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    Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS, FAANS

    Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery
    University of Texas Health Houston

    Jacques J. Morcos, MD, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed), FAANS, FCNS is Professor and Chairman of the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. He holds the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Chair, is Co-Director of UTHealth Houston Neurosciences and Director of the Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery Program and Fellowship. He had spent the first 28 years of his academic career at the University of Miami.

    He obtained his MD from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon in 1985, and then spent four years in England, including Registrar at the National Hospital for Neurological Diseases/Queen Square/Maida Vale in London. There he won the Henry Arthur Dalziel Ferns Prize from the RCS (Edinburgh), "for the most outstanding candidate in the worldwide Primary FRCS examinations for 1987/1988 among more than 1,400 candidates”.

    He was then recruited by Dr Roberto Heros for Residency at the University of Minnesota (1990 -1994). There, he won the Peyton Society Award, “for ranking 1st in the USA on the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS) written exam, 1993”. He then completed a Fellowship at the University of Florida under Dr. Arthur Day in Cerebrovascular Surgery, and then a Fellowship at the BNI 1994/1995 in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery under Dr. Robert Spetzler. He joined the University of Miami in 1995 until his move to UTHealth Houston in 2023.

    His range of clinical and research expertise relates to all skull base/complex brain tumors, endoscopic skull base surgery, microvascular decompression and all aspects of cerebrovascular surgery including bypass surgery for complex aneurysms, Moyamoya and ischemic disease, AVMs, cavernomas and carotid endarterectomy. He also performs radiosurgery. He acts/acted as PI of the MISTA Consortium for AVMs, sub-PI on the INTUITT-NF2 study and local co-PI of the CREST-2 Trial.

    Dr. Morcos has served organized neurosurgery nationally and internationally. He is currently AANS Past-President (2025-26), President of the World Federation of Skull Base Societies (WFSBS) (2025-29) and President of the International Meningioma Society (IMS) (2025-27). He is Past President of the NASBS (2017), the SUN (2015) and the WALN (2014-16). He is Past Chair of the Joint AANS/CNS CV Section. He is a member of multiple societies including the CNS, the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (AAcNS), the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS), the World Academy of Neurological Surgeons (WANS) and the Yaśargil Microneurosurgery Academy (YMA). He is a delegate to the WFNS.

    Dr. Morcos serves on several journal Editorial Boards. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the SUN, was inducted in the AOA Honor Medical Society, selected by US World and News Report as top 1% of US physicians, and has received numerous other awards from America’s Top Doctors, Marquis’ Who’s Who, Patients Choice and others.

    Dr. Morcos is passionate about microneurosurgery and education, nationally and globally. He has lectured and taught the world over, with more than 1000 invited presentations and 100 Visiting Professorships. He has authored 230 peer reviewed/chapters/other publications. He has trained 25 Cerebrovascular/Skull Base Fellows to date.

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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