Mr Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek is a private Consultant Neurosurgeon Surgeon in London specialising in complex spinal surgery.

He holds an NHS Consultant post at Queens Hospital in London where he is the Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery and is an Honorary Consultant at Barts NHS Trust. He has also completed the Sir Hugh Cairns combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical complex spinal fellowship at the Royal London Hospital and in addition to his clinic practice, is the NHS North East London Spinal Research Lead and Lecturer on the Neuroscience and Translational Medicine Master’s Programme at Queen Marys University of London.

Prior to this, Mr Sadek was an academic Walport trainee in Wessex and held the Jason Brice Fellowship in Neurosurgical research during which he spent a year at the Universitätklinikum Bonn, Germany. He was awarded a doctorate (D.Phil. Oxon) in 2005 from the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology unit at the University of Oxford.

Mr Sadek approaches spinal problems from all angles utilising the multidisciplinary approach to achieve the best possible results for his patients. He works very closely with orthopaedic spinal surgeons, pain specialists and physiotherapists and treats all spinal conditions from the craniovertebral junction to the sacrum.

He has a particular interest in acute spinal conditions such as disc prolapse, radicular pain, neck/back pain, sciatica as well as myelopathy and spinal tumours.

He has an academic interest in spinal pathology and an active research portfolio focusing on spinal conditions and enabling technologies. Mr Sadek has published over 40 research studies and numerous book chapters. His research has featured on the front cover of an international journal and has been presented all over the globe. 

Mr Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek was awarded the iWantGreatCare certificate of excellence in 2021, 2022 and 2023 for delivering outstanding care.

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Areas of expertise

• Back and Spine
• Low back pain
• Sciatica
• Neck pain
• Radiculopathy
• Lumbar disc disease
• Cervical disc disease
• Spinal stenosis
• Degenerative disc disease
• Arthritis of the spine
• Cervical arthritis
• Lytic spondylolisthesis
• Degenerative spondylolisthesis
• Myelopathy
• Kyphosis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Compression fracture

Current and recent appointments

• Queens Hospital in London 

Society memberships

He is a member of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons, Society of British Neurological Surgeons, European Association of Neurological Surgeons and the North American Association of Spinal Surgeons.