Omar M. Hussain, MD

The road so far

1. Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

   Work · 2026 to 2027

   The next step after residency: a year devoted to children's neurosurgery.

2. 

   Resident, Neurological Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals

   Work · 2019 to 2026

   Seven years of training across cranial, spine, pediatric and trauma neurosurgery at Froedtert Hospital and Children's Wisconsin, with operative videos and case reports published along the way.

3. On call the night of the Waukesha Christmas parade

   Patient care · November 2021

   As a junior resident he was called in for a mass casualty event with nearly twenty children brought to Children's Wisconsin. The neurosurgery team triaged arrivals and performed four emergency operations that night and one the next morning. He has since told the story at a national neurosurgery meeting and on stage in Boston, and says it changed how he communicates with families: "Being in the dark is one of the worst feelings in the world."

4. Fourteen peer-reviewed publications in neurosurgery

   Research · 2020 to 2026

   Operative videos, case reports and reviews across spine, skull base, pediatric and trauma neurosurgery, several as first author, with co-authors across the Medical College of Wisconsin.

5. 

   Class representative and student body vice president, UA College of Medicine, Phoenix

   Leadership · 2015 to 2019

   Student government through medical school, with a focus on class morale.

6. Gold Humanism Honor Society

   Recognition · 2018

   Inducted as a medical student, for humanism in the care of patients.

In their own words

Publications

13 peer-reviewed papers, each linked to PubMed.

1. Stairstep pericranial incisions are associated with reduced wound complications in supratentorial craniotomies

   Operative Neurosurgery · 2026 · Co-author

2. Systematic review and case report of multimodal therapy for treatment of advanced thoracic spine paraganglioma

   World Neurosurgery · 2025 · Co-author

3. Giant pediatric brainstem cavernoma: illustrative case

   Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons · 2025 · Co-author

4. The Bezold-Jarisch reflex following an endoscopic endonasal resection of an intraosseous clival myxoma: a case report

   Case Reports in Anesthesiology · 2025 · Co-author

5. Far lateral supracondylar approach for symptomatic juxta-articular cyst: 2-dimensional operative video

   Operative Neurosurgery · 2024 · Co-author

6. Non-hemorrhagic cerebellar contrast enhancement on intraoperative MRI during a supratentorial glioma resection

   Radiology Case Reports · 2024 · Co-author

7. Large cervical spinal schwannoma requiring anterior and posterior decompression and fusion

   World Neurosurgery · 2024 · First author

8. Treatment of a pial arterial venous fistula in a newborn: 2-dimensional operative video

   Operative Neurosurgery · 2024 · Co-author

9. Use of 'rail technique' to correct thoracic kyphosis: 2-dimensional operative video

   Operative Neurosurgery · 2024 · Co-author

10. The role of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in spinal cord injury

    Life (Basel) · 2023 · First author

11. Glymphatics for the neurosurgeon

    Neurosurgery Practice · 2023 · Co-author

12. Temporary standalone percutaneous fixation with pedicle screws for the treatment of subacute tuberculous osteomyelitis

    Surgical Neurology International · 2022 · Co-author

13. Management of extracranial blunt cerebrovascular injuries: experience with an aspirin-based approach

    World Neurosurgery · 2020 · Co-author

Education

1. 

   University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix

   MD, Medicine, with a certificate of distinction in rural health · 2015 to 2019

   Gold Humanism Honor Society, inducted 2018

2. 

   University of Arizona, Honors College

   BS, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science · 2012 to 2015

   Summa cum laude, with honors

3. Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona

Talks and press

• Sense of Community: MCW neurosurgery resident reflects on the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedyMCWknowledge · 2023
• The Burden of Epilepsy in Children with MyelomeningoceleAANS Annual Scientific Meeting · 2025Presented April 27, 2025.
• Match Day student profile: Omar Mohammad HussainUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix · 2019Why medicine, why neurosurgery, and his advice to students: be wary of the advice you are getting.

Institutions

• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
• Medical College of Wisconsin
• Nationwide Children's Hospital

People who shaped the path

• Dr. Ernest Ceriani, the rural physician in Life magazine's "Country Doctor"
• The college mentor who told him: if you can imagine doing anything else, do that instead
• The deans, faculty and classmates at Phoenix who made medical school feel like a community

Beyond medicine

• Medical education
• Storytelling
• Camping with classmates
• Student government