Karim S. Trad

Karim S. Trad, MD is an American Board-certified in General Surgery and a Clinical Professor with The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, completed a six-year general surgery residency at George Washington University and a fellowship in Endoscopic Surgery with Dr. Jeffrey Ponsky at Case Western Reserve. Dr. Trad returned to GW as the Director of Surgical Endoscopy and headed the newly established Laparoscopic Surgery Program. Among many achievements, he is credited with performing Metropolitan Washington’s first Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication and with leading the area's first Laparoscopic Training facility at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. In 1996, Dr. Trad returned to Lebanon to serve as Medical Director at Trad Hospital for almost 10 years. Then, he came back to the United States and joined Dr. Daniel Turgeon in Reston's premier General Surgery practice, Reston Surgical Associates, which is now a part of The GW Medical Faculty Associates. Dr. Trad has served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Reston Hospital in Reston, Virginia, and is currently the Vice-President of its medical staff.