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Mohamed Abdelbaki
mohameda@wustl.edu
Director, Neuro Oncology Program
Director, Neuro-Oncology Fellowship
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Hematology and Oncology
phone: (314) 454-6018
Education
MD,
Cairo University
,
2001
Training
Intership, Cairo University Hospitals
,
2001
-
2002
General Practitioner, El-Agouza Hospital
,
2002
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2003
Residency, Children’s Hospital, Cairo University
,
2003
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2006
Residency, Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center
,
2006
-
2009
Fellowship, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
,
2009
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2012
Fellowship, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
,
2012
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2013
Licensure and Board Certification
2011
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2014
PA, State Medical Board of Pennsylvania
2012
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Pres
American Board of Pediatrics – General Pediatrics
2013
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2016
MO, State Medical Board of Missouri
2015
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Pres
American Board of Pediatrics- Hematology Oncology
2015
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Pres
OH, State Medical Board of Ohio
2020
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Pres
MO, State Medical Board of Missouri
Honors and Awards
Ambassador Choice Award - Nominated
,
2014
Ambassador Choice Award
,
2015
Distinguished Teaching Award
,
2015
Partners in Care, Partners in Hope Family Centered Care Award
,
2016
Pediatric Clinical Research Abstract Award
,
2019
Recent Publications
view all (30)
Publication Co-Authors
Margaret Shatara
Harris MK, Graham RT, Cappellano AM, Margol AS, Michaiel G, Crawford JR, Ioakeim-Ioannidou M, Stanek JR, Liu KX, MacDonald SM, Abdelbaki MS.
Multi-institutional analysis of central nervous system germ cell tumors in patients with Down syndrome
Pediatric Blood and Cancer
.
2022.
PMID:
35686831
Desai AV, Robinson GW, Gauvain K, Basu EM, Macy ME, Maese L, Whipple NS, Sabnis AJ, Foster JH, Shusterman S, Yoon J, Weiss BD, Abdelbaki MS, Armstrong AE, Cash T, Pratilas CA, Corradini N, Marshall LV, Farid-Kapadia M, Chohan S, Devlin C, Meneses-Lorente G, Cardenas A, Hutchinson KE, Bergthold G, Caron H, Chow Maneval E, Gajjar A, Fox E.
Entrectinib in children and young adults with solid or primary CNS tumors harboring NTRK, ROS1 or ALK aberrations (STARTRK-NG).
Neuro-Oncology
.
2022.
PMID:
35395680
Shatara M, Schieffer KM, Klawinski D, Thomas DL, Pierson CR, Sribnick EA, Jones J, Rodriguez DP, Deeg C, Hamelberg E, Leraas K, LeHaye S, Fitch J, Kelly B, Pfau R, White P, Margini V,Wilson RK, Mardis ER,
Abdelbaki MS
, Finlay JL, Boué DR, Cottrell CE, Ghasemi DR, Pajtler KW and Osorio D.
Clinically aggressive pediatric spinal ependymoma with novel MYC amplification demonstrates molecular and histopathologic similarity to newly described MYCN-amplified spinal ependymomas
Acta neuropathologica communications
.
2021.
PMID:
34895332
LeHaye S, Fitch JR, Voytovich KJ, Herman AC, Kelly BJ, Lammi GE, Wijeratne S, Franklin SJ, Schieffer KM, Bir N, McGrath SD, Miller AR, Wetzel A, Miller KE, Bedrosian TA, Leraas K, Gupta A, Setty B, Boue DR, Leonard JR, Finlay JL,
Abdelbaki MS
, Osorio D, Koo SC, Koboldt DC, Magrini V, Cottrell CE, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, White P.
Discovery of clinically relevant fusions in pediatric cancer
BMC Genomics
.
2021.
PMID:
34863095
Richard T Graham, Mohammad H Abu-Arja, Joseph R Stanek, Andrea Cappellano, Christina Coleman, Susan Chi, Tabitha Cooney, Girish Dhall, Jacob G Ellen, Jonathan L Finlay, Michael J Fisher, Gregory K Friedman, Amar Gajjar, Karen Gauvain, Lindsey M Hoffman, Juliette Hukin, John T Lucas Jr, Sabine Mueller, Pournima Navalkele, Rebecca Ronsley, Christopher Tinkle, Stephanie Villeneuve, Kee Kiat Yeo, Jack M Su, Ashley Margol, Nicholas G Gottardo, Jeffrey Allen, Roger Packer, Ute Bartels,
Abdelbaki MS
.
Multi-institutional analysis of treatment modalities in basal ganglia and thalamic germinoma
Pediatric Blood and Cancer
.
2021.
PMID:
34125480
Harris MK, Shatara M, Funk Z, Stanek J, Boue DR, Jones J, Finlay JL,
Abdelbaki MS
.
Recurrent Wnt medulloblastoma treated with marrow-ablative chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell rescue: a dual case report and review of the literature
Child’s Nervous System
.
2021.
PMID:
33948723
Underiner RM, Eltobgy M, Stanek JR, Finlay JL, AbdelBaki MS.
Meta-Analysis of Treatment Modalities in Metastatic Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors in Children.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2020;108:106-112.
PMID:
32402552
Abdelbaki MS, Abu-Arja MH, Davidson TB, Fangusaro JR, Stanek JR, Dunkel IJ, Dhall G, Gardner SL, Finlay JL.
Pineoblastoma in children less than six years of age: The Head Start I, II, and III experience.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
.
2020;67
(6):
e28252.
PMID:
32187454
Michaiel G, Strother D, Gottardo N, Bartels U, Coltin H, Hukin J, Wilson B, Zelcer S, Hansford JR, Hassall T, AbdelBaki MS, Cole KA, Hoffman L, Smiley NP, Smith A, Vinitsky A, Vitanza NA, Wright A, Yeo KK, Chow LML, Vanan MI, Dhall G, Bouffet E, Lafay-Cousin L.
Intracranial growing teratoma syndrome (iGTS): an international case series and review of the literature.
J Neurooncol
.
2020;147
(3):
721-730.
PMID:
32297094
Richardson TE, Tang K, Vasudevaraja V, Serrano J, William CM, Mirchia K, Pierson CR, Leonard JR, AbdelBaki MS, Schieffer KM, Cottrell CE, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Comito MA, Boué DR, Jour G, Snuderl M.
GOPC-ROS1 Fusion Due to Microdeletion at 6q22 Is an Oncogenic Driver in a Subset of Pediatric Gliomas and Glioneuronal Tumors.
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol
.
2019;78
(12):
1089-1099.
PMID:
31626289
Mehyar LS, Abu-Arja MH, Stanek JR, Elbeshlawi I, AbdelBaki MS.
The Risk of Developing Secondary Central Nervous System Tumors After Diagnostic Irradiation From Computed Tomography in Pediatrics: A Literature Review.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2019;98:18-24.
PMID:
31235364
Schieffer KM, Varga E, Miller KE, Agarwal V, Koboldt DC, Brennan P, Kelly B, Dave-Wala A, Pierson CR, Finlay JL, AbdelBaki MS, White P, Magrini V, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE.
Expanding the clinical history associated with syndromic Klippel-Feil: A unique case of comorbidity with medulloblastoma.
Eur J Med Genet
.
2019;62
(8):
103701.
PMCID:
PMC7285001
PMID:
31195167
Abu Arja MH, Bouffet E, Finlay JL, AbdelBaki MS.
Critical review of the management of primary central nervous nongerminomatous germ cell tumors.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
.
2019;66
(6):
e27658.
PMID:
30767415
Saraf AJ, Elhawary G, Finlay JL, Scott S, Olshefski R, Halverson M, Boue DR, AbdelBaki MS.
Complete Remission of an Extracranially Disseminated Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma With Everolimus: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2018;88:65-70.
PMID:
30322731
Abu Arja MH, Stanek JR, Finlay JL, AbdelBaki MS.
Re-induction chemotherapy regimens in patients with recurrent central nervous system mixed malignant germ cell tumors.
Childs Nerv Syst
.
2018;34
(11):
2179-2186.
PMID:
30076436
Elbeshlawi I, AbdelBaki MS.
Safety of Gadolinium Administration in Children.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2018;86:27-32.
PMID:
30390954
AbdelBaki MS, Boué DR, Finlay JL, Kieran MW.
Desmoplastic nodular medulloblastoma in young children: a management dilemma.
Neuro Oncol
.
2018;20
(8):
1026-1033.
PMCID:
PMC6280315
PMID:
29156007
Abu Arja MH, Patel P, Shah SH, Auletta JJ, Meyer EK, Conley SE, Aldrink JH, Pindrik JA, AbdelBaki MS.
Synchronous Central Nervous System Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor and Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor of the Kidney: Case Report of a Long-Term Survivor and Review of the Literature.
World Neurosurg
.
2018;111:6-15.
PMID:
29223518
Morris C, Prudowsky ZD, Shetty V, Geller T, Elbabaa SK, Guzman M, AbdelBaki MS.
Rosette-Forming Glioneuronal Tumor of the Fourth Ventricle in Children: Case Report and Literature Review.
World Neurosurg
.
2017;107:1045.e9-1045.e16.
PMID:
28826709
AbdelBaki MS, Waguespack SG, Salceda V, Jones J, Stapleton SL, Baskin DS, Okcu MF.
Significant response of pituitary carcinoma to carboplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil chemotherapy: a pediatric case report and review of the literature.
J Neurooncol
.
2017;135
(1):
213-215.
PMID:
28667593
Yvon ES, Burga R, Powell A, Cruz CR, Fernandes R, Barese C, Nguyen T, Abdel-Baki MS, Bollard CM.
Cord blood natural killer cells expressing a dominant negative TGF-β receptor: Implications for adoptive immunotherapy for glioblastoma.
Cytotherapy
.
2017;19
(3):
408-418.
PMID:
28109751
Hanzlik E, Woodrome SE, Abdel-Baki M, Geller TJ, Elbabaa SK.
A systematic review of neuropsychological outcomes following posterior fossa tumor surgery in children.
Childs Nerv Syst
.
2015;31
(10):
1869-75.
PMID:
26351236
Bieser S, Reis M, Guzman M, Gauvain K, Elbabaa S, Braddock SR, Abdel-Baki MS.
Grade II pilocytic astrocytoma in a 3-month-old patient with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (ECCL): case report and literature review of low grade gliomas in ECCL.
Am. J. Med. Genet. A
.
2015;167A
(4):
878-81.
PMID:
25705862
Birinyi PV, Bieser S, Reis M, Guzman MA, Agarwal A, Abdel-Baki MS, Elbabaa SK.
Impact of DTI tractography on surgical planning for resection of a pediatric pre-pontine neurenteric cyst: a case discussion and literature review.
Childs Nerv Syst
.
2015;31
(3):
457-63.
PMID:
25407831
Abdel-Baki MS, Hanzlik E, Kieran MW.
Multidisciplinary pediatric brain tumor clinics: the key to successful treatment?
CNS Oncol
.
2015;4
(3):
147-55.
PMCID:
PMC6088326
PMID:
25923018
Salama SA, Mohammad MA, Diaz-Arrastia CR, Kamel MW, Kilic GS, Ndofor BT, Abdel-Baki MS, Theiler SK.
Estradiol-17β upregulates pyruvate kinase M2 expression to coactivate estrogen receptor-α and to integrate metabolic reprogramming with the mitogenic response in endometrial cells.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab
.
2014;99
(10):
3790-9.
PMID:
24471565
Beshlawi I, Al Lamki Z, Rawas A, Abdel-Baki MS, Wali Y.
Lumbar puncture in haemophilia A: controversy in the management.
Haemophilia
.
2014;20
(2):
e175-7.
PMID:
24372668
Mills HL, Abdel-Baki MS, Teruya J, Dietrich JE, Shah MD, Mahoney D Jr, Yee DL, Srivaths LV.
Platelet function defects in adolescents with heavy menstrual bleeding.
Haemophilia
.
2014;20
(2):
249-54.
PMID:
24251971
Rabah F, El-Banna N, Abdel-Baki M, Beshlavi I, Macaraig D, Bhuyan D, Al-Hinai M, Al-Mashaikhi N, Wasifuddin SM, Tomas E, Pathare A.
Postvaricella thrombosis-report of two cases and literature review.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
.
2012;31
(9):
985-7.
PMID:
22895217
Abu-Arja MH, Osorio DS, Lassaletta A, Graham R, Coven SL, Stanek JR, Bouffet E, Finlay JL, and
Abdelbaki MS
.
Prognostic factors for patients with relapsed central nervous system nongerminomatous germ cell tumors
Pediatric Blood and Cancer
.
PMID:
34558189
Last updated: 07/31/2022
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