Mr Drahoslav Sokol

Dr Drahoslav Sokol is a consultant neurosurgeon based in Edinburgh and Stirling. He has over 20 years of medical experience and over 10 years of specialist experience as a consultant in neurosurgery.

He currently practices as a consultant neurosurgeon at the following private hospitals:

• Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Edinburgh EH12 6UD
• BMI Kings Park Hospital, Stirling FK7 9JH

He is also a member of the following professional organisations:

• Society of British Neurological Surgeons
• British Association of Spinal Surgeons
• British Paediatric Neurosurgical Group

In his current positions, he typically treats patients with cervical and lumbar disc herniation and spinal stenosis, spine fusion, epilepsy and brain injury. He has specialist interests in cerebral bypass surgery, moyamoya, vascular neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, paediatric neurosurgery and brain tumour surgery. He has been appointed to current post of consultant Neurosurgeon in NHS Lothian in 2013. Dr Sokol completed his medical degree in 2001 at the University P.J. Safarik Kosice in the Slovak Republic. He then became fellowship trained in Functional and Epilepsy Neurosurgery in 2011 at Swedish Medical Center, USA and fellowship trained in Paediatric Neurosurgery in 2012 at Cleveland Clinic, USA. He has also been a Prague Board Certified Neurosurgeon since 2009.

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