Mr Amir Saam Youshani
Mr Amir Saam Youshani is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre, specialising in both neuro-oncology surgery and epilepsy surgery.
Saam completed his undergraduate medical school training and a first-class honours degree in Genetics at the University of Liverpool. He undertook foundation and core surgical training in the North West, gaining experience in ENT and Vascular surgery. Saam then undertook specialist Neurosurgery training in Manchester.
Alongside his clinical training, he has developed a strong academic and research background. He spent three years as a Geoffrey Jefferson Clinical Research Fellow with the University of Manchester and Salford Royal Hospital, completing a PhD in cancer immunology focused on the role of immune cells in gliomas. He subsequently held an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Lectureship at the University of Manchester, researching gliomas, cellular senescence and seizures. His academic work was supported by a Royal College of Surgeons Clinical Research Fellowship and a grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Saam completed two post-training (CCT) surgical fellowships. He undertook a year of specialist Neuro-oncology surgery training at The Walton Centre in Liverpool followed by a year of specialist Epilepsy surgery training in Canada, at Western University/London Health Sciences Centre in London Ontario. He has gained experience in response neurostimulation (RNS) at Yale University in the USA, and in neuro-oncology/academia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, USA.
His specialist training includes a range of advanced techniques in neuro-oncology and epilepsy surgery, including: awake craniotomy, stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), radiofrequency ablation, deep brain stimulation (DBS) for epilepsy, intraoperative neurophysiology and mapping, 5-ALA and ultrasound.
Speciality
- Neurosurgery (Neuro-oncology surgery and Epilepsy surgery)
Qualifications
- MBChB
- BSc (Hons)
- PhD
- DOHNS
- PGCert (Medical Leadership)
- FRCS (Neuro.Surg)
Clinical interests
- Neuro-oncology
- Epilepsy surgery
- Awake craniotomy
- Intra-operative neurophysiology
- SEEG, LITT, RF ablation
- Neuromodulation
- Intra-operative MRI (iMRI)
Research
- SEEG and neurophysiology
- Glioma (low-grade and high-grade)
- Epilepsy and functional anatomy
Membership
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS)
- British Neuro-oncology Society (BNOS)
- Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS)
- Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
- American Epilepsy Society (AES)
- International Epilepsy Surgery Society (IESS)
- American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN)
- Society for Neuro-oncology (SNO)
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