Amethyst are delighted to announce it will be hosting an exciting Clinical Engagement Programme during Arab Health. The Programme includes:

a focus on developments in the delivery of Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery; show-casing new techniques in optimising Stereotactic Radio-surgical treatment of Neuro-Vascular disease using the BrainLabs Elements Treatment System

• Amethyst has invited BrainLabs to demonstrate how its Elements “Angiography Contouring” and “Smart Brush” modules optimises diagnostic angiograms for treatment planning, thereby avoiding the requirement to re-catheterise, improving the patient pathway and experience during radio-surgical planning and treatment. This session will be led by Miss Mary Murphy, bio and headshot attached
• In addition, Mr Ramez Ibrahim, Consultant Neurosurgeon, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, one of the highest volume Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery (Gamma Knife) Centres in the world treating almost +1300 patients a year, will be hosting a discussion on how the pathology and treatment of Metastatic disease has changed dramatically post Covid. Bios and headshot attached
• Amethyst is delighted to announce our third Clinical Engagement Event during Arab Health will be hosted in collaboration with the Gulf International Cancer Centre (GICC), Abu Dhabi
• Amethyst and GICC have invited Professor Karol Sikora, former Director of the World Health Organisations Cancer Programme, to chair an informal discussion on the emerging specialty of Cancer Genomics and how exciting new developments in genetic  analysis and molecular profiling can be used to influence new therapeutic interventions and first line treatment for a wide range of tumours

Speakers: Mary Murphy, Consultant Neurosurgeon, lead for neurovascular neurosurgery, and Clinical Director at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in London (NHNN)

Mary has been a consultant neurosurgeon since 2006. Her early registrar training was in Glasgow as an NTN. She then moved to London to take up the position of McKissock Lecturer at Atkinson Morley's Hospital when it was moving to St George's Hospital. During that time she completed her MD on proton spectroscopy of brain tumours.

After her research she became an NTN on the South Thames rotation. Her first consultant appointment was at Addenbrookes Hospital where she worked for a year prior to starting a substantive appointment at the Royal Free Hospital. With her colleagues, she moved to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2012 when the Royal Free neurosurgical unit closed.

She is a general neurosurgeon with special interest in vascular neurosurgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (gamma knife and cyberknife). She is the lead for vascular neurosurgery and the clinical director of neurosurgery at NHNN.

Mary leads the NHNN virtual AVM MDT inviting any external referrers to join the meeting. She leads “Growing”, an international research group of female neurosurgeons. Her research interests include global neurosurgery, training and equality and diversity.

Mr Ramez Ibrahim, Consultant Neurosurgeon, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield; Karol Sikora, former Director of the World Health Organisations Cancer Programme

Mr Ramez Ibrahim is a consultant neurosurgeon who specialises in Gamma Knife radiosurgery with special interest in neuro oncology and skull base surgery. He currently practises at the Thornbury Radiosurgery Centre, which is located within the Sheffield-based BMI Thornbury Hospital. 

Mr Ibrahim, who qualified in 1995 after successfully completing an MBBS in medicine at Cairo University, impressively holds three neurosurgical board certificates: the Royal College of Surgeons Fellowship, the European Board of Neurosurgery, as well as the Egyptian Doctorate in Neurosurgery. After obtaining his MBBS, Mr Ibrahim would then go on to undertake specialist, intensive neurosurgical training. He was then appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon at the neurosugical department in Cairo University in 2004, the same year in which he obtained an MD in neurosurgery from said university. 

Mr Ibrahim relocated to the UK in 2010 and immediately opted to undertake further fellowships, including a skull base surgery fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and a GammaKnife radiosurgery fellowship, which he completed in Sheffield between the years 2012 and 2013. He gained valuable and extensive experience in relation to every possible aspect related to spinal disease, thanks, at large, to his complex spinal surgery training which was completed in 2013 at the globally renowned Cardiff and Vale Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery and Trauma Unit. 

Location: ABHI Stand, Hall 2 (H2.E30)