JONESBORO - Khaled M. Krisht, MD, has joined the medical staff at St. Bernards Medical Center as a neurosurgeon and is seeing patients at St. Bernards Neurosurgery in Jonesboro.

He is one of 27 new physicians in the St. Bernards “Class of 2015.”

Krisht completed his Bachelor of Science degree in biology at Emory University in Atlanta where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honors society upon graduation for his high academic achievement before earning his Doctor of Medicine degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

He completed an internship in general surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, followed by his neurosurgical residency training at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he served as chief resident.

With a wealth of neurosurgical training at the University of Utah along with an enfolded residency training at both the Huntsman Cancer Center and Intermountain Medical Center, Krisht brings novel and minimally invasive techniques, including the transnasal microscopic approach to the sellar and suprasellar regions for removal of difficult brain tumors.

He is well adept at utilizing state-of-the-art computer image-guidance in addition to performing surgery on awake patients to remove difficult lesions while ensuring minimal postoperative deficits. Krisht is experienced in the treatment of brain, pituitary and spinal cord tumors, simple and complex cervical and lumbar spine disease, cranial and spinal trauma, stroke and pain disorders. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and four book chapters.

Krisht has lived in Lebanon, Greece and the United States. His interests include soccer, snowboarding, snorkeling, diving and traveling.