Dr. Ahmed El Sawy

Dr. Ahmed El Sawy is a consultant neurosurgeon at Town Hospital in the Fifth Settlement, New Cairo. His work covers neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery and movement disorders (Parkinson's disease, tremor and rigidity).

He holds an MBBS (2008) and an MSc (2012) and MD (2019) in neurosurgery, all from Ain Shams University, where he is a lecturer of neurosurgery. He has worked as a consultant neurosurgeon since 2019.

After more than a decade of general neurosurgical training at Ain Shams University, he completed clinical fellowships in Canada: at the University of Toronto in neuro-oncology and skull base surgery, in functional neurosurgery, and in epilepsy surgery, and at Western University in functional neurosurgery.

His experience covers cranial and spinal neurosurgery (brain and spinal tumours, degenerative and complex spine surgery, cerebrovascular disease, trauma, paediatric neurosurgery and endoscopic skull base surgery) as well as epilepsy and functional neurosurgery, including stereo-EEG (SEEG), resective and disconnective epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation (DBS), laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), awake craniotomy, vagus nerve stimulation and microvascular decompression.

He has published in peer-reviewed journals on skull base surgery and neuromodulation. Learn more about epilepsy surgery and SEEG at Town Hospital.