Omar M. Qahwash, D.O.
OFFICE LOCATION Pontiac-Lexus RELATED ITEMS See All Doctors PARTICIPATING INSURANCES Auto Beaumont Employee HP Blue Cross (trad) BCBS PPO/ Community Blue Blue Preferred Plus (Ford, GM, Daimler Chrysler) Blue Care Network Advantage Blue Care Network Coventry/First Health DMC Care HAP HMO HAP POS HAP Preferred EPA/PPO HAP Senior Plus HAP Medicare Advantage PPO McLaren HMO Commercial McLaren PPO Multi-plan NPPN Priority Health PPO Priority Health Medicare HMO Priority Health HMO FACILITY AFFILIATIONS Providence Hospital St. Joseph Mercy-Oakland		Neurosurgeon, MHSI Michigan Head & Spine Institute, PC Dr. Qahwash specializes in brain and spine disorders. He has a special interest in cerebrovascular disease and is currently completing a fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery under Dr. Richard D. Fessler. Research experiences include surgical decompression in degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, multicentric gliomas, and the decompressive hemicraniectomy. He has presented on recurrent herniation following minimal access discectomy at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and staged coiling of unruptured intracranial aneurysms at the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. Specialties Minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of degenerative and traumatic spinal disease including kyphoplasty and spinal cord stimulation Brain and spinal tumors Carpel Tunnel and ulnar nerve decompression Percutaneous and open treatment of trigeminal neuralgia Surgical intervention for epilepsy Education Residency: Neurosurgery, Philadelphia Osteopathic College, 2008 Internship: Sparrow Health System, affiliated of Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 2003 DO: Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, MI, 2002 BS: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Physiology with honors, 1996 Membership American Osteopathic Association American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Jordanian Society of Neurological Surgeons Personal Fluent in Arabic

Omar M. Qahwash, D.O.

OFFICE LOCATION

Pontiac-Lexus

RELATED ITEMS

PARTICIPATING INSURANCES
Auto
Beaumont Employee HP
Blue Cross (trad)
BCBS PPO/
Community Blue
Blue Preferred Plus (Ford, GM, Daimler Chrysler)
Blue Care Network Advantage
Blue Care Network
Coventry/First Health
DMC Care
HAP HMO
HAP POS
HAP Preferred EPA/PPO
HAP Senior Plus
HAP Medicare Advantage PPO
McLaren HMO Commercial
McLaren PPO
Multi-plan
NPPN
Priority Health PPO
Priority Health Medicare HMO
Priority Health HMO

FACILITY AFFILIATIONS
Providence Hospital
St. Joseph Mercy-Oakland

Neurosurgeon, MHSI Michigan Head & Spine Institute, PC

Dr. Qahwash specializes in brain and spine disorders. He has a special interest in cerebrovascular disease and is currently completing a fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery under Dr. Richard D. Fessler.

Research experiences include surgical decompression in degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, multicentric gliomas, and the decompressive hemicraniectomy. He has presented on recurrent herniation following minimal access discectomy at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and staged coiling of unruptured intracranial aneurysms at the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons.

Specialties
Minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of degenerative and traumatic spinal disease including kyphoplasty and spinal cord stimulation
Brain and spinal tumors
Carpel Tunnel and ulnar nerve decompression
Percutaneous and open treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
Surgical intervention for epilepsy

Education
Residency: Neurosurgery, Philadelphia Osteopathic College, 2008
Internship: Sparrow Health System, affiliated of Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 2003
DO: Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing, MI, 2002
BS: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Physiology with honors, 1996

Membership
American Osteopathic Association
American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
Jordanian Society of Neurological Surgeons

Personal
Fluent in Arabic