Physician spotlight: Soliman Oushy, MD
First-hand experiences led Dr. Oushy to neurosurgery, Mayfield
There are moments that Dr. Soliman Oushy remembers – moments that shaped his journey to become a physician, and then a neurosurgeon.
While in college at New Mexico State University, he became certified and worked as a firefighter and emergency medical technician. One day, the EMT squad was called to the home of a man having heart trouble. Dr. Oushy had done some yardwork for the man years before, and now he was there as they used CPR to save the man's life.
"That's when I realized that I wanted to do this," he says now. "I felt like I had found something, so that's why I went to medical school."
Another moment came during medical school at the University of Colorado, when it came time to choose a specialty. Dr. Oushy wanted to be involved in surgery and was leaning toward anesthesia or cardiothoracic surgery.
During rotations through neurosurgery, he observed a device implanted into a patient that delivers an electrical current directly to the brain. When the neurosurgery team turned on the device, the symptoms stopped.
"At that point, I was sort of hooked," Dr. Oushy recalls. "It's a unique privilege to be involved in something like that."
Today, Dr. Oushy is the newest neurosurgeon at Mayfield Brain & Spine, the nationally recognized independent practice based in Cincinnati. Mayfield now includes 22 surgeons and six interventional pain physicians, serving patients through six offices. He specializes in neurovascular care, including treatment of strokes, brain aneurysms and other blood vessel disorders of the brain.
Dr. Oushy comes from a medical family. Two of his four sisters also went to medical school. Born in New Mexico, Dr. Oushy lived in Egypt for several years as a child. He wasn't particularly interested in a career in medicine. But that changed in college, and he launched on an accelerated journey to a career as a neurosurgeon.
Following medical school, Dr. Oushy completed a residency in neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic, then a fellowship in neuroendovascular surgery. He has since completed two fellowships, in pediatric cerebrovascular surgery at Boston Children's Hospital, and in cerebrovascular surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami.
Dr. Oushy at Mount Kilimanjaro
At Mayfield, he also will be able to perform minimally invasive spine surgery and procedures for brain tumors, trigeminal neuralgia and other neurologic disorders. In addition, his academic interests include neurovascular microsurgical techniques, endovascular device development, pediatric cerebrovascular disease and artificial intelligence in medicine.
But at the core of his medical practice, Dr. Oushy says he is motivated by the immediate and dramatic impact the neurovascular team can have on the patient's quality of life.
"We're basically plumbers of the brain," he says. "If there's a leak, we plug it. If there's a blockage, we take it out."
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