Mr Alireza Shoakazemi

Mr Shoakazemi is a UK trained consultant neurosurgeon and skull base surgeon. He completed FRCS (Neurosurgery) in 2014. He completed the prestigious Manchester skull base surgery fellowship in addition to fellowship training in the US.  He is specialised in Cranial neurosurgery. He has an interest in skull base surgery, Brain tumours, pituitary surgery, vestibular schwannoma, trigeminal neuralgia and other cranial procedures. Additionally, he treats patients with back pain, degenerative spine and disc disease, hydrocephalus. He utilises a multidisciplinary approach to brain tumours at London Independent Hospital to achieve the best results.  He is currently working as a substantive consultant neurosurgeon at Queen’s Hospital where he is an active member of skull base surgery and neuro oncology multidisciplinary team. He is also appointed as Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and is module lead for Neurosciences. He has extensively published in peer review high impact neurosurgical journals.

Areas of interest Brain tumours; Skull base surgery; Vestibular schwannoma; Meningioma; Pituitary gland tumours; craniopharyngioma; colloid cyst; epidermoid tumour; intraventricular tumours; Trigeminal neuralgia; Spinal Neurosurgery; Lumbar spine disorders; Cervical and lumbar disc surgery; Cervical spondylosis; Brain metastases from other cancers in the body; glioblastoma multiforme; dermoid, epidermoid; pineal gland tumour; brainstem tumours; pilocytic astrocytoma; ependymoma; Endoscopic brain surgery.