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Dr. Remi Nader
Neurosurgeon, Co-host
On Rounds: brain, spine, and nerves
Credentials
- Medical degree, McGill University, Montreal (1999)
- General surgery internship and neurosurgery residency, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
- Fellowship in skull base surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- 18 months of training in neurosurgical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Double board certified in Canada and the United States
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
- Founder, International Center for Neuroscience, Houston (icnspine.com)
- Author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and of neurosurgery textbooks used to train residents
- Affiliate faculty, University of Texas, where he trains neurosurgery residents
- First surgeon in Mississippi to perform a spinal fusion using autologous stem cells
- Languages include English and French
On the show: Remi explains when surgery helps, when it does not, and what really happens before, during, and after an operation on the brain or spine.
Sources: icnspine.com/providers and Memorial Hermann doctor profile
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Dr. Marc-Elie Nader
ENT surgeon and neurotologist, Co-host
On Rounds: ear, nose, throat, head and neck, hearing and balance
Marc-Elie Nader, MD, CM, MSc, FRCS(C), FACS
Credentials
- Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, with a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery
- Residency Program Director, Head and Neck Surgery, MD Anderson
- Medical degree, McGill University (2007)
- MSc, University of Montreal
- Residency in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Montreal
- Clinical fellowship in Neurotology, Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson (2012 to 2014)
- Board certified in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, with subspecialty certification in Neurotology (2024)
- Clinical expertise: ear surgery, acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma), dizziness and vertigo, Meniere's disease, cochlear implants, hearing loss
- Adjunct associate professor, Baylor College of Medicine
- Speaks French and English
On the show: Marc-Elie covers the ear side of every crossover symptom, from tinnitus and vertigo to hearing loss and skull base tumors he treats with neurosurgery.
Source: MD Anderson faculty profile
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Joe Hajj
Host and producer
On Rounds: the questions patients actually ask
Background
- Founder of Webivores, a healthcare marketing agency
- In marketing since 2011
- Based in Montreal and Laval, Quebec
- Background in industrial engineering, with a degree from Concordia, so he thinks in systems and plain language
On the show: Joe is not a doctor. He asks the questions patients and families actually ask, steers the conversation, and owns production and publishing.
He also knows the patient's side of the table: he received a heart transplant in 2009.
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Irish
Possible recurring guest, to be confirmed
On Rounds, if she joins: the frontline and patient care view
Irish is a nurse practitioner and Remi's wife. If she takes part, she would bring the frontline and patient care view, the part of medicine patients meet first and most often.
Her participation is not confirmed yet, so this card stays a possibility, not a promise.