Skip to main content
2024 DSPN Spine Summit Main banner
Back

Bizhan Aarabi, MD

Professor
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD, US

Born in Iran (Abadeh) in 1947, I had my education at Ferdowsi Elementary School (1953-59), Saadi High School (1959-1965), Pahlavi University Schools of Arts and Sciences (1965-1967) and Pahlavi University School of Medicine (1967-1973). My neurosurgical internship at the Nemazee Hospital (1973) was mentored by Kazem Abbassioun, trained by Earl Walker and George Udvarhelyi at the Johns Hopkins. I moved to Chicago in 1973 and had one year of straight surgical internship (1973-1974) at the Cook County Hospital of which 6 months was with Roy Selby at the division of neurosurgery affiliated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine (Chaired by Oscar Sugar). I completed my neurosurgical training under D M Long at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and in July of 1979 moved back to Shiraz to chair the Division of Neurosurgery as an Associate Professor in Neurological Surgery. From 1979-1995 I was in Shiraz where I performed cohort studies in infectious and hemorrhagic complications of missile head wounds during Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and published my first book “Beyond Coma”. During 1982 and 1983 I was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and Royal College of Surgeons of Canada respectively. In 1995 I accepted a full-time position at the Division of Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska School of Medicine where I collaborated with Drs. Robert Florin and Beverly C Walters in production of the AANS/CNS mandated “Guidelines and Prognosis of Penetrating Brain Injury”. In 1999 with the approval of the Publications Committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons I edited a 2 Volume Book “Missile Wounds of the Head and Neck”. My co-editor was Dr. Howard H Kaufman. In 2000, I was recruited by Dr. Howard Eisenberg as the Director of Neurotrauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In 2013 I collaborated with Drs Mark Hadley and Beverly C Walters to produce AANS/CNS “Guidelines for Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries. In 2017 I collaborated with Dr Michael Fehlings (University of Toronto) in production of “A clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Patients with Acute Spinal Cord Injury”. Most of my academic research at the University of Maryland has been on acute cervical spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injury. In 2018 I edited the book “Decompressive Craniectomy” which was coedited by Dr. Marc Simard and published by NOVA.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

Email Bizhan