Mohamad Abdalkader, MD
Associate Professor, Radiology
Biography
Dr. Mohamad Abdalkader is a board-certified diagnostic and interventional Neuroradiologist at Boston Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.
Dr. Abdalkader received his medical degree from Lebanese University – Faculty of Medical Sciences in Beirut, Lebanon in 2011. He completed a residency in Radiology at the Lebanese University in Beirut and at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium from 2011 to 2016 with dedicated training in interventional and neurointerventioal radiology. He was awarded diplomas in Radiology Specialty and Interventional Radiology from Europe. He also completed an ACGME-accredited diagnostic neuroradiology and interventional neuroradiology fellowships at BMC before joining as an attending physician in 2018.
Dr. Abdalkader serves as a key member of the BMC department of Radiology, section of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology. His experience and multidisciplinary cross training in radiology, interventional radiology, interventional neuroradiology in Lebanon, Europe and USA provide him with unparalleled expertise in patient care in the field of interventional neuroradiology. At BMC, he is responsible for evaluating patients and their imaging and performing neuroendovascular procedures with the highest degree of technical angiographic skills including acute stroke intervention, intracranial aneurysm coiling, intracranial stenting, carotid stenting, endovascular treatment of arteriovenous malformations and arteriovenous fistula, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty, and endovascular treatment of pulsatile tinnitus.
Dr. Abdalkader has over 200 publications and has served as an investigator in several research projects including acute stroke management, cerebral aneurysms, and intracranial vascular malformations, pulsatile tinnitus, traumatic vascular injuries.
Dr. Abdalkader was invited speaker at many national and international radiology, interventional radiology, and interventional neuroradiology meetings. He has been a reviewer and associate editor of several journals.
Dr. Abdalkader is an independent imaging adjudicator for stroke and artificial intelligence studies.
Education
- Lebanese University, MD
Publications
- Published on 1/7/2025
Nasreldein A, Wan Asyraf WZ, Nguyen TN, Martins SO, Lioutas VA, Elbassiouny A, Mai TD, Sacco S, Micdhadhu M, Chen Y, Akinyemi R, Kristoffersen ES, Huo X, Miao Z, Abdalkader M, Nagel S, Puetz V, Thomalla G, Yamagami H, Qiu Z, Demeestere J, Qureshi AI, Michel P, Strbian D, Campbell B, Yan B, Olorukooba A, Masoud HE, Haussen DC, Frankel MR, Mohammaden MH. Global Challenges in the Access of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke (Global MT Access). Int J Stroke. 2025 Jan 07; 17474930251314395. PMID: 39773209.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/4/2025
Anastasiou A, Brehm A, Dobrocky T, Mujanovic A, de Dios Lascuevas M, Carmona Fuentes T, López-Frías López-Jurado A, Hidalgo Valverde B, Berlis A, Maurer CJ, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Thevoz G, Michel P, Kaschner M, Weiss D, Alexandre AM, Pedicelli A, Machi P, Bernava G, Kuwahara S, Uchida K, Wenderoth J, Joshi A, Karwacki G, Lakatos LB, Tessitore A, Vinci SL, Cervo A, Rollo C, Hui F, Mozumder AS, Romano DG, Flora G, Goyal N, Batra V, Inoa V, Cognard C, Hoferica M, Rautio R, Kaiser D, Alph H, Clarke J, Hug N, Koch A, Schulze-Zachau V, Rommers N, Katan M, Psychogios MN. Rescue therapy after failed thrombectomy in medium/distal vessel occlusions: A retrospective analysis of an international, multi-center registry. Eur Stroke J. 2025 Jan 04; 23969873241311152. PMID: 39754521.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/3/2025
Abdalkader M, Klein P, Nguyen TN. Outcomes of venous sinus stenosis stenting in patients with pulsatile tinnitus and sigmoid sinus wall anomalies. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 Jan 03. PMID: 39753348.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/26/2024
Stafford R, Chatzidakis S, Kim ISY, Zhang Y, Rina A, Brush B, Mian A, Abdalkader M, Greer DM, Smirnakis SM, Feske SK, Dupuis J, Ong CJ. Follow-up ASPECTS improves prediction of potentially lethal malignant edema in patients with large middle cerebral artery stroke. J Neurointerv Surg. 2024 Dec 26; 17(e1):e83-e86. PMID: 38160055.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/26/2024
Tao C, Li R, Sun J, Zhu Y, Wang L, Zhang C, Liu T, Song J, Qureshi AI, Abdalkader M, Nguyen TN, Saver JL, Nogueira RG, Hu W. Intra-arterial tenecteplase following endovascular therapy in patients with acute posterior circulation arterial occlusion: study protocol and rationale. J Neurointerv Surg. 2024 Dec 26; 17(e1):e68-e73. PMID: 38124230.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/17/2024
Brakel BA, Rebchuk AD, Ospel J, Chen Y, Heran MK, Goyal M, Hill MD, Miao Z, Huo X, Sacco S, Yaghi S, Mai TD, Thomalla G, Boulouis G, Yamagami H, Hu W, Nagel S, Puetz V, Kristoffersen ES, Demeestere J, Qiu Z, Abdalkader M, Al Kasab S, Siegler JE, Strbian D, Fischer U, Coutinho J, Munckhof A, Aguiar de Sousa D, Campbell BC, Raymond J, Ji X, Saposnik G, Nguyen TN, Field TS. International practice patterns and perspectives on endovascular therapy for the treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis. Int J Stroke. 2024 Dec 17; 17474930241304206. PMID: 39569543.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/29/2024
Nguyen TN, Xiong Y, Li S, Abdalkader M, Chen HS. Current gaps in acute reperfusion therapies. Curr Opin Neurol. 2024 Nov 29. PMID: 39607026.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/28/2024
Salim HA, Pulli B, Yedavalli V, Milhem F, Musmar B, Adeeb N, Lakhani DA, Essibayi MA, Heit JJ, Faizy TD, El Naamani K, Henninger N, Sundararajan SH, Kuhn AL, Khalife J, Ghozy S, Scarcia L, Yeo LL, Tan BY, Regenhardt RW, Cancelliere NM, Rouchaud A, Fiehler J, Sheth SA, Puri AS, Dyzmann C, Colasurdo M, Renieri L, Filipe JP, Harker P, Radu RA, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Marotta TR, Spears J, Ota T, Mowla A, Jabbour P, Biswas A, Clarençon F, Siegler JE, Nguyen TN, Varela R, Baker A, Altschul D, Gonzalez N, Möhlenbruch MA, Costalat V, Gory B, Stracke P, Hecker C, Marnat G, Shaikh H, Griessenauer CJ, Liebeskind DS, Pedicelli A, Alexandre AM, Tancredi I, Kalsoum E, Lubicz B, Patel AB, Mendes Pereira V, Wintermark M, Guenego A, Dmytriw AA. Endovascular therapy versus medical management in isolated anterior cerebral artery acute ischemic stroke: a multinational multicenter propensity score-weighted study. J Neurointerv Surg. 2024 Nov 28. PMID: 39613322.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/26/2024
Veerapaneni D, Sakthiyendran NA, Kim SY, Nguyen C, Daneshmand A, Abdalkader M, Mohammed S, Dupuis J, Sheth KN, Gilmore EJ, Greer D, Ong CJ. Pupil Abnormality Frequency in the First 72 Hours Improves IMPACT score in Traumatic Brain Injury. medRxiv. 2024 Nov 26. PMID: 39649617.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/22/2024
Al Kasab S, Almallouhi E, Jumaa MA, Inoa V, Capasso F, Nahhas MI, Starke RM, Fragata IR, Bender MT, Moldovan K, Yaghi S, Maier IL, Grossberg JA, Jabbour PM, Psychogios MN, Samaniego EA, Burkhardt JK, Jankowitz BT, Abdalkader M, Hassan AE, Altschul DJ, Mascitelli J, Regenhardt RW, Wolfe SQ, Ezzeldin M, Limaye K, Grandhi R, Al-Jehani H, Niazi M, Goyal N, Tjoumakaris SI, Alawieh AM, Abdelsalam A, Guada L, Ntoulias N, El-Ghawanmeh R, Batra V, Choi A, Zohdy YM, Nguyen S, Essibayi MA, El Naamani K, Koo AB, Almekhlafi MA, Raz E, Miller S, Mierzwa A, Zaidi SF, Gudino AS, Alsarah A, Azeem H, Mattingly TK, Schartz D, Nelson AM, Pinheiro C, Spiotta AM, Kicielinski KP, Lena J, Lajthia O, Hubbard Z, Zaidat OO, Derdeyn CP, Klein P, Nguyen TN, de Havenon A. Outcomes of Adjunct Emergent Stenting Versus Mechanical Thrombectomy Alone: The RESCUE-ICAS Registry. Stroke. 2024 Nov 22. PMID: 39576761.
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