Sameh Abolfotouh

Sameh Abolfotouh is from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sameh is currently AO Spine MENA Chairman Elect at AO Spine. Sameh also works as Deputy Editor at Global Spine Journal (GSJ), a job Sameh has held since Aug 2025. Another title Sameh currently holds is Associate Editor at International Journal of Spine Surgery. In Sameh's previous role as a Chairman and Community Developement Officer at AOSpine, Sameh worked in GCC until Jun 2023. Prior to joining AOSpine, Sameh was a Clinical Spine Surgery Fellow at University of Missouri-Columbia and held the position of Clinical Spine Surgery Fellow at Missouri, USA. Prior to that, Sameh was a Research and Fellowships' officer at AOSpine, based in GCC from Jun 2016 to Aug 2019. Sameh started working as Clinical Spine Surgery Fellow at Center for Spine and Orthopedics in Denver, Colorado, United States in Jul 2017. From Sep 2012 to Oct 2017, Sameh was Orthopedics Resident at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, based in Doha, Qatar.