Essam Elgamal MBBCh, MS, FRCSEd, FRCS (SN)

Dr. Essam Elgamal is a Senior Consultant Neuro Surgeon with broad experience in adult and pediatric brain and spinal cord surgery over 35 years. He is a UK intercollegiate board-certified in Neurosurgery. He is trained in Bristol and Oxford in the UK and Alexandria, Egypt. He worked in a leading post at Oxford University Hospital, King Saud University Medical City, and was the Chairman of the Neurosurgery unit at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City – Abu Dhabi, where he established the first Pediatric Neurosurgery unit in the UAE.

He specializes in navigation-guided brain tumor surgery for adults and children, complex hydrocephalus and neuro-endoscopy, Spina bifida, and spinal cord tumors. He is an expert in treating children with hydrocephalus, neural tube defects, Craniosynostosis, intrathecal drug delivery pump implantation and regular care. He performs surgery for Chiari malformation, Syringomyelia, spinal lipoma, and spinal cord tethering. He counsels parents in the fetal medicine clinic for brain and spinal cord anomalies.