Neurosurgery
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Our acute neurosurgery service is based in the major trauma centre at St Mary's Hospital. We also offer critical care services for some neurovascular issues at Charing Cross Hospital, some of which are linked with our hyperacute stroke unit.
Elective neurosurgery and acute neurovascular and skull base services are provided at Charing Cross Hospital, whilst all acute neurosurgery, including neurotrauma, are treated at St Mary’s Hospital in the Major Trauma Centre.
We have both cranial and spinal adult neurosurgery, and adult and children's neurotrauma (cranial and spinal) services at the Trust.
Our team of consultant neurosurgeons provide treatment for the following:
Cranial
Neuro-oncology
This includes benign and malignant primary and secondary brain tumours and cranial and spinal metastases, find out more in our neuro-oncology service pages.
- Miss Sophie Camp
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
- Mr David Peterson
Neurovascular
This includes aneurysms, vascular malformations, cavernomas and follow up for spontaneous haemorrhage (if appropriate).
- Mr Ramesh Nair
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
Cerebro-spinal fluid disorders
This includes hydrocephalus, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and Chiari malformation.
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Prof Mark Wilson
Functional
This includes deep brain stimulation and MRgFUS for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
Craniofacial
This includes craniofacial tumours, deformities and reconstruction surgery.
- Mr Kevin Tsang
Cranial trauma
This includes closed and open head injuries and craniofacial injuries (major trauma centre).
Skull base, including pituitary tumours
This includes benign (vestibular schwannoma, meningioma) and metastatic skull based tumours and benign (adenoma, meningioma, craniopharygioma) and metastatic pituitary tumours.
- Mr Nigel Mendoza
- Mr Ramesh Nair
Spinal
Neuro-oncology
This includes benign and malignant primary and secondary spinal tumours and metastatic spinal cord compression.
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Degenerative spinal conditions
This includes degenerative cervical, thoracic, and lumbar conditions.
- Mr Mo Akmal
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Reza Mobasheri
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Spinal trauma
This includes traumatic cervical, thoracic and lumbar injuries, including spinal cord injuries.
- Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Peripheral nerve conditions
This includes carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve decompression.
- Mr Mo Akmal
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Nigel Mendoza
- Mr Reza Mobasheri
- Mr Ramesh Nair
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
- Prof Mark Wilson
Additional information
Clinical trials and research
Trials are offered to patients dependent on their suitability and will be offered by a consultant. For further information on trials please ask your consultant. Current trials centre around deep brain stimulation, oncology and trauma.
Further online resources
Your inpatient stay Your stay in hospital
You may need to stay at one of our hospitals to have a procedure or receive treatment, either overnight as an inpatient or during the day as a day patient. Ahead of your inpatient stay, you will usually need to attend a pre-operative assessment appointment.
Find out more about how you can reschedule or cancel your inpatient stay, pre-operative assessments, what to bring with you when you come to hospital and much more.
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Words cannot express how grateful I am to my wonderful neurosurgeon and team for their skill, hard work and kindness. Every member of staff that I met during my stay were kind, caring and professional.
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