Salah Aoun, M.D.

Medical School

Saint Joseph University (2009), Medicine

Internship

Hotel -Dieu De France Hospital (2010), Surgery

Fellowship

Northwestern Univ.-Feinberg School of Medicine (2012), Research

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2012), Research

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2019), Neurological Surgery

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2020), Spine Surgery

Featured Publications

Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study.

Lancet 2020 07 396 10243 27-38

Electronic Communication Patterns Could Reflect Preoperative Anxiety and Serve as an Early Complication Warning in Elective Spine Surgery Patients with Affective Disorders: A Retrospective Analysis of a Cohort of 1199 Elective Spine Patients.

Christian ZK, Aoun SG, Afuwape O, Adeyemo E, Barrie U, Badejo O, Dosselman LJ, Pernik MN, Hall K, Reyes VP, El Ahmadieh TY, Al Tamimi M, Bagley CA, World Neurosurg 2020 Jun

The Hydrogel Endovascular Aneurysm Treatment Trial (HEAT): A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Second-Generation Hydrogel Coil.

Bendok BR, Abi-Aad KR, Ward JD, Kniss JF, Kwasny MJ, Rahme RJ, Aoun SG, El Ahmadieh TY, El Tecle NE, Zammar SG, Aoun RJN, Patra DP, Ansari SA, Raymond J, Woo HH, Fiorella D, Dabus G, Milot G, Delgado Almandoz JE, Scott JA, DeNardo AJ, Dashti SR, Neurosurgery 2020 May 86 5 615-624

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Reduces Post-Operative Opioid Use and 30-Day Readmission Rates After Open Thoracolumbar Fusion for Adult Degenerative Deformity.

Emmanuel A. Adeyemo, BA*; Salah G. Aoun, MD*; Umaru Barrie, BS; Madelina L. Nguyen, BS; Olatunde Badejo, BS; Mark N. Pernik, BA; Zachary Christian, BA; Luke J. Dosselman, BS; Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, MD; Kristen Hall, BS1; Valery Peinado Reyes, PA1; David L. McDonagh, MD; Carlos A. Bagley MD, MBA. Neurosurgery 2020

Stem cell injections for axial back pain: a systematic review of associated risks and complications with a case illustration of diffuse hyperplastic gliosis resulting in cauda equina syndrome.

Aoun SG, Peinado Reyes V, El Ahmadieh TY, Davies M, Patel AR, Ban VS, Plitt A, El Tecle NE, Moreno JR, Raisanen J, Bagley CA, J Neurosurg Spine 2019 Sep 1-8

Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Aspiration of a Spinal Epidural Dermoid Cyst Extending From T10 to the Sacrum: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.

Hatchette CV, Aoun SG, El Ahmadieh TY, Smalley L, Patel AR, Zhao L, Singla N, Mauck R, Rickert KL, Whitworth T, Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2019 08

Detection of delayed cerebral ischemia using objective pupillometry in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Aoun SG, Stutzman SE, Vo PN, El Ahmadieh TY, Osman M, Neeley O, Plitt A, Caruso JP, Aiyagari V, Atem F, Welch BG, White JA, Batjer HH, Olson DM, J. Neurosurg. 2019 Jan 1-6

Four-Level Vertebrectomy for En Bloc Resection of a Cervical Chordoma.

Aoun SG, Elguindy M, Barrie U, El Ahmadieh TY, Plitt A, Moreno JR, Truelson JM, Bagley CA, World Neurosurg 2018 Oct 118 316-323