Ahmed Ammar
Dammam University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Graduated from the Medical School in 1977. Started Trained and qualified as neurosurgeon from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan. Fellowship , Pittsburgh University Pittsburgh , USA. Joined Neurosurgery of Neurosurgery, KFU (Dammam University) since 1987, Professor of neurosurgery since 1994. Visiting professor, departments of Neurosurgery, Virginia University, Charlottesville, USA and Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan. Parallel career , member of The committee of ethics, World Federation for Neurosurgical societies for 8 years, from 1992 to 2000, and shared in writing the “Good Practice: A Guide for Neurosurgeons. Acta Neurochir (Wien), 1999;141: 791-799”. Co- Chairman of the Ethics Committee, world Association of Disasters and emergency medicine. Wrote with Dr. Mark Bernstein a new book “Neurosurgical ethics in practice- value based medicine “which published by springer in August 2014. Presented more than 50 lectures and workshops about medical ethics and introduced the concept “ Value Based Medicine since 2010”. He published nearly 100 scientific papers and wrote 6 chapters in different books and presented over 500 talks in Scientific meetings in 57 countries and one book. Obtained 5 patents and filed other 2 patents. Designed 5 neurosurgical instruments. He described and named special neurological and neurosurgical condition in children which was published in Journal of Neurosurgery
Abstract
Abstract : Value Based Medicine- Ethical issues in the daily practice