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Dr. Sleiman Haddad

Spine surgery

Dr. Sleiman HaddadGraduated in Biology in 2005 and later in Medicine from the American University of Beirut in 2009, where he received the Penrose recognition, extraordinary award of the undergraduate degree. He completed his MIR residency programme in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Autonomous University of Barcelona), obtaining his specialisation in 2015.

He subsequently completed a two-year fellowship in spine surgery at the Queen’s Medical Centre -Nottingham University Hospital; recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons, who awarded him honorary membership as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

In 2018 he received his PhD in Surgery and Morphological Sciences with the qualification of excellence with international mention from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His doctoral thesis “Surgical Site Infections in Spinal Surgery: From Risk Factors to Outcomes” , , addresses a review of the risk factors of SSI (surgical wound infection) in spinal surgery, as well as its impact on the final outcome. Dr. Haddad’s thesis won the award for the best doctoral thesis at the 1st Quirónsalud Group Research and Innovation Conference in 2019 as well as other prizes awarded by the British Society for Spine Surgery (BASS), the Spanish Society for Spine Surgery (GEER) and the European Society for Spine Surgery (EuroSpine). He is an active member of the above societies as well as the AOSpine and the Scoliosis Research Society.

He currently works in the Spine Unit of the Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona (Barcelona Spine Institute – BSI), and is a consultant spine surgeon at the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón, where he also carries out research activity in the Vall d’Hebrón Research Institute (VHIR).

Areas of expertise

Scoliosis, kyphosis and spinal deformities (adult and paediatric), disc herniation, brachialgia, sciatica, canal stenosis, degenerative pathology of the spine, spondylolisthesis, vertebral fractures, infections, pathologies causing back pain.

Languages

Spanish, Catalan, Arabic, English, French, Spanish.

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