Best Neurosurgeons in Harrow, UK

Mr Ahmed Toma is a Consultant Neurosurgeon in London, UK. He currently works at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. A well as this Mr Ahmed Toma is the Senior Lecturer at UCL Institute of Neurology. 

Mr Toma graduated from the University of Baghdad in 1997. Following this, he then continued to study at Royal College of Surgeons until 2011. Having then chose to specialize in Neurology he also completed a postgraduate degree in neurosciences/hydrocephalus in 2012 at St George's University in London. 

• Vascular neurosurgery
• Back surgery (spinal surgery)  
• Back pain investigations (discography)

• Hydrocephalus
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
• Chiari Malformation
• Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics disturbances
• Degenerative spine
• Lumbar spine disorders 
• Neck pain 
• Pain management 

Mr Neil Dorward is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based in London. He has a special interest in neuro-oncology and spinal surgery. Mr Dorward treats a number of conditions including neck and back pain, spinal deformities and brain tumours. He is passionate about the use of minimally invasive techniques in brain and spinal surgery.

Mr Dorward completed his undergraduate training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London and he went on to train in London. He specialised in Neurosurgery and spent 2 years undertaking a research degree focusing on the technology involved in intra-operate image-guidance for neurosurgery.

Mr Dorward is a Consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London and Clinical Lead for Endoscopic Neurosurgery.

Mr Dorward is interested in medical education and he is heavily involved in providing training in endoscopy to surgeons. He is also a faculty member on numerous neurosurgery training courses at the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr Dorward has a passion for research and he directs a clinical research programme with two full-time research fellows. 

• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Surgery for sciatica
• Cervical disc replacement
• Spinal decompressions
• Spinal fixation
• Spinal fusion
• Cervical surgery
• Endoscopy
• Brain surgery
• Skull base surgery
• Craniotomy
• Stereotactic biopsy
• Pituitary surgery

• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Spinal tumours
• Neurooncology
• Brain Tumours
• Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Sciatica
• Scoliosis

James Allibone was appointed as a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2002. He was the Lead Spinal Surgeon at the Hospital. In 2007 he moved his NHS practice to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). He is currently the Lead Spinal Surgeon at NHNN.

Mr Allibone graduated from The London Hospital College in 1989 and undertook general surgical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He did his neurosurgery training in North London at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

He has a special interest in degenerative disease of the lumbar, thoracic, cervical spine and spinal tumours. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the conservative and surgical management of these cases.

Mr Allibone is a member of the National Clinical Reference Group for Spinal Services and Lead Clinician of the Complex Spinal Group at the NHNN. He has led the North London Metastatic Spinal Tumour Group, and he sat on the executive council of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons. Mr Allibone presents at various national and international meetings.

It is important that HCA is transparent about our relationship with those doctors who provide us with clinical guidance on delivering the best possible care to patients and operating our hospitals safely and efficiently. We set out here some of the ways in which we work together and the amount we pay this doctor for such services.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Discography
• Vertebroplasty
• Management of neck and lower back pain
• Management brachialgia and sciatica
• Spinal injections
• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Disc replacement
• Spinal fusion
• Treatment for syringomyelia
• Degenerative disc disease
• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Sciatica
• Spinal tumours
• Artificial discs

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 Sanjeev Bassi, born in London and educated at Ilford County Grammar School for Boys and Victoria University of Manchester, is a consultant adult and paediatric neurosurgeon who treats patients with brain and spinal problems.

After gaining the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Bassi trained in neurosurgery in Nottingham and obtained his fellowship at the Necker Hospital in Paris and the Montefiore Hospital in New York. He then worked as a paediatric neurosurgical fellow at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and then as a consultant in adult and paediatric neurosurgery at King's College Hospital and the Evelina Children’ Hospital, St Thomas Hospital.

He has a full adult and paediatric practice for both cranial and spinal surgery. He provides treatment for sciatica, back pain, neck pain, brain tumours, hydrocephalus, brain haemorrhage, spinal tumours, cerebral palsy, implantation of skeletal muscle relaxant pumps, neuroendoscopy. He also treats premature children and is involved in antenatal diagnosis and counselling of parents of babies with spinal and brain problems which have been diagnosed by foetal MRI before birth.

He is one of the two leading paediatric neurosurgeons at Kings and performs 25%-30% of all paediatric neurosurgical operations occurring in the South of England. He also specialises in general neurosurgery for adults and paediatric diseases which progress into adulthood. He furthermore deals with degenerative spinal problems, including brachalgia, sciatica, spinal cord tumours and all brain tumours.

Having trained extensively in the applications of neuro-endoscopy in neurosurgery, he teaches and lectures internationally on third ventriculostomy, endoscopic treatment of craniopharingiomas and endoscopic applications in pineal tumours. In addition to this, he runs a course on hydrocephalus and endoscopy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

It is important that HCA is transparent about our relationship with those doctors who provide us with clinical guidance on delivering the best possible care to patients and operating our hospitals safely and efficiently. We set out here some of the ways in which we work together and the amount we pay this doctor for such services.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Shunts
• Cerebellar tonsillectomy 
• Foraminotomy
• Radio frequency ablation 
• Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
• Cervical disc replacement

• Adult and Paediatric Neurosurgery
• Hydrocephalus
• Endoscopy
• Third ventriculostomy
• Spina bifida
• Paediatric and adult brain tumours
• Cerebral palsy and intrathecal skeletal muscle relaxant pumps (including Baclofen)
• Antenatal counselling
• Brain haemorrhage
• Prematurity
• Spinal tumours
• Sciatica
• Brachalgia
• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Carpal tunnel
• Syringomyelia
• Chiari malformation
• Craniosynostosis 
• Flat head symdrome
• Spinal dysraphism
• Tarlov cysts
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Headaches
• Posterior fossa tumour
• Dermal sinus
• Selective dorsal rhizotomy
• Colloid cyst

Professor Ashkan is a leading neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, London and one of the handful of neurosurgeons in the UK to be awarded a Professorship. Professor Ashkan underwent dual postgraduate training in medicine and surgery, obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1997 and the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Glasgow (FRCS) in 1998. Thereafter, he underwent higher specialist training in general neurosurgery in London, being awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Neurosurgery (FRCS SN) in 2002. His subspecialist training in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery included a Fellowship in France with Professor Benabid, generally considered as the founder of modern deep brain stimulation surgery, which led to a MD degree in 2006. He was appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital in January 2007 and subsequently was promoted to the position of Professor.

In addition to his expertise in degenerative spine disease, which includes the management of back and neck pain, arm pain and sciatica together with peripheral nerve disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, Professor Ashkan’s main interests are neuromodulation surgery and brain tumours. This includes deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation and occipital nerve stimulation for movement disorders, pain, headaches and image guided minimally invasive and stereotactic surgery for brain tumours including awake craniotomies and brain mapping.  He is also one of the few UK surgeons trained in Gamma and Cyberknife radiosurgery. 

He is the UK Lead for Genomics England programme for brain tumour, President of the British Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Chairman of the Neurosurgery Section of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, King’s Lead for Neuro-Oncology, Chair of King’s Neuroscience Clinical Trial Unit and Deputy Lead for King’s Neuroscience Research Advisory Committee. 

Professor Ashkan has published over 400 peer review papers, abstracts and book chapters and is an Associate Editor or reviewer for several journals.

In his spare time Professor Ashkan has completed a degree and diploma in music and enjoys playing the piano. 

Visualase, Deep Brain Stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Occipital Nerve Stimulation, DCVax Immunotherapy, Awake Craniotomy, Surgery for Brain Tumours, Visualase, Gamma-knife and Cyberknife Radiosurgery, Lumbar and Cervical Laminectomy and Discectomy.

Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor, Brain Tumours, Spine Disease, Back Pain, Sciatica.

In view of the coronavirus infections and travel restriction, Mr. Yeh offers telephone consults at mutually convenient time. Please either text 07759 152113 or email brain.spine.care@gmail.com to book your telephone consults. If you have private health insurance, please check with your health insurer that your policy covers telephone consults. Most health insurers do.

Mr. John Yeh is an independent Consultant Neurosurgeon with specialisms in Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery. He studied at the University of Cambridge and undertook his training in neurosurgery and his spinal fellowship in the UK. He worked as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon at the Queen Mary University of London, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals from 2003 to 2013. While in this role Mr Yeh was the Lead Consultant for complex spinal surgery and for two years he was the Head of the Neurosurgery department.

Mr. Yeh has research interests including spinal implants, spinal biomechanics and minimally invasive spinal surgery. He has a doctorate in spinal biomechanics, has several publications and has presented at poster conferences worldwide.

Please be aware the contact telephone number 07759 152113 will not be answered - please text only and a member of the team will respond.

• Disc laser Procedures
• Vertebroplasty
• Interspinous Device Surgery
• Artificial Disc Replacement
• Cervical (neck) surgery
• Complex Revision Spinal Surgery
• Discectomy
• Epidural injection
• Facet Joint Injection
• Facet Joint Replacement Kyphoplasty
• Laminectomy
• Lumbar back surgery
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Nerve entrapment
• Spinal degeneration
• Spinal injections
• Spinal disc surgery (including disc replacement) kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for osteoporosis
• Keyhole spinal surgery
• Minimally invasive spinal surgery
• Spinal fusion surgery
• Spinal microsurgery
• Spinal neurosurgery
• Cranial surgery

Miss Mary Murphy is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, offering a full range of neurosurgical procedures and gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery.

Mary offers expertise on the major areas of Neurosurgery as well as specialist knowledge in neurological tumours, brain vasculature, and awake procedures. She also offers Cyberknife treatment and a full range of state-of-the-art procedures and operations.

In addition to her medical work, Mary has contributed to several publications and taught at some of the country's most prestigious academies.

• Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery

• Neurological tumours
• Brain vasculature

Mr Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based in London. He is the Medical Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at the Wellington Hospital.

Mr Sabin completed his undergraduate training at Dundee University, Scotland and his post-graduate neurosurgical training was split between the department of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh and the National Hospital, Queen Square in London . He became a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Edinburgh and in London in 1986 and was appointed to his first post as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 1992 at Barts Hospital, London. Mr Sabin has completed additional specialist training in Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery in Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Marseille and Cyber Knife in California.

Mr Sabin has a number of special interests including neuro-oncology, skull base surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, cervical spine surgery and minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery.

Mr Sabin has a proven track record in surgical innovation and post-graduation surgical education. His research interests include the development of endoscopic skull base surgery in the UK and monitoring techniques to aid with hearing preservation during vestibular schwannoma surgery. Mr Sabin has published research in numerous peer-reviewed journals and he has also produced book chapters for trainee neurosurgeons. Additionally, Mr Sabin was the neurosurgical tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons in England for 10 years, a Member of the Court of Examiners and a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for neurosurgery.

Consultations can be virtual or face to face at the Platinum Medical Centre.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
• Skull Base Surgery
• Pituitary surgery
• Cervical spine surgery
• Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery
• Neuro-oncology
• Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
• Skull Base Surgery
• Acoustic neuroma
• Meningioma
• Pituitary surgery
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Cervical spine surgery
• Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery

Mr Hyam is a Consultant Craniofacial, Brain & Comprehensive Spinal Neurosurgeon at the world-renowned National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

He is a neurosurgeon to the UCLH Adult Craniofacial multidisciplinary service with specialists in maxillofacial, plastics and ENT surgery, whereby head shape/deformity is reconstructed after surgery, injury or in syndromic conditions.

His specialist expertise includes:

* Craniofacial reconstruction and cranioplastic surgery

* Tumours such as meningioma

* Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for tumours, trigeminal neuralgia and glossopharyngeal neuralgia

* Treatment of spinal stenosis and disc prolapse within the neck and lower spine, back pain and sciatica

* Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, tremor, facial pain and dystonia

Mr Hyam has received numerous national and international prizes and honours. including America’s Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Resident Prize for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery which was awarded in Washington, DC.

He was awarded a PhD from Oxford University in Neurosurgery, and a Diploma in Microscopic Neurosurgery from The Yasargil Neurosurgery Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

He is an invited specialist advisor to NICE on behalf of the British Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, providing expert guidance on treatments across the country for conditions such as headache, facial pain, movement disorders, and spinal pain.

Mr Hyam was awarded the prestigious Arris & Gale Lectureship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The lectureship was established in the year 1646 and is still awarded in stiff competition to surgeons at the height of their career. Previous recipients include Nobel Laureate Sir Alexander Fleming.

Mr Hyam’s neurosurgery research has been published in prestigious international journals including The Lancet, Nature Reviews Neurology, and The Lancet Neurology.