Meet Mr Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek

Mr Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek MBBS BSc(Hons) DPhil(Oxon) FRCS(SN) is a neurosurgeon who specialises in conditions of the spine. He created Spinemathema so that his patients, and anyone else living with a back or neck problem, have a trusted place to learn about their condition at their own pace.

Why Spinemathema

Patients often ask for reliable information they can come back to after a clinic appointment. Spinemathema brings that together in one place: short videos, plain English guides, podcasts and summaries of the research that shapes spinal care. It is written for patients first. It is not a booking site and it is not an advert.

Beyond the clinic

Mr Sadek is an invited speaker at national and international meetings, including the Fortius spine conference. He is also passionate about community education, helping members of the public understand their health, and teaching first aid and what to do in a medical emergency to local Cub Scouts. Away from work he loves spending time with his family, and you will find him at parkrun, playing padel, kitesurfing or enjoying a good coffee.

Current roles

• Clinical Lead for the Department of Neurosurgery, Queens Hospital, Romford (Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust)
• Spinal Lead for the NHS England North East London and Essex Spinal Network
• Responsible Officer, Fortius Clinic London

He is also completing an Executive MBA at Arden University.

GMC registration number: 6155997 (opens the medical register). Independent information about his private practice, including patient feedback and fees, is published by the Private Healthcare Information Network on his PHIN profile.

Training

Mr Sadek combined his surgical training with research throughout his career.

• DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) in Clinical Medicine and Neuroscience, University of Oxford. Thesis: Microcircuits of the Globus Pallidus
• Intercalated BSc (Bachelor of Science), University College London
• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery), St George’s Hospital Medical School, London
• MRCS (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
• Neurosurgical training in Wessex as an academic trainee, including a Walport Academic Fellowship
• FRCS(SN) (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgical Neurology)
• Jason Brice Academic Fellowship at Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany, with Professor Steinhäuser
• Sir Hugh Cairns Spine Fellowship at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

Research

Mr Sadek has more than 50 publications listed on PubMed, dating from 2007, in journals including Neurosurgery, the Journal of Neurosurgery, the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, the European Spine Journal, the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and the Journal of Neuroscience. His work covers spinal surgery (cauda equina syndrome, foot drop, spinal fractures, spinal tumours and robotic assisted spinal surgery), large UK multicentre studies of chronic subdural haematoma, and laboratory neuroscience from his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He was also lead author of a commentary in The Lancet on the long-term results of epilepsy surgery (2011).

He was the senior author of the 2025 individual patient data meta-analysis on recovery from foot drop, which you can read about in plain English in our foot drop article.

Selected recent spine papers

• Robotic-assisted spinal instrumentation from C1 to S1: experience of a UK neurosurgical tertiary referral centre. J Clin Med 2026
• The impact of prolapse to canal ratio (PCR) in cauda equina syndrome outcomes and operative management. Eur Spine J 2026
• Prognostic factors and surgical outcomes of foot drop secondary to lumbar degenerative disease: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. Eur Spine J 2025
• Surgical outcomes of unilateral painful foot drop secondary to lumbar disc herniation: a multicenter retrospective study. J Neurosurg Spine 2025
• Surgical management and outcomes of ankylosing spondylitis fractures in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosurg Rev 2025
• Systematic review comparing open versus minimally invasive surgical management of intradural extramedullary tumours. J Clin Med 2025

What patients say

Mr Sadek has received the iWantGreatCare Certificate of Excellence for five consecutive years, most recently in 2025, and the Doctify Outstanding Patient Experience award for 2026. Patients have left more than 600 reviews about their care across Top Doctors, iWantGreatCare, Doctify and Google, with an average rating of five stars.

Appointments

Spinemathema is for education and does not take bookings. If you would like to see Mr Sadek, you will find his clinic details on his practice website.

The content on this website is general information and does not replace a personal consultation. Please speak to your GP or specialist about your own situation.