Dr. Mansoor Foroughi
Chief Medical Officer - Innovation
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Mr Mansoor Foroughi - MB ChB (Sheff), FRCS (London), MSc (Neurovascular disorders), FRCS(SN), FEBNS, EANS (Braakman Diploma)
Mr Mansoor Foroughi qualified from Sheffield Medical School in the UK, commencing extensive neurosurgical training at the Royal London Hospital, before completing his formal Neurosurgical training program in University Hospital of Wales. This was followed by three fellowships including two long and intensive international fellowship programs in Helsinki, Finland and Vancouver, Canada, during which he also completed his MSc program in Neurovascular diseases. On return to the UK, he worked as a senior fellow at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in both anterior & lateral skull base surgery and use of minimally invasive techniques, before working as a Consultant Neurosurgeon for several years at QEH Birmingham.
While working in one of UK's busiest Neurosurgical units, focusing on surgery of low volume complex tumours and vascular pathology, in keeping with the units international reputation he further focused on management of Hydrocephalus and the treatment of Chiari Malformations, Syringomyelia, colloid & arachnoid cysts and development of neuro-endoscopic procedures.
He subsequently worked as a full time NHS consultant in Brighton between 2015 and 2022, and since then he has been in private practice in Brain & Spine surgery as well as being a medicolegal expert for the last 10 years. He has more than 27 years experience in Neurosurgery, is passionate about new and beneficial technology, and use of Artificial Intelligence in disease detection and prevention.
He has performed more than 4000 Neurosurgical procedures, presented and published dozens of articles & abstracts, and authored several Neurosurgical book chapters. Innovations have included the development of the virtual endoscope using a haptic device and Stereoscopic imaging for rehearsal of operations in 2006 which was awarded a national innovations prize. Also development of a brain dissecting ballon cannula and introducing new techniques and operations such as insertion of modified ICP monitoring devices allowing telemetric assessment of ICP in brain arachnoid cysts.
In 2019 he was the founder of the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) section for the European Association of Neurological Surgeons (EANS) and led the group in pioneering the CSF section for the EANS. He has been involved in Artificial Intelligence projects and innovations with AI Nexus since early 2019, and directly involved in innovations such as vitals signs monitoring and stroke detection using readily accessible digital imaging.