University of Illinois
Medical Center
at Chicago

F. Charbel, MD

C. Agner, MD, MSc

V. Aletich, MS, MD

S. Amin-Hanjani, MD

M. Barua, MD

R. Deveshwar, MD

H. Engelhard, MD, PhD

Y. Gandhi, MD

Y. Hahn, MD

T. Hersonskey, MD

M. Lemole, MD

D. Nikas, MD

B. Roitberg, MD

S. Sinha Roy, MD

K. Slavin, MD

J. Stone, MD

University of Illinois
Department of Neurosurgery
912 S. Wood Street
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60612
phone: 312-996-4842

Fady T. Charbel, MD, FACS
Professor and Head
Chief of Neurovascular Section

Email: fcharbel@uic.edu

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

Clinical:

• Head, Department of Neurosurgery
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Director, Residency Program,
  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

Hospital:

• University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
• Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village, IL
• Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL
• St. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago

Achievements/Awards:

• 2006 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards:
  Medical Devices, Runner-up
  Top Surgeon, America's Top Surgeons, Consumers' Research Council of America
• Best Doctor; Best Doctors in 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
• 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
• Neurosurgical critical care
• Surgical management of intractable epilepsy

Research Interests (link to research page)

• 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

• Guppy KH, Charbel FT, Corsten LA, Zhao M, Debrun G. Hemodynamic evaluation of basilar and vertebral artery angioplasty. Neurosurgery, August 2002; 327-33
• Thorton J, Debrun GM, Aletich VA, Bashir Q, Charbel FT, Ausman J. Follow-up angiography of intracranial aneurysms treated with endovascular placement of Guglielmi detachable coils. Neurosurgery. February 2002;239-49.
• Charbel FT, Zhao M, Hanjani S, Hoffman W, Du X, Clark ME. A patient specific computer model to predict outcomes of the balloon occlusion test. J Neurosurg. 101: 977-988, 2004.
• Hanjani S, Du X, Mlinarevich N, Meglio G, Zhao M, Charbel FT. The Cut Flow Index: an intraoperative predictor of the success of EC-IC bypass for occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Neurosurgery, Jan 2005; 56: 75-85.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Zhao M, Walsh K, Malisch TW, Charbel FT. Use of quantitative magnetic resonance angiography to stratify stroke risk in symptomatic vertebrobasilar disease. Stroke, Jun 2005; 36(6): 1140-5.