The neurologist Dr. Souhel Najjar accepted the Alexandrion Foundation’s invitation to come to Romania to share his professional experience of more than 40 years with students and fellow doctors at the MEDICS conference. Dr. Souhel Najjar will also give two specialist talks at meetings with students of the two medical universities in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.
The Alexandrion Foundation honoured the renowned doctor’s entire career by presenting him with the Constantin Brâncoveanu International Award in the Medicine category, at the inaugural edition held in New York in November 2018.
Internationally recognised for his clinical and teaching experience and for his research work, Dr. Souhel Najjar has dedicated his career to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in patients of all ages, of complex neurological disorders and of autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system.
One of the cases solved by Dr. Najjar over his career became the subject of a book and a film (Netflix). It is the case of the journalist and writer Susannah Cahalan, known for the book Brain on Fire, in which she recounted her experience of hospitalisation after contracting a rare autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA encephalitis, and of the doctor who treated her and helped her recover, Dr. Souhel Najjar.
