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Jawad Youssef Fares (Arabic: جواد يوسف فارس; born 1991 in Madrid, Spain) is a Lebanese physician-scientist. He was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in science and healthcare for his contribution to solving healthcare problems in the developing world. He also featured twice in the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30, and was selected as one of the top 10 young scientists in the world by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. In 2019, Fares was elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2021 was one of the Young Physician Leaders selected by the InterAcademy Partnership .

Early life

Fares was born in Spain and raised in Beirut, the eldest of four siblings of neurosurgeon Youssef Fares and architect-psychologist Aida Hoteit. He credits his upbringing for his thirst for knowledge and medical discovery. Fares earned a B.S. degree in Biology from the American University of Beirut, where he also attended medical school to acquire his M.D. degree. He, concurrently, attained an M.S. degree in Neuropsychology from the Lebanese University Neuroscience Research Center. In 2018, Fares moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral research in Neuro-oncology at Northwestern University. He further completed a postgraduate medical program in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics at Harvard Medical School.

Career

Fares served in several positions, as Senior Researcher at the Lebanese University Neuroscience Research Center, Research Fellow at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, and Visiting Researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University. As of July 2018, he is a postdoctoral fellow in neurological surgery at Northwestern University, where he conducts translational research on advanced brain tumors in the laboratory of Maciej Lesniak.

Research

Fares's research entails neuroscience, neurosurgery, conflict medicine and global health. In Lebanon, he explored injuries resulting from cluster munitions, which are bombs that release many smaller submunitions, to highlight the effects of these weapons on humanitarian and ecological levels. During the 2006 Lebanon War, it was estimated that 4.6 million submunitions were released over Lebanese soil, and almost one million of which remained unexploded. These unexploded bombs continued to injure and kill civilians after the war ended. Fares studied cases of amputations and injuries involving multiple regions of the body due to blast explosions. These injuries often led to disability, and significant social and mental health problems. His research led to the "Fares Scale of Injuries due to Cluster Munitions" that assesses injuries based on functional impairment. The scale helped better classify the wounds of victims and determine the best possible treatment.

At the Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Fares worked with Rolando Del Maestro on NeuroVR (previously NeuroTouch), a virtual reality neurosurgical simulator that provides a platform for training, planning and evaluating systems for patient-specific neurosurgical oncology and other advanced surgical procedures. Their work led to the validation of multiple neurosurgical scenarios on the NeuroVR.

Honors

• Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in Science & Healthcare, 2018
• Forbes Middle East – Arab 30 Under 30, 2018
• Top 10 Under 40, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 2018
• “Arab Youth Pioneer,” World Government Summit, Dubai, 2018
• The Distinguished Pioneer Award, Lebanese University, “for his outstanding scientific achievements,” 2018
• Award of Honor, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, “for his outstanding achievement in impactful humanitarian research,” 2018
• The NRC Medal of Honor, Lebanese University Neuroscience Research Center, “for his contribution to science and medicine,” 2018
• Elected Fellow, The World Academy of Medical Sciences, “for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences,” 2019
• Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30, 2019

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14. ^ Fares, Jawad; Fares, Youssef (2018). "Cluster munitions: military use and civilian health hazards". World Health Organization. 96 (8): 584–585. doi:10.2471/BLT.17.202481 (inactive 5 December 2024). PMC 6083390. PMID 30104799. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link)
15. ^ Fares, Youssef; Fares, Jawad (2013). "Anatomical and neuropsychological effects of cluster munitions". Neurological Sciences. 34 (12): 2095–2100. doi:10.1007/s10072-013-1343-7. PMID 23456473. S2CID 9810840.
16. Fares, Youssef; Fares, Jawad; Gebeily, Souheil (2014). "Head and facial injuries due to cluster munitions". Neurological Sciences. 35 (6): 905–910. doi:10.1007/s10072-013-1623-2. PMID 24389857. S2CID 24233741.
17. Fares, Youssef; Ayoub, Fouad; Fares, Jawad; Khazim, Rabi; Khazim, Mahmoud; Gebeily, Souheil (2013). "Pain and neurological sequelae of cluster munitions on children and adolescents in South Lebanon". Neurological Sciences. 34 (11): 1971–1976. doi:10.1007/s10072-013-1427-4. PMID 23563862. S2CID 34834498.
18. Fares, Youssef; El-Zaatari, Mohamad; Fares, Jawad; Bedrosian, Nora; Yared, Nadine (2013). "Trauma-related infections due to cluster munitions". Journal of Infection and Public Health. 6 (6): 482–486. doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2013.05.006. PMID 23999350.
19. Fares, Jawad; Gebeily, Souheil; Saad, Mohamad; Harati, Hayat; Nabha, Sanaa; Said, Najwane; Kanso, Mohamad; Abdel Rassoul, Ronza; Fares, Youssef (2017). "Post-traumatic stress disorder in adult victims of cluster munitions in Lebanon: A 10-year longitudinal study". BMJ Open. 7 (8): e017214. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017214. PMC 5724068. PMID 28821528.
20. Gélinas-Phaneuf, Nicholas; Choudhury, Nusrat; Al-Habib, Ahmed R.; Cabral, Anne; Nadeau, Etienne; Mora, Vincent; Pazos, Valerie; Debergue, Patricia; Diraddo, Robert; Del Maestro, Rolando F. (2014). "Assessing performance in brain tumor resection using a novel virtual reality simulator". International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 9 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1007/s11548-013-0905-8. PMID 23784222. S2CID 7703082.
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23. Bajunaid, Khalid; Mullah, Muhammad Abu Shadeque; Winkler-Schwartz, Alexander; Alotaibi, Fahad E.; Fares, Jawad; Baggiani, Marta; Azarnoush, Hamed; Christie, Sommer; Al-Zhrani, Gmaan; Marwa, Ibrahim; Sabbagh, Abdulrahman Jafar; Werthner, Penny; Del Maestro, Rolando F. (2017). "Impact of acute stress on psychomotor bimanual performance during a simulated tumor resection task". Journal of Neurosurgery. 126 (1): 71–80. doi:10.3171/2015.5.JNS15558. PMID 26967787.
24. Azarnoush, Hamed; Alzhrani, Gmaan; Winkler-Schwartz, Alexander; Alotaibi, Fahad; Gelinas-Phaneuf, Nicholas; Pazos, Valérie; Choudhury, Nusrat; Fares, Jawad; Diraddo, Robert; Del Maestro, Rolando F. (2015). "Neurosurgical virtual reality simulation metrics to assess psychomotor skills during brain tumor resection". International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 10 (5): 603–618. doi:10.1007/s11548-014-1091-z. PMID 24965186. S2CID 18837370.
25. Winkler-Schwartz, Alexander; Bajunaid, Khalid; Mullah, Muhammad A.S.; Marwa, Ibrahim; Alotaibi, Fahad E.; Fares, Jawad; Baggiani, Marta; Azarnoush, Hamed; Zharni, Gmaan Al; Christie, Sommer; Sabbagh, Abdulrahman J.; Werthner, Penny; Del Maestro, Rolando F. (2016). "Bimanual Psychomotor Performance in Neurosurgical Resident Applicants Assessed Using Neuro Touch, a Virtual Reality Simulator". Journal of Surgical Education. 73 (6): 942–953. doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2016.04.013. PMID 27395397.
26. Jawad Fares (25 April 2018). "Dr. Jawad Fares - The Distinguished Pioneer Awards - The 67th Anniversary of the Lebanese University". Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via YouTube.
27. "AUB - Public Lectures - 2017 - 2018". website.aub.edu.lb. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.

External links

• Publications by Jawad Fares at ResearchGate
• Jawad Fares publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Profile at Forbes

• 1991 births
• Living people
• Scientists from Madrid
• Lebanese scientists
• American University of Beirut alumni
• Lebanese University alumni
• Northwestern University alumni
• Harvard University alumni
• Academic staff of McGill University
• Cancer researchers
• Lebanese diaspora