Raymond Sawaya is the Raja N. Khuri Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the American University of Beirut. He is also professor emeritus at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Sawaya was previously professor, founding chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, and the director of the Brain Tumor Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine (2005–14). He has received several awards including the Joseph P. Evans Award in Neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati and the Charles Wilson Award from the National Brain Tumor Society. Sawaya has published more than 300 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, authored over 45 book chapters, and written and edited 11 books. He is a noted leader in the field of neurosurgery with particular expertise in primary and metastatic brain tumors. He is renowned for his great strides in enhancing the accessibility and safety of brain tumor surgery.