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Isam A. Khoja

Isam A. Khoja MBBS

Chairman, Neurosurgery
Consultant, Neurosurgery

18 Years of Experience

SURGEON
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Languages:

  • English
  • Arabic

Education

1989 Medical School

Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery

King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

1989 - 1991 Residency

Resident, Neurology

Prince Sultan Medical City, Saudi Arabia

1992 - 1993 Residency

Resident, General Surgery

Washington Hospital Center, US

1995 - 2000 Residency

Resident, Neurosurgery

Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada

Fellowships

2001 Fellowship

Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada

Fellowship in Spine Surgery

2000 - 2001 Fellowship

University of Montreal, Canada

Fellowship in Epilepsy Surgery

1993 - 1994 Fellowship

National Institute of Mental Health, US

Research Fellowship, Basic Science

1991 - 1992 Fellowship

Johns Hopkins Hospital, US

Research Fellowship, Functional Neurosurgery

Work Experience

2014 - Present

Consultant, Neurosurgery

International Medical Center in Jeddah, KSA

2001 - 2014

Consultant, Neurosurgery

UPMC Hamot Hospital, Pennsylvania, US

Membership

  • American Association of Neurosurgery
  • Society of Neuroscience
  • American Medical Association
  • North American Spine Society
  • Pennsylvania Medical Society
  • Erie County Medical Society
  • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  • International Spine Arthroplasty Society

Achievements & Career Highlights

  • Honorary cited for participation in a desert mobile medical, field in Kuwait during the Desert Storm War, 1991
  • Penfield-McNaughton award in Neurosurgery, 1999

Publications

  • Thermal and Pain Sensation Evoked by Micro-electrode simulation in the Area of Human Ventro-Caudal Nucleus. Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 70, No. 1, July 1993
  • Disturbances in Cell Recognition Molecules (N-Cam and L1 Antigen) in the CSF of Patient with Schizophrenia. Experimental Neurology, 131(2):266-273, February 1995.
  • GFAP and Other Extracellular Matrix Molecules Level in the Basal Ganglia of Mice with Cortical Lesions. 
  • Secondary Changes in the Striatum after Injecting L1 antigen in Parkinson Model Mice.

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