Chief, Neurovascular Surgery
Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical center. Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, US
Dr. Adel Malek is Chief of Neurovascular Surgery and Director of the Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Division in the department of Neurosurgery at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Malek is co-founder of CereVasc Inc. and co-inventor of the percutaneous eShunt endovascular device for treatment of communicating hydrocephalus and central nervous system therapeutics. He is a board-certified neurosurgeon in Boston specializing in the treatment of brain aneurysms and AVMs. Dr. Malek has dual training in microsurgical neurosurgery and in minimally invasive endovascular neuro-interventional treatment. He completed his residencey at Brigham and Women's Hospital and his Neurointerventional Neuroradiology fellowship at University of California San Francisco. Dr. Malek is active in translational research through the Laboratory of Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics which he heads. His research interests include the mechanism of development of brain aneurysms and the hemodynamic factors leading to aneurysm rupture. He is actively involved in clinical research to improve the safety of neuro-endovascular treatments by using post-procedural magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging.
Disclosure(s): CereVasc Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing), Stock Shareholder (excluding mutual funds) (Ongoing)
Friday, May 3, 2024
2:00 PM – 2:04 PM CT
Preliminary Results from the eShunt® System Pilot Study in idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4:13 PM – 4:17 PM CT