Michel E. Mawad, M.D. is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of BCM Neurovascular at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. In addition, he is currently appointed as a Professor in the Departments of, Neurosurgery, Neurology and Ophthalmology. He serves as a Consulting Radiologist at Baylor's affiliated hospitals as well as at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was named Chair of the Department of Radiology in 2001.

Dr. Mawad received his undergraduate education at La Salle College, and attended the French School of Medicine where he received the Doctor of Medicine in 1976. He did a flexible internship at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, diagnostic radiology residency at St. Luke’s Hospital Center, New York, New York and a neuroradiology fellowship at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York.

Dr. Mawad is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, the Radiological Society of North America, the Harris County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, European Society of Neuroradiology, the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, American Society of Head and Neck Radiology and the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. Dr. Mawad is the immediate Past-President of the World Federation of Therapeutic and Interventional Neuroradiology (WFITN).

Dr. Mawad is particularly interested in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke, both hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke. He has helped pioneer and develop numerous techniques for the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Endovascular techniques are minimally invasive and offer an excellent viable alternative to invasive "open surgery." Endovascular procedures are much better tolerated by the patient and are usually associated with a short recovery period.