Department of Pediatrics

Education

• MD, Cairo University, 2001

Training

• Intership, Cairo University Hospitals, 2001 - 2002
• General Practitioner, El-Agouza Hospital, 2002 - 2003
• Residency, Children’s Hospital, Cairo University, 2003 - 2006
• Residency, Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center, 2006 - 2009
• Fellowship, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 2009 - 2012
• Fellowship, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012 - 2013

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2011 - 2014PA, State Medical Board of Pennsylvania
• 2012 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics – General Pediatrics
• 2013 - 2016MO, State Medical Board of Missouri
• 2015 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics- Hematology Oncology
• 2015 - PresOH, State Medical Board of Ohio
• 2020 - PresMO, 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 (26)

Publication Co-Authors

Karen Gauvain, M.D.

Margaret Shatara

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Mohamed Abdelbaki

1. 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 
2. 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 
3. 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 
4. 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 
5. 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 
6. 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 
7. 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 
8. 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 
9. 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 
10. 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 
11. 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 
12. Elbeshlawi I, AbdelBaki MS. Safety of Gadolinium Administration in Children. Pediatr Neurol. 2018;86:27-32. PMID:30390954 
13. 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 
14. 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 
15. 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 
16. 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 
17. 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 
18. 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 
19. 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 
20. 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 
21. 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 
22. 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 
23. 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 
24. 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 
25. 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 
26. 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 Non-germinomatous Germ Cell Tumors Pediatric Blood and Cancer.