
Issam Awad
Safadi Program Director · Pritzker School of Medicine
Credentials: · · · · · ·
History
- Present
Safadi · Pritzker School of Medicine
- Present
Section of Neurovascular Surgery · Pritzker School of Medicine
- Present

1981–1988
1980–1981
Research
The Lancet · 2019 · 754 citations
Natural history of the cavernous angioma
Journal of neurosurgery · 1991 · 730 citations
Stroke · 2014 · 722 citations

75 papers

53 papers

42 papers · 29 as a resident

26 papers

22 papers · 19 as a resident

22 papers · 5 as a resident

19 papers

19 papers · 9 as a resident
Grants
- 2020–2026
Biomarkers of Cerebral Cavernous Angioma with Symptomatic Hemorrhage (CASH)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · R01
Contact PI · $3.4M · University of Chicago
- 2018–2025
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · R01
Contact PI · $3.9M · University of Chicago
- 2015–2025
Signaling Aberrations and Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Pathogenesis
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · P01
Project lead · $3.1M · Duke University
- 2017–2023
Trial Readiness in Cavernous Angiomas with Symptomatic Hemorrhage
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · U01
Contact PI · $3.8M · University of Chicago
Clinical trials
- 2020–2026
- 2018–2022
CASH (Cavernous Angiomas With Symptomatic Hemorrhage) Trial Readiness
Principal investigator · Completed
University of Chicago
- 2013–2018
Minimally Invasive Surgery Plus Rt-PA for ICH Evacuation Phase III
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 3
Johns Hopkins University
- 2010–2025
Modifiers of Disease Severity in Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
Principal investigator · Completed
University of California, San Francisco



