CURRICULUM VITAE
Aboubakr Amer
Lecturer and consultant of Neurosurgery, Ain
Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Clinical spine surgery fellow, BIDMC, Harvard teaching hospital.
Former complex clinical spine surgery fellow, OSU, Ohio, USA.
Former clinical neurosurgery oncology fellow, Moffitt cancer center, Florida , USA.
Former clinical functional neurosurgery fellow, OSU, Ohio, USA.
aboubakrgamal@med.asu.edu.eg
atamer@bidmc.harvard.edu
aboubakrgamal@gmail.com
+1-8137313731
Education
9/1998-03/2006 Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery “Excellent With Honors, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2007 MRCS (member of Royal college of Surgeons of England) step one exam
2009 Master degree, General surgery, Essay “Evaluation of Endoscopic Sympathectomy in the Management of Hyperhidrosis” Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2015 The Neurosurgery Doctorate degree, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2011- 2018 USMLE exams step 1- 2 CK- 2 CS- step 3.
7/2016-7/2017 Clinical Functional Neurosurgery fellow, Ohio state University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
07/2017-08/2018 Consultant and Lecturer of Neurological Surgery Department in Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
08/2018-07/2019 Clinical neurosurgical oncology fellow, Moffitt cancer center, Tampa, Florida, USA
07/2019- 06/2020
07/2020- to date Clinical spine surgery fellow, Ohio, state university, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Clinical spine surgery fellow, BIDMC Harvard teaching hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Training
03/2005-03/2006 Internship, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
(Obligatory requirement by law before obtaining a license to Practice medicine) Training in various medical disciplines for 12 months in successive two-month rotations: Emergency department, Anesthesia, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Gynecology & Obstetrics, and Radiology.
3/2006-9/2006 Physician in a primary care center as an obligatory public service.
9/2006-8/2015 Resident of Neurological surgery department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
2012 Spine fellowship for one month with professor Mehmet Zileli, Izmir, Turkey.
11/2015-7/2016 Consultant, Neurological surgery department, Ain Shams University hospitals, Cairo, Egypt.
7/2016-7/2017 Clinical functional neurosurgery fellow, OSU, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
7/2017-8/2018 Consultant, neurological surgery, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt.
8/2018-7/2019 Clinical neurosurgical oncology fellow, Moffitt cancer center,
Tampa, Florida, USA.
07/2019-6/2020
07/2020- date Clinical spine surgery fellow, Ohio state university, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Clinical spine surgery fellow, BIDMC Harvard teaching hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Professional Experience
• Spine trauma surgeries.
• Head trauma surgeries.
• Lumbar and thoracic discectomy.
• Minimally invasive spine surgeries.
• Anterior cervical discectomy and plating.
• Lumbar, thoracic and cervical decompression and instrumented fusion surgeries.
• Posterior cervical decompression and fusion
• Scoliosis and kyphosis surgeries.
• TLIF and PLIF interbody fusion surgeries.
• Costotransversectomy and lateral extracavitary approaches for thoracic spine pathologies.
• Cervical laminoplasty.
• Spinal Cord tumors surgeries.
• Occipitocervical fusion surgeries.
• Spine deformity surgeries.
• Endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
• Endoscopic removal of third ventricular colloid cyst..
• Transcranial repair of CSF rhinorrhea.
• Brain tumor surgeries.
• Peripheral nerves surgeries.
• CSF shunting surgeries.
• Meningocele and encephalocele repair.
• Stereotactic biopsies for brain tumors and abscesses evacuation.
• Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia and hemi-fascial spasm.
• DBS surgery for movement disorders.
• Baclofen pump surgery for spasticity.
• Spinal cord stimulator for chronic pain patients.
• Peripheral nerve stimulators for chronic pain patients.
• Vertebroplasty.
Memberships
• Egyptian Association of Neurological Surgeons.
• AO Spine International.
• North American neuromodulation society.
• Lab faculty in the Cleveland spine review cadaveric course.
Publications
• 1- Ghany WA, Amer A, Saeed K, Emara E, Hamad A, Nosseir M, Dawood O, Nada MA. Evaluation of Interspinous Spacer Outcomes in Degenerative Lumbar Canal Stenosis: Clinical Study. World neurosurgery. 2016 Nov 1; 95:556-64.
• 2- Samak EM, Latif AM, Ghany WA, Hewedi IH, Amer A, Moharram H. Spinal intramedullary hamartoma with acute presentation in a 13-month old infant: case report. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 2016 Aug 1;18(2):177-82.
•
3- C1–2 facet disarticulation for correction of iatrogenic cervical kyphosis following occipital-cervical fusion. Miki Katzir MD, Aboubakr T. Amer MD, Asad S. Akhter MD, Stephanus V. Viljoen MD and Ehud Mendel MD, MBA. Neurosurgical focus, volume 3, issue 1.
4- Surgiflo induced textiloma exhibiting tumor mimicry after surgical resection of CNS Lymphoma, a summary of 3 cases. Shakfeh, K.1, Amer, A.2, Tran, N.2 Publication process
•
Research activities
• Peripheral field stimulation for the management of atypical facial pain (OSU study with Dr Milind Deogaonkar).
• Tractography based VIM targeting in DBS for essential tremor cases (OSU study with Dr Vibhor Krishna).
• Assessment of recurrent laryngeal nerve affection by preoperative and postoperative laryngoscopy in right anterior versus left anterior cervical approaches.
• Tractography based resection of occipital intraxial brain lesions (Moffitt cancer center with Dr Arnold Etame).
• Assessment of the effect of Diabetes and seizures on the post-operative length of hospital stay (Moffitt cancer center with Dr Nam Tran).
• Case series of Floseal Gossypiboma (Moffitt cancer center with Dr Nam Tran).
• Vertebroplasty: New technical note (Moffitt cancer center with Dr Nam Tran).
Areas of Special Interest
• Spine surgery ( deformity, minimally invasive surgeries and spine oncology)
• Neuro-oncology.
• Functional neurosurgery.
Conferences and Courses
Oral presentation in the 7th ISMISS Turkey Congress & 3rd Asian Congress of
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques” Antalya, Turkey, November 6-9, 2014 (interspinous spacers in degenerative lumbar canal stenosis, Does it affect outcome?
• Oral presentation in the WSSFN, Berlin, June, 2017
• ‘Tractography based VIM DBS targeting in the management of essential tremors’
• Cleveland Spine Review Course, Cleveland Clinic, USA from July 9-15, 2014 (attendant)
• Cleveland sine review course, Cleveland, Ohio, USA July 2017 as a lab faculty.
• The annual summer meeting of the department of neurosurgery Alexandria university in collaboration with the Egyptian society of neurological surgeons (ESNS)
• The fifth meeting of ESNS with Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt 2011
• The Egyptian spine association meeting, Luxor, Egypt 2012 (ESA)
• The Egyptian spine association meeting, Hurghada, Egypt 2013 (ESA)
• The annual meeting of the Egyptian society of neurological surgeons. (2015)
• Cleveland sine review course, Cleveland, Ohio, USA July 2019 as a lab faculty.
• Midwest spine symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
Honors
• The fourth prize in 7th ISMISS Turkey Congress & 3rd Asian Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques” for the abstract presented entitled (interspinous spacers in degenerative lumbar canal stenosis, Does it affect outcome?