Dr. Essam Elgamal

Consultant & HOD Neurosurgery – Adult and Pediatric (Brain and Spine).

Experience:

35 years

Areas of Expertise and Treatment

• Navigation-guided brain tumour surgery for adults and children
• Complex hydrocephalus and neuro-endoscopy
• Shunt implantation and endoscopic procedures for hydrocephalus
• Spina bifida and neural tube defects
• Spinal cord tumours
• Craniosynostosis
• Intrathecal drug delivery pump implantation (e.g. Baclofen therapy) and regular care
• Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
• Spinal lipoma and spinal cord tethering
• Fetal medicine counselling for brain and spinal cord anomalies
• Paediatric neurosurgery

Education:

• Graduated from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt – 1984
• MS – Alexandria University
• Training in Neurosurgery – Alexandria University Hospitals, Bristol (UK), Oxford (UK)
• Fellowship in Surgery
• Fellowship in Neurosurgery – Walter E. Dandy

Professional memberships:

• General Medical Council – UK
• Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery
• Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgery
• International Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery
• Asian Conference of Neurological Surgeons

Awards & Publications:

• The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz International Award for translation in Natural Sciences – 2009
• Over 55 publications in peer-reviewed journals
• 5 book chapters

Languages:

Arabic, English