Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Wagdy Mohammed Al-Kadasi – Pediatric Neurosurgery Specialist, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

Current Position

Pediatric Neurosurgery Specialist
Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
At Sidra Medicine since February 2020

Board Certifications & Fellowships

  • Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship – Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar (2024)
  • FRCS(Eng) – Royal College of Surgeons of England (April 2024)
  • JSCFE Neurosurgery – Joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examination (January 2024)
  • FEBNS – European Board of Neurological Surgery (March 2022)
  • ABNS – Arab Board of Neurosurgery (May 2018)
  • JBNS – Jordanian Board of Neurosurgery (September 2017)

Education

MBBS – Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Sana'a University, Faculty of Medicine
Graduated 2009

Employment & Training History

Pediatric Neurosurgery Specialist
Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
January 2025 – present
Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow
Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
December 2022 – December 2024
Neurosurgery Hospitalist
Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
March 2020 – November 2022
Assistant Consultant Neurosurgeon
King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
July 2018 – March 2020
Neurosurgery Trainee (Rotation)
King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
March 2016 – July 2016
Neurosurgery Resident
Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan
July 2012 – July 2017

Clinical Focus

  • Pediatric brain and spinal tumors
  • Cranial and spinal congenital anomalies
  • Hydrocephalus – shunt and endoscopic surgery (ETV, ETV+CPC)
  • Pediatric epilepsy surgery
  • Microscopic, endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques
  • Neuro-navigation, intraoperative ultrasound, MRI/CT planning

Selected Research & Publications

  • Minimally invasive surgery for sagittal craniosynostosis: helmet duration, shape outcomes, parental satisfaction. Sidra Medicine – in progress.
  • Suboccipital atretic cephalocele as a marker for Joubert-plus syndrome: an extended phenotype of the CPLANE1 gene mutation. Cureus 2025;17(12):e99416. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.99416. Open via DOI ↗
  • Central neurocytoma: retrospective study of 33 cases (King Hussein Medical Center & King Hussein Cancer Center, 2004–2018). DOI: 10.5455/aim.2020.28.120-125. Open via DOI ↗
  • Isolated intracranial Rosai–Dorfman disease mimicking meningioma. DOI: 10.19080/oajnn.2017.05.555656. Open via DOI ↗
  • Isolated spinal Rosai–Dorfman disease: a management challenge. DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2017.03.555607. Open via DOI ↗
  • Morphometric analysis of thoracic pedicles in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (n = 75).

Selected Conferences & Academic Activities

  • Paediatric Neuroscience Conference – Doha, Qatar (October 2024)
  • Surgical Annual Research Day – Sidra Medicine (February 2024)
  • Faculty – Paediatric Neuroscience Conference, Doha (November 2023)
  • EANS 2023 Annual Congress – Barcelona, Spain
  • Organizer – Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida (SRHSB) Annual Meeting, 2021 & 2022
  • eEANS 2021 Annual Congress – Germany (virtual)
  • Peer-reviewer for neurosurgical journals

Languages

  • Arabic – Native
  • English – Fluent (IELTS 8.5)

For professional correspondence, please contact Dr. Al-Kadasi through Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.