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Department of Neurosurgery

Houston, Texas

Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
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Youssef G. Comair, M.D., FRCSC

Professor and Vice Chair
Chief of Service, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital

Board Certification
American Board of Neurological Surgeons
Royal College of Surgeons of Canada

Medical School
St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

Residency
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University & Affiliated Hospitals

Fellowship
Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada

Awards and Honors
Wilder Penfield Award, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

McNaughton Award, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

R.P.M. Donaghy Award for Cerebrovascular Research

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

Primary Neurosugical Interests - Clinical
Brain tumors, brain mapping and surgery in eloquent brain, pituitary tumors, parasellar tumors, Chiari malformations and syringomyelia, trigeminal neuralgia, radiosurgery, and surgery for movement disorders - Parkinson’s disease and torticollis

Books

Tamraz J and Comair YG. Atlas of Regional Anatomy of the Brain using MR with Functional Correlates. Springer Verlag. Berlin, 2000. (Translated to Chinese)

Luders H and Comair YG. Epilepsy Surgery, 2nd Ed., Lippincott Raven, New York, 2000.

Publications

Mikati MA, Comair YG, Rahi A. Normalization of quality of life three years after temporal lobectomy: a controlled study. Epilepsia 2006; 47(5):928-33.

Wyllie E, Comair YG, Kotagal P, Bulacio J, Bingaman W, Ruggieri P. Seizures outcome after epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents. Ann Neurol 1998; 44(5):740-748.

Luders HO, Comair YG, Bleasel AF, Holthausen H. Recovery of function following lesions of eloquent brain areas. Adv Neurol 1997; 73:335-346.

Ying Z, Comair YG, Bingaman W, Bushey M, Touhalisky. Induced expressions of NMDAR2 proteins and differential expressions of NMDAR1 splice variants in dysplastic neurons of human epileptic neocortex. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1998; 57(1):47-62.

Rhoten RL, Comair YG, Shedid D, Chyatte D, Simonson MS. Specific repression of the preproendothelin-1 gene in intracranial arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg 1997; 86(1):101- 108.

Bleasal A, Comair YG Luders HO. Surgical ablations of the mesial frontal lobe in humans. In: Supplementary Sensorimotor Area Advances in Neurology, Vol 70. Luders HO (ed). Lippincott - Raven Publishers, New York, 1996, pp. 217-235.

Khajavi K, Comair YG, Prayson RA, Wyllie E, Palmer J, Estes ML, Hahn JF. Childhood ganglioglioma and medically intractable epilepsy: A clinicopathologic study of 15 patients and a review of the literature. Pediatr Neurosurg 1995; 22:181-188.

Ng TC, Comair YG, Xue M, So N, Majors A, Kolem H, Luders H, Modic M: Temporal lobe epilepsy: Presurgical localization with proton chemical shift imaging. Radiology 1994; 193:465-472.

Comair YG, Schipper HM, Brem S. The prevention of oxyhemoglobin-induced endothelial and smooth muscle cytoskeletal injury by deferoxamine. Neurosurgery 1993; 32:58-65.