Issam A. Awad, MD, MSc, FACS, MA (hon)

The John Harper Seeley Professor
Surgery (Neurosurgery), Neurology and the Cancer Center Director of
Neurovascular Surgery
University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences

Lecture Titles:

• “Philosophy of Science in Relevance to Neurosurgery”
• “Deconstructing a Neurosurgical Disease: A Path to Therapy for Cerebral Cavernous Malformation"

READING:

For Saturday Lecture, "Philosophy of Science in Relevance to Neurosurgery"

• Galen’s anecdote of the fallen sophist: on the certainty of science through anatomy

For Sunday Lecture, and "Deconstructing a Neurosurgical Disease: A Path to Therapy for Cerebral Cavernous Malformation"

• Vascular permeability and iron deposition biomarkers in longitudinalfollow-up of cerebral cavernous malformations