Lebanese lawmaker Ghassan Skaff died after a battle with cancer, his office said on Saturday.
Skaff was elected to parliament in the 2022 legislative elections, representing the Western Bekaa–Rashaya district.
Alongside his political career, Skaff was a prominent neurosurgeon and academic. He had served as professor and head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) since January 2007, and as director of its Spine Program since 2002.
He previously held several senior positions at AUBMC, including associate professor and acting head of the Department of Neurosurgery between 2006 and 2007, and assistant professor from 1998 to 2006.
Skaff also served as Director of Education for the Middle East Council of the AO Spine organization, an international body, and chaired the Scientific Committee of the Lebanese Medical Association from 2010 to 2016. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Medical Committee at the University of Balamand.
His medical training included residencies in neurosurgery at the University of Toronto in Canada and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1998, a neurosurgery fellowship from the University of Toronto the same year, and the American Board of Neurosurgery in 1997.
Skaff held a Master of Business Administration degree as well as a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
He is survived by his wife, Maysam Younes, and their three sons, Philip, Patrick and Ralph.
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