RabihGergesTawkMDFAANS

Summary

• Dr. Tawk attended Bcharre’s Official School to attain his Pre-Medical Education in 1992. He obtained his M.D. from the Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences in 2001. Dr. Tawk started his first residency with Staten Island University Hospital in the General Surgery Department in 2003, and started his Oncologic Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery fellowship in 2004. He then started another residency at State University of New York at Buffalo, which he completed in 2009. He then started an Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship, which he completed in 2010.
  Dr. Tawk’s clinical interests include:
  •    Cerebral aneursyms
  •    Cerebral arteriovenous malformations
  •    Cavernous malformations
  •    Arteriovenous fistulae
  •    Pituitary tumors
  •    Moyamoya disease
  •    Skull base endoscopic surgery
  •    Spine arteriovenous malformations
  •    Stroke
  •    Carotid artery disease
  Dr. Tawk treats the following conditions:
  •    Arteriovenous fistula
  •    Arteriovenous malformation
  •    Brain aneurysm
  •    Brain AVM
  •    Carotid artery disease
  •    Cavernous malformations
  •    Moyamoya disease
  •    Pituitary tumor
  •    Spinal arteriovenous malformation
  •    Stroke
  Dr. Tawk is also a member of American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Cerebrovascular Section), World Association of Lebanese Neurosurgeons, Society of Neuro-Interventional Surgery and Southern Neurosurgical Society. He is also a CAST certified physician, Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Stroke Center, and the Director of the Neuro-Endovascular Fellowship Program at Mayo Clinic as well.

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