Mr Ahmed Toma

Mr Ahmed Toma is a consultant neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen Square, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust.

Having graduated from medical school with distinction, he went on to pursue clinical neurosurgical training mostly at Queen Square where he was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon in December 2014. He did two years research fellowship studying normal pressure hydrocephalus at Queen Square and was awarded an MD (Res.) postgraduate degree from St George’s University of London in adult hydrocephalus in 2012.

Having completed one year of interventional neuroradiology fellowship at the National hospital at Queen Square, he is one of the few vascular neurosurgeons in the UK who are dual trained both in endovascular and open surgical neurovascular techniques.

His clinical practice includes:
Adult hydrocephalus: Normal pressure hydrocephalus, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, chiari malformation, shunt dependent hydrocephalus, colloid cyst, neuro-endoscopy and shunt surgeries.

Neurovascular surgery: Clipping of cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation surgery, spinal and cranial dural arteriovenous fistulae surgery, intracerebral haemorrhage and stroke.

Degenerative spinal conditions: back pain, sciatica / leg pain, neck pain, arm pain, radiculopathy, and myelopathy

Neuromodulation: occipital nerve stimulation

Memberships

• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Society of British Neurological surgeons
• International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders (Board of directors’ member)
• UK CSF advisory group
• British neurovascular group (BNVG) and UK SAH audit steering group
• UK CSF leak association scientific advisory group
• Honorary associate professor in the department of brain repair and rehabilitation at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.