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BRAIN

MR ANDREW MCEVOY MD, FCRS

USING NEW SURGICAL APPROACHES TO FACE EPILEPSY

AUTHOR
SOFIA ALMEIDA SANTOS

Mr Andrew McEvoy is a world-leading diction and preservation of function during both nationally and internationally, holding
Consultant Neurosurgeon at The National neurosurgical procedures associated with a number of research grants, funding ongo-
Hospital for Neurology (NHNN) and Neu- large resections, and the reorganisation of ing projects at the Institute of Neurology in
rosurgery and Institute of Neurology (ION) brain function around brain tumours. This Queen Square. He has also several ongoing
in London. multidisciplinary approach integrates facil- research studies concerning, for example,
Dr. McEvoy graduated from the Univer- ities such as 3T MRI, FMRI for language and imaging of the optic radiation to prevent
sity of London and is a fellow of the Royal motor function, DTI, MEG, neurophysiology visual field defects associated with tempo-
College of Surgeons in surgical neurology. In and neuropsychology. ral lobe surgeries
addition, he’s also an Honorary Consultant Dr. McEvoy is widely published in lead-
Neurosurgeon to Great Ormond Street Hos- ing peer-reviewed journals and presented
pital for Children, with practicing privileges
at The Wellington Hospital, The Princess
Grace Hospital and The Cromwell Hospital.
His prime work focuses on surgical
therapies for the management of epilep-
sy, having the largest adult epilepsy sur-
gical practice in the UK. He also leads the
surgical arm of the Department of Clinical
and Experimental Epilepsy, the most im-
portant and preeminent epilepsy research
group in Europe.
As a result of this expertise, he now
holds, most likely, the largest number of
‘awake’ craniotomies presently in the UK,
recurring to Gamma Knife and Cyberknife
techniques. This enables the largest possi-
ble resection of brain tumours while mini-
mising neurological deficit.
Besides his expertise in brain tumours,
his busy general neurosurgical practice en-
compasses spinal surgery, trigeminal neu-
ralgia, hydrocephalus, head injury and pe-
ripheral nerve surgery.
Being recognized for his work, he is list-
ed in The Times 2010 top UK doctors for his
epilepsy and brain tumour surgery.
Mr Andrew McEvoy’s specialist neu-
rooncology service focus mostly in the pre-

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