Elias Shaaya, MD

Elias Shaaya, MD, is a fellowship-trained cerebrovascular neurosurgeon with Brown University Health’s neurosurgery and neurointerventional radiology programs and the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Rhode Island Hospital.

Dr. Shaaya has collaborated on research published in several prestigious peer-reviewed, academic journals and spoken at national neurosurgical conferences on various neurosurgical diseases and treatment with a particular focus on spinal and cerebrovascular topics. He has authored multiple chapters in neurosurgical textbooks. In addition, he was a collaborator on the Intelligent Spinal Interface project with the Brown Neuromotion Lab, a project funded by DARPA, which looked at restoring function in patients with spinal cord injury.

A native of Beirut, Dr. Shaaya earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University before graduating Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He completed neurosurgery residency and a neurointerventional radiology fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital/The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Shaaya is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery.

He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.