 One of the highlights of this period was in early 1980 when he heard news of a rare medical incident at the Beirut International Airport.A well-renowned obstetrician Dr. Fahim Dagher had performed a semi-fetal open surgery on a patient in an unprecedented medical urgency.Bemused by the news, he reached out to Dr. Dagher for further collaboration and research which ultimately culminated in the first ever open fetal surgery.