A Hero in the Strife

Fuad Sami Haddad was born in 1924 in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1950 he was recruited as a resident in neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute under Wilder Penfield. Five years later he returned home to the American University of Beirut, where for many years he was the only neurosurgeon certified by the American Board of Neurosurgery. He was an excellent polyglot, speaking Arabic, French, and English fluently, with German more mundane. His hard work, excellent organizational skills, exceptional surgical credentials, and contagious cheerfulness soon made him the necessary link between different scientific societies all over the area, from Iran to Morocco, from Egypt to France.
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Source Type: research