Youssef Fares ( ar, يوسف فارس) is a Lebanese neurosurgeon, academic and healthcare leader. He is a Professor and the Dean of the

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, where he also serves as the founding director of the Neuroscience Research Center. Fares is also the CEO and Chairman of Al-Zahraa Hospital University Medical Center, the founding president of the Lebanese Association of Spine Surgery and the Senior Executive Vice President of the World Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, he serves as an editor for the neurosurgical journal ''

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''. In March 2020, Fares was elected into the

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Early life and education

Fares was born and raised in Lebanon. In 1982, he moved to Spain to attain an MD from the

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in 1987 and a

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in Medicine and Surgery ''

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'' from the

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in 1992. He also finished an

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with honors from the

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in 2019. Fares completed his training in neurosurgery at the of the Autonomous University of Madrid and attained his Board Certification from the

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in 1993. He further pursued numerous fellowships in

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neurosurgery at the Hospital Infanta Cristina de Badajoz, pediatric neurosurgery at the ,

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at the

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and neuronavigation at the

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Career

Since 1994, Fares has been a member of the faculty of medicine at the

, where he is a

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. In 2020, he was appointed the

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of the Faculty of Medicine. In 2014, he established the Neuroscience Research Center at the university that he currently serves as the Founding Director. He previously led the Department of Neurosurgery as its

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between 2009 and 2020 and served as the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 2012 to 2020. In 2016, Fares was appointed the

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and Chairman of Al-Zahraa Hospital–University Medical Center, a medical center in Lebanon. He transitioned the hospital to a full

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. Fares was appointed as the Senior Executive Vice President of the World Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017. In 2018, he established a headquarters for the academy in

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to serve the

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region. Fares is a

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, a Fellow of the

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and an International Member of the

American Association of Neurological Surgeons The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is a scientific and educational association focused on advancing the specialty of neurological surgery. The organization has over 8,000 members around the world. It is one of the five Conti ...

Research

Fares’s research in neurosurgery, neuroscience and conflict medicine led to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications that range between books, book chapters, original articles, reviews, editorials and conference proceedings. He co-developed the

Fares Scale of Injuries due to Cluster Munitions The Fares Scale of Injuries due to Cluster Munitions is an anatomical and neuropsychological classification method to identify and describe injury scales for victims of cluster munitions. It was published in 2013 by Lebanese physicians, Jawad F ...

to evaluate functional impairment in victims of

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Honors and awards

Fares was elected into the

in 2020. He is also an elected Fellow of the World Academy of Medical Sciences since 2017.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fares, Youssef Living people Lebanese chief executives Academic staff of Lebanese University European Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Year of birth missing (living people)