USA Health Neurologist Wins National Award

Dr. Bassam Bassam, a neuromuscular neurologist at USA Health, was recently unanimously voted as the recipient of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine’s 2023 Distinguished Physician Award. The award was established to honor a member of the association who has provided distinguished service for a number of years as a clinician and/or educator and is an active member and supporter of the association. Bassam attended medical school at Aleppo University College of Medicine in Aleppo, Syria. After an internal medicine residency at Makassed General Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, he moved to the U.S. for a neurology residency and neuromuscular disease and electromyography fellowship at Detroit Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic. He joined USA Health in 1985 and currently serves as a professor of neurology at the University of South Alabama (USA) Whiddon College of Medicine and as the director of the Neuromuscular Clinic & EMG Laboratory at USA Health. He will be honored with the Distinguished Physician Award at the association’s annual meeting in early November. He also has been invited to present a workshop on nerve conduction pitfalls at the meeting.