Doctor Josyann Abisaab started her academic career at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon where she received her B.S. degree with Distinction. She continued her education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where she completed her medical degree in 1989.
She spent her residency and internship in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital/ Cornell University Medical College. Since 1992, she has been an Assistant Attending Physician in the Emergency Department of New York Presbyterian Hospital and has been an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Abisaab published an article called "Emergency department presentation of bilateral carotid artery dissections in a postpartum patient", that she co-wrote with N. Nevadunsky and N. Flomenbaum. It is published in the November, 2004 edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
