I am pleased to announce that Tareq Kass-Hout, MD has joined the Department of Neurology at University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Neurology and the Department’s Inpatient Medical Director and Director of the Neuro-endovascular Service. He is a unique addition to our department as our first endovascular trained neurologist which is of major importance to our comprehensive stroke center and the hospital and a significant novel benefit for our trainees.
Dr. Kass-Hout received his medical doctorate at Damascus University School of medicine in 2006 after which he completed his neurology residency training at the Jacob Neurological Institute at the University at Buffalo. Following completion of his residency, he completed a vascular neurology fellowship at Emory University, a Neuro-Critical care fellowship at the University of Miami, and an Endovascular Neurosurgery fellowship at Rutgers University. Following training and working on the east coast, Dr. Kass-Hout joined Rush University Medical Center where he served as an assistant professor of neurology, neurosurgery and radiology.
He is a board certified Neurologist, Vascular Neurologist, and Neurointerventionalist specializing in minimally invasive treatments of vascular disease of the brain and spinal cord. Dr. Kass-Hout has many publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. His research interests include ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, cerebral aneurysm treatment, and advanced neuroimaging. Kass-Hout's clinical practice will focus on cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and fistulas of the brain and spine, intracranial atherosclerosis, carotid artery disease, acute stroke thrombectomy, pseudotumor cerebri, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and preoperative tumor embolization of the brain and spine.
Please join me in welcoming him to our UCM family.