Activity Directors
Hazem Assi, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology & Oncology
Director of Clinical Services – Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute
Medical Director of Specialty Clinic – Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut – Lebanon
Tracy Batchelor, MD
Neurologist-In-Chief Chair, Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Miriam Sydney Joseph Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
Wolfgang Wick, MD
Managing Director
Neurological Clinic & National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg
Heidelberg University Hospital
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany
Speakers
Hazem Assi, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology & Oncology
Director of Clinical Services – Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute
Medical Director of Specialty Clinic – Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut – Lebanon
Helen A. Shih, MD, MS, MPH, FASTRO
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
Director, CNS & Ocular Services, Department of Radiation Oncology
Medical Director, Proton Therapy Centers
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, USA
Houssein A. Darwish M.D
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Skull base, Vascular and Neuroendoscopy
Pituitary surgery
Stereotactic and Parkinson’s surgery
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon
Marwan Najjar, MD Professor, Neurosurgery
Department of Surgery
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon
Prof. Dr. Michael Platten, FEAN Department of Neurology
Mannheim University
Mannheim, Germany
Priscilla Brastianos, MD Terry and Jean de Gunzburg MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Central Nervous System Metastasis Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
R
oula Hourany, MD Professor of Clinical Specialty
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon
Toufic Eid, MD Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon

Tracy Batchelor, MD
Neurologist-In-Chief Chair, Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Miriam Sydney Joseph Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
Wolfgang Wick, MD Managing Director
Neurological Clinic & National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg
Heidelberg University Hospital
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany