stereotactic Cingulotomy For Intractable Psychiatric Disease. In: Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds). Neurosurgical operative atlas. Park Ridge, ILL: American association of Neurological Surgeons, 1998, vol 7, pp 135-140.

2. Cosgrove GR, Abdelaziz OS, Zervas NT. Interstitial Radiosurgery: The Photon Radiosurgical System. In: Alexander E III, Maciunas R (eds). Advanced neurosurgical navigation. New York, NY: Thieme ( in press ).

3. Abdelaziz OS, Cosgrove GR. Stereotactic cingulotomy for the treatment of chronic pain. In: Burchiel KJ (ed). Pain surgery. New York, NY: Thieme ( in press ).

4 Abdelaziz OS, Chapman PH, Loeffler JS. Wyburn-Mason syndrome variant treated with radiosurgery: case report and literature review ( submitted ).

5. Abdelaziz OS, Ogilvy CS, Lev M. Is there a potential role for hyoid bone compression in pathogenesis of carotid artery stenosis ? ( submitted ).

6. Abdelaziz OS, Cosgrove GR, Boyer PJ, Louis DN. Sporadic meningioangiomatosis: report of a case and review of the literature ( submitted ).

• Mohamed Gamal Asab, M.D.

Tel. #: ( 203) 482-0036

Fax #: ( 203 ) 483-3076

• Mohamed Khalid Zoheir, M.D.

• Nabil Abd El-Rahman, M.D.

Fax #: ( 203 ) 483-3076

• Paul H. Chapman, M.D.

• G. Rees Cosgrove, M.D., FRCS (C )

• Jay S. Loeffler, M.D.