Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek

MBBS BSc(Hons) DPhil(Oxon) FRCS(SN)

Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, London

I am a spinal neurosurgeon and clinical academic. I lead a neurosurgical department and a regional spinal network, and my work combines complex spinal surgery, service development and clinical outcomes research.

Current roles

Clinical Lead, Department of Neurosurgery
Queen’s Hospital, Romford · Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Spinal Lead
NHS England North East London and Essex Spinal Network

Responsible Officer
Fortius Clinic, London

Executive MBA (in progress)
Arden University

Leadership and service development

As Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery at Queen’s Hospital, I have focused on access, training and culture. In my view, good patient care comes through your staff, not around them.

Waiting times
Referral-to-treatment performance rose to 75.1%, up nearly 27 percentage points in two years and the service’s best since before the pandemic. Patients waiting over 52 weeks fell from almost 150 to 6, and the waiting list is down by more than 1,600.
June 2026

Scale
In 2025 the department performed more than 1,700 operations (about 150 elective and 90 emergency cases a month), held about 190,000 outpatient appointments and published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers.

Workforce and training
A 12-month complex spine fellowship with an international intake, fellows trained in skull base, neuro-oncology and spinal surgery, and a new Educational Lead and Simulation and Courses Lead.

Technology and new services
Robotic and navigation-guided spinal surgery, and day-case endoscopic spinal surgery that sends patients home the same day.

Regional network
Clinical Lead for the NHS England North East London and Essex Spinal Network since 2025. I chair the network’s annual meeting and take part in the regional Essex Spinal MDT.

Department milestones
Designated a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence for brain tumour care (2026), and a £6.7 million ARIA-funded neurotechnology research programme, led by colleagues.

Independent sector
At Fortius Clinic, helped build an integrated spinal unit with specialist nursing and theatre leads, clear governance and a formal Spinal MDT.

Executive MBA, Arden University (two thirds complete). Clinical governance and revalidation as Responsible Officer, Fortius Clinic.

Training and qualifications

Sir Hugh Cairns Spine Fellowship
Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

FRCS(SN), Surgical Neurology
Royal College of Surgeons

Jason Brice Academic Fellowship
Universitätsklinikum Bonn, with Professor Steinhäuser

Academic neurosurgical training, Wessex
Including a Walport Academic Fellowship

DPhil, Clinical Medicine and Neuroscience
University of Oxford · Microcircuits of the Globus Pallidus

MRCS
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

MBBS
St George’s Hospital Medical School, London

BSc (Hons), intercalated
University College London

GMC 6155997

Selected publications

More than 50 papers since 2007 covering spinal surgery outcomes, cauda equina syndrome, foot drop, robotic-assisted instrumentation, chronic subdural haematoma, and the basal ganglia neuroscience of my DPhil.

Robotic-assisted spinal instrumentation from C1 to S1: experience of a UK neurosurgical tertiary referral centre.
J Clin Med, 2026

The impact of prolapse to canal ratio (PCR) in cauda equina syndrome outcomes and operative management.
Eur Spine J, 2026

Prognostic factors and surgical outcomes of foot drop secondary to lumbar degenerative disease: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.
Eur Spine J, 2025 · senior author

Surgical outcomes of unilateral painful foot drop secondary to lumbar disc herniation: a multicenter retrospective study.
J Neurosurg Spine, 2025

Surgical management and outcomes of ankylosing spondylitis fractures in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Neurosurg Rev, 2025

Chopping and changing: long-term results of epilepsy surgery.
The Lancet, 2011 · lead author

All publications on PubMed →

Speaking and teaching

Invited lecture
Alexandria Neurosurgery Conference, Egypt, 2026

Master of ceremonies and speaker: current evidence in spinal surgery; sports spine injuries
Fortius Spine Summit, London, 2026

Speaker
Abu Dhabi Neuroscience Forum, 2025

Speaker
21st Vietnam Neurosurgery Conference, 2022

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