Azedine Medhkour

Professor, Neurosurgeon, Wheeling Hospital

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Neurosurgery

Classification:

Clinical Faculty

Publications 2018-2020

• Mugge L, Mansour TR, Krafcik B, Mazur T, Floyd-Bradstock T, Medhkour A. “Immunological, vascular, metabolic, and autonomic changes seen with aging possible implications for poor outcomes in the elderly following decompressive hemicraniectomy for malignant MCA stroke: a critical review.” Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences. 2018 Mar.
• Mugge L, Caras A, Miller W, Buehler M, Medhkour A. “A Successful Outcome Despite Delayed Intervention for Cauda Equina Syndrome in a Young Patient with a Posterior Epidural Disc Extrusion.” Cureus. 2019 May;11(5).
• Mugge L, Mansour T, Dhillon R, Medhkour A. “Success with proper application of Anterior and Posterior approaches for the surgical intervention of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy” Submitted for peer-review, Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, August 2018.

Medical Specialties

• Neurosurgery
• Surgical Oncology (Cancer)

Board Certifications

• Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery

Special Training

• Residency, Neurosurgery Resident
  University of Arkansas, 2000
• Fellowship, Clinical Fellow, Spine
  Pennsylvania Hospital/Thomas Jefferson University, 1996
• Residency, Neurosurgery Resident
  University of Ottawa, 1994
• Fellowship, Clinical Fellow Neuro-Oncology
  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1993

Dr. Medhkour will join the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, bringing more than 40 years of medical experience with him.
A graduate of the Institute of Medical Sciences of Algiers, his neurosurgery training began in Paris at La Pitie-Salpetriere and Sainte-Anne hospital. He continued his neurosurgical training 
at New York University Medical Center and research training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 
Dr. Medhkour spent two years performing basic science research on brain tumors at Massachusetts General, followed by a year of clinical research at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. 
After practicing neurosurgery for three years in Algeria, Dr. Medhkour returned to the U.S. and completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.  
He joins WVU after having served most recently as chief of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio. 
Dr. Medhkour provides surgical treatments for a range of conditions affecting the nervous system, such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. His sub-specialty surgeries include: brain aneurysm and arterio-venous malformation; brain tumors; cervical and lumbar disc surgeries; traumatic brain management; normal pressure hydrocephalus; hydrocephalus chiari malformation; and spinal cord tumors.