Dr. Morsi is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who specializes in functional and epilepsy neurosurgery surgery. Additional surgical expertise includes neuro oncology, Spine degenerative disease and neuro trauma. He serves as Director of Neurotrauma.
Dr. Morsi received his medical degree from University of Alexandria, School of Medicine in 2008. Following medical school, he worked at NYU Langone medical center as a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of neurosurgery. His clinical and basic science research involved different areas in neurosurgery including brain tumor and gamma knife radiotherapy, degenerative disc disease and vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) in treatment resistant epilepsy. During his time in the lab of Drs. Wadghiri and Turnbull he succeeded in developing a mouse model of melanoma brain metastasis and successfully utilized in vivo MRI for the characterization of tumor growth. This garnered interest of the Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group (IMCG) at NYU leading to a collaborative effort investigating MicroRNA in melanoma brain metastasis pathogenesis.
Dr. Morsi completed a residency in neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. During his residency training he underwent a dedicated fellowship year in epilepsy surgery under the mentorship of Dr. William Bingaman, a prominent epilepsy surgeon, learning complex epilepsy surgery with use of language mapping, awake craniotomy, laser ablation, and robotic stereoelectroencephalography surgery for epileptogenic foci localization. He subsequently completed a functional neurosurgery fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with a focus on deep brain stimulation for movement disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and treatment resistant major depression.
Dr. Morsi specializes in functional and epilepsy neurosurgery as well as general neurosurgery. Utilizes deep brain stimulation (DBS) and focused ultrasound for treatment of various movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease, essential tremors, Tourette’s disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) with special interest in treatment resistant major depressive disorder. In addition, he utilizes all types of epilepsy surgery techniques, ranging from traditional anterior temporal lobectomy, corpus callosotomy, lesionectomy, functional hemispherotomy, and vagal nerve stimulation, to minimally invasive MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), robotic electrode placement and stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) to localize a seizure focus and guide epilepsy surgery to newer neuromodulation techniques, such as responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS). In addition, Dr. Morsi specializes in the treatment of various neurosurgical conditions, including brain and spinal tumors, degenerative disc disease and spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain.
Dr. Morsi has a research interest in epilepsy surgery outcome, brain tumors and deep brain stimulation. He has extensively published peer-reviewed articles in leading neurosurgical journals.
Currently, Dr. Morsi sees and treats patients at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, University Hospital at Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School.
Society Membership
2016 - Current American Association Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
2016 - Current Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
2009 - 2014 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Neuro-Critical Care Enfolded Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio
Fellowship
Epilepsy Surgery Enfolded Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio
Fellowship
Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY
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