Sadek Hilal

Sadek Kamil Hilal (1930, Cairo – 2000, New Jersey, sometimes Sadek Kamel Hilal) was a Columbia University radiologist and one of the most influential researchers in advancing imaging science and radiology in the twentieth century.[1]

Doctor

Sadek Kamel Hilal
Born1930
Cairo, Egypt
DiedDecember 24, 2000
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationMD, Cairo University Medical School; PhD, radiology, University of Minnesota
OccupationRadiology practitioner; Lecturer and head of radiology department at Columbia
Known forEmbolization of blood vessels in the brain;
TitleDirector of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center; Professor of radiology and neurological surgery at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Spouse(s)Cynthia Ann Tutundgy
ChildrenPaul, Peter, Philip, Diane Campo
Parents
  • Dr. Kamel Boutros Hilal, MD (father)
  • Alice-Helene Joseph (Kanawaty) Hilal (mother)
RelativesGhanem Kamel Hilal, Adel Kamel Hilal, Fayiz Kamel Hilal (brothers), and Hoda Kamel (Hilal) Kosseim (sister)

Personal life

Sadek Kamil Hilal was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Dr. Kamel Boutros Hilal, MD and Alice-Helene Joseph Kanawaty. He was baptized "Peter" in honor of his grandfather, Boutros Ibrahim Hilal. He had three brothers, Ghanem (December 16, 1931 Cairo – September 17, 1998 of Plymouth, MN), Adel (September 29, 1935 Cairo – August 18, 2016 of Golden Valley, MN), and Fayiz (July 11, 1940, Cairo – August 1, 1915, Poughkeepsie, NY), and a sister Hoda (of Greenwich, CT). The family was Melkite Catholic.[2][3][4][5]

Sadek was born into a medical family with a tradition of community service. His father, Dr. Kamil Boutros Hilal, was part of a humanitarian mission sent to Adana, Turkey during the Adana Massacres of Armenian Christians in 1909, and was a founding member of the Alumni Association of the American University of Beirut Medical School.[6] Sadek followed his father's footsteps into a medical career.

He attended the French Jesuit College de Sainte Familie in Cairo for his primary and secondary education, and received his Medical Degree from Cairo University. While attending Cairo University, Sadek had to hide his Christianity from his professors by omitting his grandfather's name and using his great-grandfather's instead; going by Sadek Kamil Ibrahim Hilal rather than Sadek Kamil Boutros Hilal. As fair, blue-eyed Christians of Syrian and Lebanese descent, the family faced regular discrimination from Egyptian society and institutions. When the Egyptian government of Gamal Abdul Nasser began persecuting Christians in the late 1950s, the family decided to fulfill their late father Kamel's dream of immigrating to the United States.

Sadek arrived in the United States first, and was accepted into the radiology Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota. Brothers Ghanem "George", Adel "Marc", and Fayiz; sister Hoda "Mimi", and mother Alice joined Sadek in Minnesota after short stays in Brooklyn and Endicott, NY. Adel and Fayiz joined Sadek in studying at the University of Minnesota, where Adel earned a Master of Electrical Engineering and Fayiz earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Ghanem and Marc spent their careers working for IBM, Control Data Systems, and Honeywell and its successor companies: Alliant TechSystems and Orbital ATK. Fayiz was a businessman and philanthropist, founder of Cetek Technologies, a high-tech ceramics manufacturer. Hoda was a master Librarian in Greenwich.

Dr. Hilal married Cynthia Ann Tutundgy on June 28, 1964.[7] She was a guidance counselor at a parochial school in Brooklyn. They had three sons and a daughter, and lived in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The children are Paul, Philip, and twins, Drs. Peter Hilal and Diane Hilal Campo.[1][8] The Hilal's

Kamil, sometimes spelled Kamel, is a patronymic middle name. An Arabic speaker understands "Sadek Kamil Hilal" to mean "Sadek, son of Kamil Hilal".

Career

He received his medical degree from the Cairo University School of Medicine[7] in 1955 and earned a doctorate in radiology from the University of Minnesota in 1962. His thesis entitled, The Measurement of Blood Flow by Radiologic Technique, became one of the most frequently cited references in the field, according to the journal Radiology.

Columbia University recruited him in 1963 as an assistant professor and assisting attending radiologist. He then became the director of Columbia's division of radiology and was a professor of radiology and neurological surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1979 until his emeritus status four years before his death. At his death in 2000, age 70, he was president of the International Society of Neuroradiology, a position he held since 1998.

In 1968, he developed the technique of embolization, a way to treat malformations of blood vessels in the brain by injecting substances to occlude them. This step is considered pivotal in the history of interventional radiology.[9] The findings were published in 1975 in the Journal of Neurosurgery.[10]

He developed the Hilal Stent to aid treatment of cerebral blood vessels.

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References
  1. New York Times Obituary, "Dr. Sadek Hilal, 70, Pioneer In Detecting Brain Diseases", By Wolfgang Saxon, Jan 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/nyregion/dr-sadek-hilal-70-pioneer-in-detecting-brain-diseases.html
  2. "Fayiz Hilal's Obituary on Poughkeepsie Journal". Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  3. "Ghanem Kamel Hilal (1931 - 1998) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  4. "Obituary for Adel Kamel 'Marc' Hilal". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  5. "Obituary for Adel 'Marc' Hilal - Robbinsdale, MN". www.gearty-delmore.com. Archived from the original on 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  6. "Doctors, Disease, and Death: WWI and Armenians at the Syrian Protestant College". Armenian Weekly. April 29, 2020.
  7. "Cynthia Ann Tutundgy Wed to Dr. Sadek Hilal". The New York Times. 1964-06-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  8. "Den Mothers | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  9. Columbia Neuroscience http://neuroscience.columbia.edu/index.php?page=1
  10. Hilal SK and Michelsen JW. "Therapeutic percutaneous embolization for extra-axial vascular lesions of the head, neck, and spine." J Neurosurg. 1975 Sep;43(3):275-87.
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