James Feghali

Thankful to @AKarimAhmed4 @FeghaliJames @BridgetENolan @EthanSrinivasan #WataruIshida @DardickJoe #CoryChang @jkhalifeh_md+ for leading our boot camp hands-on stations with bone drilling, EVD+VP shunts, suturing, craniometics, lumbar drains, laminectomies, pedicle screws & rods+

Extremely grateful for the mentors that helped bring this solution to our patients @fegomd #JuanGarcia @HopkinsNsurg @AANSCNStrauma #ClinicalTrial #ExOSkull External Postoperative Skull Prosthesis (ExO-Skull) for... : Journal of Craniofacial Surgery journals.lww.com/jcraniofacials…

We are thrilled to share that our own @tdazad will join @HopkinsSpine in January 2027! With advanced training in adult & pediatric spinal deformity, we are excited to welcome him to our growing program!

Enjoyed having @AKarimAhmed4 from @HopkinsNsurg visit us as part of the @TumorSection Travelling Fellowship! Thank you to @o8tNeuro for supporting this fun initiative!

I am so excited for @Joannaroy99 our research fellow who matched at @UICNeurosurgery ! She will thrive under the leadership of @DrFadyCharbel She is the best and she got the best !

We are thrilled to announce our new PGY-1 class! Meghana Bhimreddy @MegBhimreddy, Saket Myneni @SaketMyneni & Megan Parker from @JohnsHopkins & Harshal Shah @shaharshal99 from @ZuckerSoM @NorthwellHealth #Match2026 #MatchDay2026 @hopkinsmedicine

I am so proud of our superstar research fellows @Joannaroy99 and @MusmarBasel who just matched in Neurosurgery! Hard work pays off! Keeping the legacy going!

We have been helping IMGs match in Neurosurgery for the last 16 years in our post doc program @TJUHNeurosurg with a hit rate of 100%! This recent publication by our superstar post doc @Joannaroy99 shows that : 1-IMGs that match into neurosurgery demonstrate higher publication counts and greater research effort compared to U.S medical graduates 2-The proportion of high-effort publications relative to total publication output did not differ among both groups

@abdul_ghaith @NeurosurgeryUab @AUB_Lebanon @LebaUniversity @MayoClinicSOM @HopkinsMedicine @AUBMC_Official @UMBaltimore Mabrouk batal! Well deserved:))

August 4, 2020. The Beirut port explosion shattered my city. But the truth is, Lebanon had already been breaking long before that day. The economic collapse, the bankruptcy, the fear, the uncertainty, hospitals struggling to survive, and COVID pushing an already exhausted healthcare system even further, it felt like the ground was disappearing beneath all of us. Like many young physicians, I watched years of sacrifice suddenly lose their meaning. I was told I would need to redo years of training in a reality that no longer felt sustainable. For me, that was one of the most painful realizations of all, understanding that staying might mean watching the dream I had worked for my whole life slowly fade away. So I made the hardest decision of my life. I left Lebanon. I left my home, my city, my mentors, my friends, and the life I had always known. But the hardest part was leaving my family, my mother and father, whose sacrifices built me long before any title ever would, and my siblings, who carried my absence with love, patience, and strength. I left carrying grief, uncertainty, and one stubborn belief: this was not the end of my story. I came to the United States with $300 in my pocket and little more than determination. For nearly a year, I worked without pay, just trying to prove myself. I heard the doubts over and over again: “Stay in research.” “You probably won’t get into a PhD.” “This path is too hard. Forget about it.” “It will take too long.” But I kept going. Because sometimes faith has to speak louder than fear. Eventually, I was accepted into a PhD program at the #1 hospital in the world. Around that same time, one of the most beautiful chapters of my life began, I married the love of my life, just as things finally started becoming stable and my work became funded. They told me the PhD would take seven years. I finished it in three. Along the way, I secured more than four grants from a single project, led two major projects, and kept building when everything around me seemed to say slow down. At Mayo Clinic, I found a higher standard of excellence, discipline, rigor, humility, and a vision of what medicine and science can become when they are guided by purpose- a Neuroscientist. At Johns Hopkins: Research, innovation, and device development. I learned how to think bigger, work harder, and demand more from myself. Those years did not just train me, they transformed me- a biomedical engineer. And over time, the work grew into something I could never have imagined when I first arrived in this country: more than 120 publications and over 130 oral presentations and posters. But even then, something inside me had never changed. I missed the hospital. I missed patients. I missed the operating room. I missed the life I had always imagined for myself in medicine. So I made another difficult decision, to return fully to clinical medicine. That decision brought me to one of the most transformative chapters of my life: the University of Maryland Medical Center and Shock Trauma. There, surgeons, residents, nurses, mentors, and teams who challenged me, believed in me, sharpened me, and reminded me every day why I chose this path. The intensity of trauma, the discipline of surgery, and the privilege of caring for patients brought me back to my center. And through every chapter of this story, I was blessed with mentors who changed my life. People who opened doors for me when I could not yet see a way forward. People who corrected me, guided me, pushed me, and believed in me when the path was uncertain. I am deeply grateful to my mentors and to many others whose support I will carry with me forever. Today, after all of that, I am honored beyond words to share that I have matched as a PGY-2 Neurosurgery resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of the premier neurosurgical programs, renowned for its extraordinary surgical volume, pioneering innovation, and a legacy of mentorship.

We’re proud to have Dr. Youssef Comair at UChicago Medicine and are excited to highlight the exceptional care he provides. Dr. Comair offers expert treatment for a wide range of neurosurgical conditions, delivering advanced, patient-centered care with compassion and precision. If you or a loved one are seeking specialized neurosurgical expertise, we are currently scheduling patients. Contact our office to make an appointment. Contact our office: 7737022123

We are honored to see our faculty members recognized as 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctors! 👏👏to Drs. Allan Belzberg, @BettegowdaMDPHD, Henry Brem, @AlCohenMD, @DrJudyHuangMD, Shih-Chun Lin, Debraj Mukherjee (@NeuroOncSurgery), Rafael Tamargo & Jon Weingart!

Very excited to spend the next year treating our spine patients and learning from the best! @AB93849971 @DanielLubelski

We are over the 🌙 to share that our chief resident @jkhalifeh_md will remain with us as a spine fellow starting July 1.

The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) continues to advance its mission of excellence in healthcare and academic leadership with the appointment of two internationally acknowledged physician-scientists, Dr. Osama Mohamad as chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Dr. Haytham Kaafarani as chair of the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine (FM) and AUBMC. aub.edu.lb/articles/Pages… #AUB #AUBProud @AUB_FM @AUBMC_Official

Clinical AI doesn’t need better AUC. It needs better evaluation design. Benchmarks ≠ bedside readiness. Better evaluation will build clinician trust. New perspective in @NatureMedicine w/ @suchisaria & @hmkyale Link: rdcu.be/e0IkI

SubI season is just around the corner! Join @HopkinsNsurg's 3rd Annual SubI Boot Camp led by outstanding faculty & residents teaching fundamentals + preparing you to shine on rotation Sign up below, get free swag, & see you in-person/online on 3/28/26! tinyurl.com/nsurgbootcamp

Acoustic neuroma management is varied & nuanced Using SEER, @JulianGendreau @AKarimAhmed4+ recently found Asian & Hispanic patients are recommended surgery more often than counterparts, even after adjusting for age, tumor size, etc. Learn more below: tinyurl.com/2pumk34c

Chordomas are 1-in-a-million, requiring shared expertise to foster best results @SaketMyneni @AKarimAhmed4 @FoadKazemi1 @AniSaraswathula @NicholasRowanMD+ developed consensus-driven management strategies with @NASBSorg+@NSTumorSection in @JNeurooncol: tinyurl.com/zwkep9f5

An interesting study they may have implications for management of unruptured brain aneurysms in the future. In this TriNet-X analysis of thousands of diabetic patients with unruptured aneurysms, the risk of going on to bleed was lower for those on a GLP-1 receptor agonist. ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Neurorads performed better than Aidoc for intracranial aneurysm detection in sensitivity and accuracy, while achieving comparable specificity. On this podcast, I discuss the study and AI failure modes with Tunde Akinpelu @UWRadiology youtube.com/watch?v=33F3MU…