Professional Profile

Biographical Sketch
Walid Mohabbat is a specialty trained vascular surgeon with subspecialty training in endovascular and aortic surgery. He specialises in open and endovascular stentgraft repairs for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) and aortic dissections, complex endografting (fenestrated and branched endograft repairs) for juxtarenal, suprarenal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and dissections, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS), lower extremity endovascular treatments including angioplasty, stenting, laser atherectomy. He also specialises in endovenous therapies for varicose veins including percutaneous laser vein ablation.
Dr Mohabbat received his medical degree from the University of Sydney. He undertook general surgical training at the RPA and POW hospitals. He then completed a three year fellowship in vascular surgery including training years at RNSH, Sydney and PA, Brisbane. Dr Mohabbat received his FRACS (Vasc) in 2006.
Under the mentorship of Roy Greenberg, MD, a world renowned vascular surgeon, Dr Mohabbat then joined the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus in Cleveland, Ohio USA. There he obtained his Ohio State Board Medical License and completed fellowships in the fields of vascular research, aortic surgery and endovascular surgery in the number one ranked heart and vascular institute in the United States. His main clinical focus was on the endovascular management of complex aortic disease with fenestrated and branched endografts. After two years in the USA, Dr Mohabbat then returned to commence vascular surgical practice.

Education and Training
Medical School: The University of Sydney - Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Residency: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Basic Surgical Training: RACS two year basic surgical training program in General Surgery
Advanced Surgical Training: RACS two year advanced surgical training program in General Surgery
Specialty Training: RACS three year advanced surgical training program in Vascular Surgery - FRACS (Vasc)
Research Training: One year Research Fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery in Cleveland Clinic, USA
Subspecialty Training: One year Endovascular and Aortic Fellowship in Cleveland Clinic, USA

Certifications
Vascular Surgery - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) (Vascular Surgery)

Qualifications

MB BS	Syd	Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
FRACS (Vasc)		Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Specialized in Vascular Surgery

Affiliations

Unknown

Interests & Procedures

Research Publications

HealthEngine Articles

• What is an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
• Is a Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Serious?
• Minimally Invasive Pure Endovascular Therapy

Research Interests
Dr Mohabbat’s research has focused on his specialty interests. During his research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic (CCF) he conducted research on:

• Outcomes of fenestrated and branched aortic endograft techniques
• Endovascular treatment of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Management of thoracic aortic dissection
• The genetic basis for aneurysmal disease
• Collagen vascular deficiency syndromes / connective tissue disorders
• The natural history of aortic aneurysms
• The use of 3D CT workstations for imaging aortic disease and endograft planning and design
• Ultrasound criteria for renal artery stenosis and in-stent re-stenosis

Dr Mohabbat has published in numerous peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Vascular Surgery, the Journal of Endovascular Therapy and the ANZ Journal of Surgery. He has authored a book chapter titled The Endovascular Management of Type 2 Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms. He presented a scientific paper titled "Revised Duplex Criteria and Outcomes for Renal Stents and Stentgrafts following Endovascular Repair of Juxtarenal and Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms" at the SVS Vascular Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Dr Mohabbat has ongoing research in progress on:

• Endovascular management of aortic diseases
• Genetic aortic aneurysms and dissections
• Genetic basis for arterial aneurysms
• Fenestrated and branched endovascular aortic repair
• Natural history of aortic aneurysms
• Percutaneous AAA repair
• Carotid endarterectomy vs. carotid artery stenting
• Renal and mesenteric artery stenting
• Endovascular therapies for PAD / PVD
• Arterial laser atherectomy
• Pharmaco-mechanical treatment for DVT
• Endovenous therapy including endovenous laser

Publications

• Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK, Mastracci TM, Gornick H, Cury M, Morales HP, Pfaff K, Kumar A, Kashyap VS, Hernandez AV. Revised Duplex Criteria and Outcomes for Renal Stents and Stentgrafts Following Endovascular Repair of Juxtarenal and Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms. Journal of Vascular Surgery Apr;49(4):827-37; discussion 837.
• Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK, Cury M, Morales HP, Lu Q, Hernandez AV, Moon M, Morales CA, Bathurst S, Schoenhagen P. Endoleaks Following Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Etiology and Outcomes. Journal of Endovascular Therapy Dec;15(6):631-8.
• Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK, Cury M, Morales HP, Hernandez AV. Supra-aortic Vessels Aneurysms: Diagnosis and Prompt Intervention. Journal of Vascular Surgery Jan;49(1):4-10.
• Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK, Cury M, Morales HP, Morales CA, Hernandez AV. Endovascular Repair of Acute Thoracic Aortic Pathologies. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. In Press 2009 Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK. Endovascular Repair of Type II Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms [in] Parmentier S, ed. Frontiers In Aortic Disease: The Houston Aortic Symposium. Evanston: Greenwood Academic, 2008
• Mohabbat W, Greenberg RK. Complications in Fenestrated Grafting. Abstract for publication International Congress on Endovascular Interventions. Phoenix, Arizona, 2008.
• Mohabbat W, Crawford M, Parker G, Shannon K, White GH. Traumatic vertebro-jugular arteriovenous fistula successfully treated by percutaneous embolisation. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2001 Nov; 71 (11): 688-692.