Roukoz B. Chamoun, MD

Professional Background

Dr Chamoun is the interim Chairman and the program director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Kansas.

He did his training at the American University of Beirut and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Then he did a skull base fellowship at the University of Utah.

HE joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, Department of Neurosurgery in 2012. Ever since, he has been fully invested in patient care, education, research and administrative responsibilities.

His clinical practice is focused on complex cranial pathologies. This includes but not limited to:
- Brain tumors (such as brain metastasis, gliomas, GBM)
- Skull base pathologies and tumors (such as meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, pituitary adenomas)
- Endoscopic brain surgeries (endoscopic endonasal skull base surgeries and endoscopic intraventricular surgeries)
- Vascular neurosurgery (brain aneurysms, AVM)

• MD, Medical School, Univ. of Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon
• Residency, Neurosurgery, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
• Residency, Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Clinical Fellowship, Skull Base, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Medical Doctor (MD), Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
• Physician and Surgeon, Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

• Society of University Neurosurgeons, Member, 2021 - Present
• North American Skull Base Society, Research Committee, Member, 2016 - 2020
• North American Skull Base Society, Membership and Credentials Committee, Member, 2016 - 2020
• North American Skull Base Society, Member, 2012 - Present
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Member, 2007 - Present
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Member, 2007 - Present

• Chamoun, R, Couldwell, W., T. 2011. Practical and technical aspects of trans-sphenoidal surgery.. Journal of neurosurgical sciences, 55 (3), 265-75
• Dharia, A, Gattozzi, DA, Domino, JS, Rouse, AG, Chamoun, RB. 2024. Clear neuroimaging margin at the brain-tumor interface is associated with gross total resection and longer survival in non-enhancing diffuse gliomas.. J Neurosurg Sci
• Chamoun, R, MacDonald, J, Shelton, C, Couldwell, W., T. 2012. Surgical approaches for resection of vestibular schwannomas: translabyrinthine, retrosigmoid, and middle fossa approaches.. Neurosurgical focus, 33 (3), E9
• Hamill, C., S, Villwock, J., A, Sykes, K., J, Chamoun, R., B, Beahm, D., D. 2018. Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Discharge Status of Patients with Uncomplicated Transsphenoidal Adenohypophysectomy.. Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base, 79 (5), 501-507
• Gattozzi, D., A, Alvarado, A, Kitzerow, C, Funkhouser, A, Bimali, M, Moqbel, M, Chamoun, R., B. 2018. Very Large Metastases to the Brain: Retrospective Study on Outcomes of Surgical Management.. World neurosurgery, 116, e874-e881