Prof. Naveed Ashraf

Neurosurgery

Dr. Naveed Ashraf

Naveed Ashraf is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern neurosurgery in Pakistan and is credited nationally for his contributions to the development and growth of the speciality. He is currently a Professor of Neurosurgery at the National Hospital & Medical Centre, Lahore, where he established the Department of Neurosurgery,which is one of the leading departments in the private sector nationally.He was the Professor of Neurosurgery at the Punjab Institute of Neurosciences, Sheikh Zayd Medical College RahimYaar Khan, and AllamaIqbal Medical College/Jinnah Hospital Lahore. DrAshraf led these and under his aegis, these centres became nationally recognised successful centres for comprehensive neurosurgical services

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Doctor Skill

Dr Ashraf is the Associate Editor in Chief for Trauma of Surgical Neurology International- a leading journal of neurosurgery. He is chair of the speciality advisory committee in neurosurgery at the University of Health Sciences. Throughout his career, he has educated a large number of the Pakistani neurosurgical workforce, many of whom assumed leadership positions in the public and private sectors

Specialized Expert

He has been a practising neurosurgeon for over 30 years and has subspecialty expertise in cerebrovascular and trauma neurosurgery. He had performed the country’s first extra-intra cranial bypass surgery in 1995 and his department receive referrals both nationally and from abroad for complex aneurysms, arterio-venous malformations, Moya-Moya disease, and carotid endarterectomies.He developed a closed-model neurocritical care unit, the first of its kind, where neurosurgeons are trained in all aspects of invasive ventilation and bronchoscopies for TBI patients.

Experience of Member

The neurosurgery department at Jinnah Hospital Lahore, which he established, provides state-of-the-art neurosurgical care, free of cost and is at the forefront of neurosurgical service. It is one of the few departments in Asia performing intraoperative CT-guided neurosurgery, Brain Microdialysis, regular ICP and brain parenchymal tissue and oxygen monitoring in regular clinical practice.

Additional expertise is offered in all general paediatric neurosurgery with a high volume of experience in spina-bifida/spinal-dysraphism, craniosynostosis, and Chiari malformation, as well as adolescent craniofacial reconstruction for traumatic, iatrogenic, and congenital skull defects. For this, there is a strong partnership with plastic surgery colleagues who are leaders for such work in Pakistan. He also has one of the largest practices of trigeminal neuralgia in the country, being a high-volume surgeon for microvascular decompression, as well as radio-frequency thermal rhizotomy

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