Best Neurosurgeons in Harley St, London, UK

Mr. Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek is an award-winning Consultant Neurosurgeon who specialises in complex spinal surgery. He approaches spinal problems with a multidisciplinary approach to achieve the best possible results for patients, working closely with orthopaedic spinal surgeons, pain specialists and physiotherapists. He treats all spinal conditions from the cranio-vertebral junction to the sacrum and has a particular interest in acute spinal conditions such as disc prolapse, radicular pain, neck/back pain, and sciatica, as well as myelopathy and spinal tumours. 

He completed the Sir Hugh Cairns combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical complex spinal fellowship at the Royal London Hospital. Prior to this he was an academic Walport trainee in Wessex and held the Jason Brice Fellowship in Neurosurgical research during which he spent a year at the Universitätklinikum Bonn, Germany. He was awarded a doctorate (D.Phil. Oxon) in 2005 from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology unit at the University of Oxford. He has an academic interest in spinal pathology and has published over 30 research studies and numerous book chapters.

Mr. Sadek also enjoys his role as a Lecturer on the Neuroscience and Translational Medicine masters programme at Queen Marys University of London.

Mr Bhupal Chitnavis is Consultant Neurosurgeon who specialised in Spinal surgery. 

Mr Chitnavis attained his medical degree from Guy's Hospital, London. He went to complete his specialist surgical training at Great Ormond Street and King's College Hospital, London. While at King's, he developed a keen interest in vascular neurosurgery and spinal surgery under Professor Anthony Strong and Dr Richard Gullan, respectively. Prior to his training, Mr Chitnavis had neurosurgical experience in Birmingham with the late Professor Edward Hitchcock and later on at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery with Professor Lindsay Simon. He also has experience in high flow vascular bypass techniques. 

Mr Chitnavis' principal special interest lies in spinal surgery, specifically complex stabilisation and development of new instrumentation. Mr Chitnavis also has expertise in orthopaedic spinal surgery methods with experience in Germany with Professor Jurgen Harms and further training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London.

Alongside his private practice, Mr Chitnavis is involved with surgical charity work in developing nations. He trains both spinal and neurosurgeons at the Royal College of Surgeons and continues to work in the NHS. His professional memberships include the Society of British Neurosurgeons, the Independent Doctors Federation and the CyberKnife Society. 

• Laminectomy
• Cervical Spine Surgery
• Lumbar Spine Decompression
• Lumbar Spine Microdiscectomy
• complex instrument spine surgery
• Spinal injections for pain
• surgery for sciatica
• cyberknife

• Scoliosis
• Neck Pain
• Arm Pain
• Cyberknife

Mr Babak Arvin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon with a specialist interest in spine surgery. This includes complex spine surgery, cervical spine (diseases and disorders of), cervical spondylosis, degenerative spine disease, spinal tumours and spinal trauma.

Mr Arvin obtained his medical degree from St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College and undertook his surgical training in London. He has undertaken 2 fellowships in complex spine and trauma surgery in Toronto Canada and Melbourne Australia.

Mr Arvin has a PhD and an active research portfolio. He has a full-time consultant practice at Queens Hospital for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University NHS Trust.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Complex Revision Spinal Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
• Surgery For Myelopathy
• Artificial Disc Replacement
• Cervical (Neck) Surgery
• Discectomy
• Epidural Injection
• Kyphoplasty
• Laminectomy
• Lumbar Back Surgery
• Nerve Root Injection
• Spinal Decompresson
• Spinal Fusion
• Spine Fracture Surgery
• Thoracic Back Surgery
• Complex Spinal Disorders
• Degenerative Disc Disease
• Lower Back Pain
• Spinal Stenosis
• Spine Fractures And Trauma
• Spine Tumours And Infections
• Spondylolisthesis & Spondylolysis
• Vertebral Compression Fracture

Mr Ibrahim is a highly qualified neurosurgeon who has developed a specialist interest in simple and complex spinal procedures.

Mr Ibrahim won numerous international awards in management of spinal conditions including the prestigious American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons- Crockard prize awarded to the best international fellow. Mr Ibrahim's research in neck (cervical) spine was awarded best resident/fellow paper by the North American Cervical Spine Research Society in 2014.

In recognition of Mr Ibrahim's spinal expertise he was selected in 2015 as a sole surgeon from the UK and only 1 of 2 surgeons from across Europe to join a group of 6 international fellows for an international traveling fellowship to visit world leading spinal units in the USA and Canada where he further advanced his skills and knowledge of complex spine surgery.

Mr Ibrahim carried out stem cell research in the repair of nerves after spinal cord paralysis and showed that restoration of function was possible using highly specialized cells. The research findings were published in premier peer-reviewed journals and was featured in Sunday Times magazine and BBC 2's Horizon's .

Mr Ibrahim obtained medical degree from St Bartholomew's Hospital followed higher neurosurgical training in North Thames deanery in London.

Mr Ibrahim is currently a complex spinal surgeon in a busy NHS practice managing spinal tumours, trauma, degenerative conditions and continues to conduct collaborative national and international research in spine.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Neck Pain, Arm Pain, Spinal Cord Injury, Sciatica, Back and Leg Pain, Spinal Canal Narrowing, Spinal Tumours, Spinal Fusion Surgery,

Thoracic Disc Disease, Facial pain, Nerve entrapment.

Mr Parag Sayal is a Consultant Neurosurgeon with a specialist interest In Complex spinal surgery, Endoscopic Skull base surgery and minimally invasive procedures.

He is a Consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London, part of the University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust. He provides private consultations and services at The Wellington Hospital & also at the Queen Square Private Consulting rooms.

Mr Sayal's practice encompasses the entire range of Simple and Complex Spinal surgery ie.

1.Degenerative spinal conditions ( patients with back pain, sciatica / leg pain, neck pain , arm pain, radiculopathy , myelopathy)

2. Minimally invasive spinal surgery including surgery using tubes and endoscopic surgery.

3. Surgery for spinal tumors , intra-dural tumors , Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC), spinal blood vessel malformations.

4. Surgery for spinal infection, osteoporosis, spine fractures

5. Injections and facet denervation for spinal pain.

He also performs Endoscopic Anterior skull base procedures for pathologies such as CSF leak, Chordomas, chondrosarcomas amongst others with the ENT surgeons

He has a specialist interest in Cervical deformity correction, Metabolic spinal Conditions such as MPS & XLH, Tarlov cysts , craniovertebral junction pathology , Syringomyelia , superficial siderosis , spinal cord tumors and vascular malformations and Minimally invasive spinal surgery.

Having graduated from Medical school with numerous distinctions and medals, he completed his Neurosurgical training in the Yorkshire Deanery . During his training, he performed over 1500 Neurosurgical procedures including surgery for Brain Tumors, Brain haemorrhage / Aneurysm clippings , Complex spinal surgery / instrumentation and Open / Endoscopic Skull base surgery.

He then chose to take up the prestigious Sir Victor Horsley Spinal Fellowship at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery , Queen square & The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore , a joint Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic spinal fellowship and this places him with the unique advantage of having expertise across the entire spectrum of Spinal surgery: Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic

He did a further 4 month fellow position at Queen square performing Endoscopic anterior Skull base surgeries and Complex Spinal tumor surgery.

He was chosen competitively for the presitgious British assocIation of Spinal Surgeons' Travelling fellowship and also awarded the Best presentation prize at the 2015 British Association of Spinal Surgeons' meeting in Bath

Mr Sayal has presented extensively in National and international Neurosurgical meetings / conferences and collaborated in over 60 scientific abstracts.

He has a keen interest in teaching and has trained Senior Spinal fellows who have gone on to become Spinal surgery consultants in other hospitals. He is the lead for Junior Dr Education.

He has been invited to deliver Neurosurgical lectures to a wide range of specialities including Neurosurgeons / Orthopaedic spinal surgeons, Musculo-skeletal Physiotherapists, Rheumatologists, Emergency Medicine, Nursing Professionals , UCL Medical students.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Spinal decompression / Microdiscectomy
• Surgery For Sciatica
• Tubular decompression
• Spinal Fusion
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
• Spinal tumor surgery
• Anterior Lumbar interbody fusion
• TLIF / Posterior Lumbar fusion
• Lateral Lumbar fusion / XLIF
• Thoracic fusion
• Posterior cervical fusion
• Spinal injections
• Cervical Disc replacement
• Facet denervation
• Cervical corpectomy
• Thoracic discectomy
• Intradural tumor surgery
• Spinal deformity correction surgery
• Tarlov cyst
• Kyphoplasty / Vertebroplasty
• Spinal fracture fixation
• Meningioma / schwannoma / neurofibroma removal
• Neuro-Oncology
• Sciatica
• Spinal tumours
• Spine Fractures And Trauma
• Spinal Deformity
• Spinal degeneration, spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Intradural spinal tumors
• Osteoporosis
• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Spinal injections
• Endoscopic Skull base surgery

Professor David Choi is a Consultant Neurosurgeon in London, UK.

Private practice at The Wellington Hospital and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square London.

NHS practice at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.

Professor of Neurosurgery, University College London.

Prof Choi graduated from Emmanuel College in 1989 with a first class BA degree in Medical Sciences. Mr Choi then went on to study clinical medicine in Edinburgh (MBChB).  Following this, he then completed his general surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. and underwent specialist neurosurgical training at the Glasgow Institute of Neurological Sciences, He obtained a PhD in neurodegeneration, and completed specialist training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Mr David Choi has published numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and was awarded the Hallett Prize medal from the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

• Simple neck and back conditions
• Back pain, non-surgical management
• Back and leg pain, surgical management
• Spinal disc surgery
• Endoscopic surgery
• Microsurgery
• Minimally invasive pedicle screws
• Open spinal instrumentation
• Craniocervical junction surgery
• C1-2 surgery
• Neuronavigation

• Lumbar disc disease
• Sciatica
• Disc prolapse
• Back and leg pain
• Cervical disc disease
• Cervical fusion
• Artificial disc replacement
• Neck pain
• Cervical radiculopathy
• Myelopathy
• Spinal cord compression
• Nerve root compression
• Spinal tumours
• Metastatic disease
• Schwannomas
• Meningiomas
• Ependymomas
• Spine and Clivus Chordomas
• Sarcomas
• Chiari malformation
• Spinal Injury
• Brachial plexus injury

Mr Peter Bullock is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based in London, UK. Within the field of Neurosurgery, Mr Bullock undertakes mainly intracranial surgery.

Upon attaining his medical qualification, Mr Bullock undertook postgraduate neurosurgical training in London and Oxford before starting work in Nottingham alongside Nobel laureate Peter Mansfield. Together they conducted some of the first dynamic MRI studies of brain tumours in the world. Following this innovative work and research, Mr Bullock was appointed a Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital before travelling to North America to visit leading centres such as Toronto and Chicago. There he trained in minimally invasive techniques in neurosurgery which reduce discomfort for patients and shortens hospital stay.

Throughout his career, Mr Bullock has performed over 5000 neurosurgical operations and is trained in both GammaKnife and CyberKnife in addition to the Brainlab neuronavigation system. He specialises in intracranial operations for brain and pituitary tumours as well microvascular surgery for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. Mr Bullock has written on a range of specialist subjects in peer-reviewed journals. He has contributed to a large study on clipping and coiling aneurysms published in The Lancet in 2004 and also published chapters in six textbooks.

He is an Honorary Consultant to Guy's and the Maudsley Hospital. He has a major interest in medical education and has served on the South East Thames Neurosurgical Training Committee. He is a member of the Society of British Neurosurgeons and an international member of the Congress of Neurosurgery, USA. He lectures at international conferences and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians.

Mrs. Anne Mitchener is a neurosurgeon with a strong interest in treating all spinal issues, which includes new and minimally invasive techniques with and without instrumentation. Mrs. Mitchener also offers second opinion consultation.

Specialist areas include leg pain/sciatica, back pain, arm pain/brachalgia, neck pain, disc prolapse/slipped disc, herniation, spinal claudication, canal stenosis, myelopathy.

Qualified in Psychology at University College London in 1979. Mrs. Mitchener later further her studies with a Ph.D. in drug abuse and was awarded in 1983 at the Institute of Psychiatry. Following this she went on to qualify in medicine from Cambridge (Downing College and New Addenbrooke's Hospital) in 1986, later receiving neurosurgical training in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.

Her extensive medical expertise was further recognised when she was added to the principal list as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 2002.

In her clinical practice, Mrs. Mitchener has widespread experience that spans across Europe. She was a Consultant Neurosurgeon in Norway from 2002 to 2006, before later moving to Charing Cross and Kings College Hospital until 2009, when she became fully independent. To this day she continues her work with a large NHS practice based in London.

On a personal level, Mrs. Mitchener is married with two children. Notably, she is a polyglot and is able to speak French, Spanish, and Norwegian. Beyond her medical interests, her personal interests include travel, sport, opera, and ballet.

Mr Jonathan Bull is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon. He performs both simple and complex procedures to treat a variety of brain and spinal disorders.

Mr Bull completed initial surgical training at St Mary's/Imperial College London before his higher surgical training in neurosurgery in the South Thames Programme. He also attained a Doctor of Medicine at University College London.

Mr Bull also undertook two specialist fellowships in Complex Spine Surgery and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2011.

• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Sciatica treatment
• Spinal stenosis treatment
• Arthroplasty
• CT scan
• Discectomy

• Minimally invasive approaches to neck and back pain
• Degenerative spinal disorders
• Complex spine procedures
• Spinal tumours
• Malignant spinal cord compression
• Spinal trauma
• Tuberculosis of the spine

Mr Alireza Shoakazemi is a Consultant Neurosurgeon specialising in Cranial neurosurgery. He has an interest in skull base surgery, brain tumours, pituitary surgery, vestibular schwannoma, trigeminal neuralgia and other cranial procedures. Additionally, he treats patients with back pain, degenerative spine and disc disease. He utilises a multidisciplinary approach to brain tumours at London Independent Hospital to achieve the best results. He is currently working as a substantive consultant neurosurgeon at Queen’s Hospital where he is an active member of the skull base surgery and neurooncology multidisciplinary team. 

He has extensively published in peer review high impact neurosurgical journals.