Dr. Naeem Ahmed Farooqi

Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon at Burjeel Medical City

Experience:

25+ years

Areas of Expertise and Treatment:

• Surgical and non-surgical management of acute, chronic and neuropathic pain (head, face, arm, hand, pelvis)
• Spinal problems: infections, congenital disorders, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia — open and minimally invasive methods
• Ultrasound and X-ray guided injection therapy (inpatient and outpatient)
• Brain diseases: head trauma, brain tumours, hydrocephalus (VP shunt, endoscopic procedures)
• Neuropathic pain procedures: spinal cord stimulator implantation and long-term follow-up
• Central and peripheral nerve decompression (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome)
• Microdiscectomy
• Disc replacement (cervical / lumbar)
• Kyphoplasty
• Laminectomy
• Craniotomy
• Spinal fusion
• Brain tumour treatment (glioblastoma, meningioma, astrocytoma, ependymomas, oligodendrogliomas, mixed gliomas, PNETs)
• Treatment of high intracranial pressure, cerebral edema and CSF obstruction
• Spinal stenosis, disc herniation, disc degeneration, disc bulge and disc desiccation
• Vertebral osteoporosis, vertebral compression fractures, vertebral hemangioma and vertebral tumours
• Spondylolisthesis, scoliosis and spinal arthritis
• Hydrocephalus and cerebral edema
• Epilepsy, stroke, traumatic head injury and brain abscess
• Movement disorders: Parkinson’s disease, tremors, dystonia and Huntington’s disease
• Psychiatric conditions: obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic depression and Tourette’s syndrome
• Dementia and multiple sclerosis
• Aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation
• Paget’s disease and achondroplasia
• Acoustic neuroma and pituitary adenoma

Education & Qualifications:

• Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCSEd)
• Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MRCSI)
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Neurosurgery (FRCSEd – Neurosurgery)
• Extensive certificate training in neurosurgery
• Fellowship in Pain, Epilepsy Surgery, Functional and Spastic Surgery — Liverpool, UK
• Fellowship in Complex Spine Surgery — Birmingham, UK

Professional memberships:

• Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS)
• British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)
• Emirates Neurosurgical Society (ENS)
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (NASS)

Languages:

English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Punjabi