User:Nassim Abi Chahine

Nassim Halim Abi Chahine MD PhD General Neurosurgeon, born on 12 May 1977 in Amioun a central village in north Lebanon, Grandson of Halim Nassim Abi Chahine, who was one of the earliest Lebanese surgeons. Qualified from the Medical University of Lodz Poland. Student of the renowned Professor Bogdan Bronislaw Goetzen the Polish anatomist and neuro-angiologist.

Education
Qualified from the Medical Academy of Lodz and Medical University of Lodz Poland, receiving his European board and graduating on the 24th of May 2002.

Completion of an 8 year residency in surgery including a full length 6 years in neurosurgery at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut Lebanon in association with University of Balamand. Specialty diploma issued on the 31st of December 2010.

A PhD in International Management from The European Global School, June 2018

Professional performance
Career

Nassim Abi Chahine, grandson of a surgeon, started his career at the age of 34 as a practitioner in the field of brain and neurospine surgery. He took navigation of his teachers’ department at the orthodox hospital in the lebanese capital. After studying and collecting the majority of reliable sources and data about human stem cells, he started a new era of medical practice treating hopeless cases, using autologous stem cells of different sources, what made his results a product of heavy talks and debates. Oppression by opponents did not lead to stop him from developing more techniques. He told in one of his talk shows that while he was transferring cells from the University research laboratory to the hospital where he aimed to treat his paraplegic patient, it came to his mind an innovative idea. He stopped at the Mc Donald’s parking and mixed in his car the bone marrow aspirate he had in ice with an extract of a human placenta: I lived my patients’ diseases, had a mission to understand stem cells and translate their language to the world of medical practice, wherever I went I found my own lab he always stated.

In 2015, he registered and patented the Regentime Procedure at the archives of the lebanese ministry of economy before traveling to Shanghai China where he launched his technique during a global stem cell congress. The procedure had a powerful scientific resonance.

Believing that he will never get a prize for his invention; having a near eastern nationality, Nassim stepped into a protective measure for his therapy through a public release at a dedicated website, meticulously writing full steps and details about his method.

Echos were powerful among the global audience. The Regentime Procedure was based on shortly incubating human bone marrow derived stem cells with organ-specific peptides so undifferentiated cells start differentiation into specific progenitor cell line! Abi Chahine’s procedure couldn’t be disregarded by scientific minds. Progenitor cells were given back to the initial patient, so they can reside into the meant organ through a known phenomenon called active homing, then a long way of regeneration starts. Abi Chahine’s most known phrase about regenerative medicine was regeneration is a process, not an event.

He also proved that the fresh unstored cells are the safest, pushing for the use of autologous bone marrow derived mononuclear cells of a full drop buffy-coat, preventing DNA contamination. Sourcing themselves, Nassim’s patients rarely received allografts. This also could be a cause of originality where some friends of his time tried to use embryonic cells and stored umbilical cord ones. Nassim’s method included a pre-collection phase where he increased the number of adult stem cells, enhancing their proliferation via the use of a granulocyte growth factor. He said: the bone marrow is the ultimate incubator.

His continuous struggle was with other physicians who could not understand the fundamental nature of the new era. He also attempted to use the public university stage to write a thesis about stem cells, but the chief of department of neuropsychology and his colleagues refused the thesis after M2 master’s studies, arguing that stem cell use is not approved yet by the FDA.

In the following couple of years, he tried to have his own laboratory in Lebanon. When the syndicate and governmental laws faced him with negativity, he successfully ended-up in 2017 funding his first state-of-the-art biomolecular lab in Nottingham UK, it was named ACE Cells Lab Ltd. He was encouraged to base this lab in the United Kingdom by his older friend Professor Alaa Mohamad Fouad Abdelkarim, who originates from Egypt. Both men met in a stem cell workshop in Kota Kinabalu in the state of Sabah Malaysia, 3 years earlier.

Nassim traveled from one country to another eagerly conferencing about his procedure, surprising his audience in 2017 in boston USA at the Drug Discovery Congress and later in 2018 in New York with an eye catching presentation The Regentime procedure, Gate To Immortality.

Earlier professional life

Nassim’s workaholism emerged at an early age.


 * - Trained at the surgery department of St. George Hospital Beirut (2002-2004)


 * - volunteering as a surgeon during the 2006 lebanese-Israeli war.


 * - Effected 250 community health days between 2007 and 2010 in rural areas, guiding a large team of medical residents, nurses and dietitians.


 * - Assisted at the Central Military Hospital (2007-2011) as a neuro-spine trainee, Badaro Beirut, 2007-2011.


 * - Cooperated in educating medical students of the Lebanese University, Saint Joseph University , University of Balamand.


 * - Appeared in more than 2000 medical posts on the World Wide Web with thousands of citations on Google before 2011.

Intellectual possessions

 * Corresponding author of Stem Cells Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis a work published on the 29th of October 2020. Stem Cells Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis is the seventh chapter in the book Stem Cell-based Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases which in its turn is a part of the book series Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology published by the multinational academic publishing group Springer Nature main section of Springer Link.
 * Pubmed and index Copernicus scientific articles:
 * 1. HG80 issues in the management of children with brain tumors and biallelic mismatch gene repair
 * 2. Spinal extradural arachnoid cysts April 2007
 * 3. A rare etiology of myelopathy: Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula October 2007
 * 4. Dandy-Walker malformation: Surgical treatment of 17 cases April 2008
 * 5. Kyphoplasty, state-of-the-art October 2008
 * 6. First global case of brain abscess caused by Kluyvera April 2008
 * 7. Treatment of Long Standing Multiple Sclerosis with Regentime Stem Cell Technique
 * 8. Success of heparin use in intraventricular haematoma treatment October 2009
 * 9. How to Maximize the Success of Stem Cell Autografts for Neuroregeneration March 2015
 * 10. Bone marrow derived stem cell therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus
 * 11. Autologous Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
 * 12. Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for refractory scleroderma: A report of 2 cases
 * 13. Treatment of Cerebral Palsy with Stem Cells: A Report of 17 Cases
 * 14. A case report of congenital glycogen storage liver cirrhosis treated with bone marrow derived stem cells
 * 15. Ongoing issues with the management of children with Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency syndrome
 * 14. A case report of congenital glycogen storage liver cirrhosis treated with bone marrow derived stem cells
 * 15. Ongoing issues with the management of children with Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency syndrome

Brain Surgery

 * - Tumors, all approaches
 * - Epilepsy surgery
 * - Pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease
 * - Bleeding management
 * - Malformations’ surgical expertise (Arnold-Chiari malformation, Dandy-Walker syndrome)
 * - Shunting, Hydrocehalus and ventricular derivations.

Skull and Face Surgery

 * - Skull plasty
 * - Para-orbital reconstructive surgery
 * - Post-traumatic facial repair
 * - Facial neuralgias

Neck Surgery

 * - Cervical discs surgeries
 * - Cervical instrumentations
 * - Vertebral tumors management
 * - Spinal and spinal roots tumors management
 * - Spinal roots surgery
 * - Neck muscles surgery

Back Surgery

 * - Kaneda approach for thoracic vertebral column pathology
 * - Spinal Fistulas, AVMs, Fistula and Dural Arachnoid Cysts
 * - Intra- and extra-axial cord tumors’ surgical management
 * - Vertebroplasty: Kyphoplasty, Stentoplasty and Cementoplasty
 * - Myelomeningoceles repair
 * - Instrumentations: Classic, transcutaneous, endoscopic and navigation
 * - Thoraco-Lumbar junction management
 * - Expertise in spinous spacers
 * - Cauda Equina, Filum Terminale and Tethered Cord Surgeries
 * - Lumbo-peritoneal shunts
 * - Disc surgery [classic and micro-incision techniques]
 * - Sacral and coxygeal surgery

Peripheral Nerve Surgery

 * - Nerve Grafting, transplantation, transposition and micro-suturing techniques
 * - Peripheral nerves tumors’ surgical management
 * - Nerve Liberation techniques
 * - Brachial plexus surgery
 * - Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS)

Miscellaneous competencies
Neuropsychology

Membership

 * - Moderator of the ‘MedHelp International Neurosurgery forum’.
 * - Member of the Walter E. Dandy Neurosurgical Society The society for operative neurosurgery
 * - Member of WALN, the World Association of Lebanese Neurosurgeons.
 * - Cofounder of the WALN-Young Neurosurgeon Committee.
 * - Member of the ‘Lebanese Society of Neurosurgery’.
 * - Member of the wikiproject Lebanon, writing about Lebanon’s people and scientists.
 * - Elected Residents Representative at Saint George Hospital Beirut in 2006 and 2008.
 * - Member of the The Resident Teaching Committee at Saint Georges Hospital Beirut.

Current research
Regeneration of Spinal Cord Myelopathic Segment Using Autologous Adult Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells

Didactic Activities

 * I. lecturered of the Master degree of Actualites en neurologie (The latest in neurology) in the physiotherapy subspecialty Reeducation en neurologie (Neurological rehabilitation), at the Faculty of Medicine Saint Joseph University Beirut ( Jesuit Institutions of Higher Learning in Lebanon ).
 * II. Presented the annual conference on Surgical knots, sutures, stitches, needles, instruments, incisions and wounds healing for PGY-1, PGY-2 residents of surgery, Med 3 and Med 4, with a fundamental hands-on demonstration and practice.
 * III. Trained in surgical and clinical skills hundreds of students from both The Lebanese University and The University of Balamand, between years 2002 and 2010.
 * IV. Lecturer at the in-service nursing program of Saint George Hospital and the Red Cross nursing studium, Tripoli Lebanon.
 * V. Visiting lecturer at the Doctorate degree in Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy Saint Joseph University Beirut (Jesuit Institutions of Higher Learning in Lebanon)

Achievements

 * Pioneer of a new method of treatment of intra-ventricular hematomas; a life saving procedure in repetitive external derivation closure. Results and Methods of this new management were published in October 2009. (Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery 615 - AOC Draft + Queries 25.5.09.pdf).
 * Writer of the theory of FF syndrome
 * Inventor of the Regentime Procedure The Regentime Procedure is mainly created and meant for organ regeneration, mainly efficient in early stages of different organ degenerations. Summary of the Regentime (Registered Mark) technique: Autologous Adult Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells Transplantation which is Transplantation of In-Vivo Proliferated and Mobilized Autologous Adult Bone Marrow Derived Human Progenitor Cells Ex-Vivo Incubated with Organ-Specific-Xeno-Ultra-Filtrates.

Extracurricular activities

 * Expert in ES Teck, a biofeedback device, manufactured by LD TECK Miami Florida, developed by the French physician Albert Maarek , the human body screening device in 4 minutes, a sophisticated version of the EIS (Electro-Interstitial Scanner) and the ESG (Electro-Somato-Gram).

Donation
Although in the surgeon’s country this type of donation is not rewarded in any mean, Abi Chahine’s primary charity “Life is Better With Stem Cells” works to sponsor 75% of a stem cell transplantation cost for regenerative purposes. Since 2010 selection of patients was based on the patient’s quality of life a stem cell transplantation procedure can have and its impact on his or her social behavior.

Dr Abi Chahine’s voluntary foundation also may reach low-hope medical cases necessitating stem cell therapies containing cellular products, due to the high tariffs of such treatments, the surgeon has a limit for acts other than the transplantations.

Abi Chahine’s establishment ACE Cells Lab Ltd. in UK dedicates since 2017 a substantial part of its profit to support the charity.

Mobile:

+ 961 789 438 60

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+ 961 695 11 00