Staff Profile

5th International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, March 2001, Cairo.
• 1st training course on the stereotaxis and functional neurosurgery. Department of neurosurgery, Ain shams University. Cairo, July 2001.
• Workshop of Stereotaxy of functional neurosurgery in African countries. The Egyptian society of neurological Surgeons in collaboration with the pan African association of neurological sciences. Cairo, March 2002.
• Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgeons Meeting in Collaboration with French Neurosurgical Society, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, March 2003.
• Egyptian Society of Neurology, Psychiatry & Neurosurgery, 5th CNS Cairo International Neurology Conference, presenting a talk entitled “Rule of Botulinum toxin type A in management of spasticity”. Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Jan. 2004.
• 2nd International Congress of Egyptian Society of Child Neuro Psychiatry (ESCNP) & 4th Pan Arab Neurology Conference In collaboration with International child Neurology Association (ICNA), Oral presentation entitled “Minimally invasive techniques for spasticity”. Cairo, April 2004.
• Annual summer meeting of the department of neurosurgery, Alexandria University in collaboration of the Egyptian society of neurological surgery. Sept. 2004.
• 1st Brain Microsurgery Course, by Albert Rhoton, M.D, Department of Neurosurgery, Ain Shams University in collaboration with brain surgery institute, University of Florida, from Feb.16 to Feb.18, 2005.
• 3rd International congress of Egyptian society of child neuropsychiatry(ESCNP). Aswan, March 2005.
• Neuropathology Symposium, The department of pathology and laboratory medicine, Mayo medical school, Rochester, USA in collaboration with The department of Neurosurgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo May, 2005.
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Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
• Workshop on Surgery of the Craniovertebral Junction. Summer meeting of the Egyptian society of neurological
surgeons and the department of neurosurgery, Alexandria University. September 2005.
• Neurosurgical destructive procedures for pain management, intensive program. Prof. Yucil Kanpolat, Department of neurosurgery, Ankara University, Ankara-Turkey, November 2005.
• Neuro-Radiology symposium. Department of neurosurgery, Mansoura University in collaboration with the Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgeons and the Egyptian Society of Radiodiagnostic Medicine. Mansoura, Egypt, Jan. 2006.
• The 31st annual conference of the Egyptian Society of the neurological surgeons. Hurgada-Egypt. March 2006.
• Decision Making in the management of childhood spasticity meeting. Mougins-France, May 2006.
• Future Experts symposium meeting. Madrid, Spain. 14-16 May 2006.
▪ BOTOX, Experience Exchange Platform, Allergan scientific program. Cairo September 2006.
▪ Annual meeting of the Egyptian society of neurological surgeons in collaboration with Lebanese society of neurological surgery, World association of Lebanese neurosurgeons and Middle East neurosurgical society. March 2007.
▪ Rehabilitation for all meeting, The Grimaldi Forum Congress Center -Monaco, France, March 2007.
▪ Educational Course in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, the department of neurosurgery, Ain Shams University in collaboration with the Egyptian society of neurological surgery. Presenting a lecture entitled” Neurosurgical management of spasticity”. April 2007.
▪ Annual summer meeting of the department of neurosurgery, Alexandria University. In collaboration of the Egyptian society of neurological surgeons. Borg El-Arab, Alex-Egypt. Sept. 2007.
▪ Conferences
Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
▪ Endoscopy Hands-On workshop: WFNS training course
organized by WFNS-ESNS, Prof Y.Kato. Sharm El-Sheikh,Egypt, Oct. 2007.
▪ 13th WFNS interim meeting / 12th AASNS meeting, Nagoya-Japan, Nov. 2007.
▪ Brain & Spine Endoscopy workshop by IFNE, Nagoya-Japan, 22 Nov. 2007.
▪ 33rd Annual meeting of the Egyptian society of neurological surgeons in association with Japan Neurosurgical Society, Feb. 2008.
▪ 2nd Rehabilitation for All meeting, Barcelona, Spain, March 2008.
▪ Annual meeting of AMFG (Azhar Faculty of Medicine for Girls), 30 Oct. 2008. Speaker, presentation titled” Intractable spasticity in pediatric age group: What can neurosurgery do?”
▪ 2nd American (AANS)-Kuwaiti neurosurgical meeting, Kuwait, 15-19 Nov. 2008.
▪ XIV World Congress of Neurological Surgery, Boston, MA.USA, August 2009. Oral presentation” Strategy of invasive management of pediatric hypertonia: An Egyptian Experience”
▪ XXII congress of European society of pediatric neurosurgery, Antalya-Turkey, April 2010. Oral presentation in spasticity session” Strategy of invasive management of pediatric hypertonia: An Egyptian Experience”
▪ 4th American (AANS)-Kuwaiti neurosurgical meeting, Kuwait, 4-8 December 2010. Poster presentation” Combined anterior and posterior lumbar rhizotomy.
▪ Management of CP hypertonia with Botulinum Toxin Workshop (Instructor), Rafiq Al-Hariri Hospital meeting, Lebanon, March 11th, 2011.
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Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
▪ Updates in Cerebral Palsy Conference & workshop, 28-29 Oct, 2011- University of Free State, Bloemfontein – Republic of
South Africa. Invited Speaker, presenting “Comprehensive management of hypertonia in children. The Egyptian Experience”
▪ 1st Middle East Spine meeting, 7-9 Dec. 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
▪ 9th Pan Arab child Neurology congress (PACNS) Alexandria, Egypt on April 17-18, 2013. Presenting “Management of Disability in CP: Recent concepts and our multidisciplinary approach”

XV World Congress of Neurological Surgery, Seoul, South Korea, September 2013. Oral presentation” Central procedures versus peripheral procedures in management of Spastic Cerebral Palsy.”
▪ Allergan European Network (AEON) meeting for Spasticity and movement disorders, Budapest- Hungary April 2014
▪ 10th Pan Arab Child Neurology Congress (PACNS) Alexandria- Egypt, April 2014. Presentation” SEMLS- The Importance of Full Dose Treatment”.
▪ Train the Trainer meeting. Management of Adult Spasticity, Istanbul- Turkey, December 2014
▪ First international congress of the Neurosurgery Department, Ain Shams University. Instructor of Precongress workshop “Role of Botulinum Toxin Type A in management of Hypertonia”
▪ First international congress of the Neurosurgery Department, Ain Shams University. Functional Neurosurgery session, April 16, 2015, Oral Presentation entitled “Management of Motor Disability in Children with Cerebral Palsy. Ain Shams University Experience”
▪ 36th Annual Medical Congress of Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University, April 25-27, 2015. Oral Presentation entitled” Brain Machine Interface, A Step to the Future”
▪ 19th International congress of Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders, June 13-18, 2015, San Diego, USA. Poster Presentation entitled” Combined Anterior and posterior Lumbar Rhizotomy for treatment of Mixed Dystonia and Spasticity in children with cerebral palsy”
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Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
▪ 3rd Annual Course of Skull base approaches and Skull base endoscopy of the Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgery in
collaboration with the Military Medial Academy, Feb 21-23, 2016
▪ 1st annual Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Hands-on Training Course, Mar 29– Apr 2, 2016 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Hosted by the OHSU Brain Institute, Invited Faculty “Rhizotomy and peripheral neurotomy for treatment of spasticity”
▪ 2nd Annual International Congress of Department of Neurosurgery- Ain Shams University, April 4-7, 2016, Oral Presentation entitled “Combined Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Rhizotomy for Treatment of Mixed Hypertonia in Cerebral Palsy”
▪ 2nd Annual International Congress of Department of Neurosurgery- Ain Shams University, April 4-7, 2016. Post Congress Hands-on workshop “Comprehensive management of pediatric disabilities”
▪ 1st Allergan-MENA (Middle East- North Africa) standalone meeting, May 20-21, 2016, invited speakers “Debate of Localizing and evaluation of spasticity: EMG VS. U/S”, “Surgery for treatment of spasticity in JCP”
▪ Annual CNS meeting, Aug 2016, San Diego, CA-USA. Poster presentation” Comparative study between outcomes of Neuromodulation and Neuroablation for 2ry Dystonia”
▪ 1st International Educational Course for Movement Disorders (EMDS-2017), in collaboration with the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society (MDS) and Movement Disorders Clinic in Ain Shams University Hospitals, Feb 23-25, 2017. Course Director. Lecture entitled “Management of Hypertonia in Cerebral Palsy”
▪ 1st International Educational Course for Movement Disorders (EMDS-2017), in collaboration with the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society (MDS) and Movement Disorders Clinic in Ain Shams University Hospitals, Feb 23-25, 2017. Course Director. Instructor of Post Congress Hands-On Workshop “Botox for Dystonia”
▪ 33rd annual meeting of the AANS/CNS section on disorders of spine, Spine Summit 2017, Las Vegas, NA, USA, Mar 8-12, 2017. Oral Presentation “Short segment with Index screw versus long segment stabilization of traumatic dorsolumbar stabilization: Angle of correction and Pain”

Texas Tech University, El Paso, TX-USA, Department of Orthopedic surgery, April 6, 2017. CME lecture “Pediatric
Hypertonia: Management Algorithm”
▪ 2nd annual Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Hands-on Training Course, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) April 5-8, 2017. Hosted by the OHSU Brain Institute, Invited Faculty “Central and Peripheral procedures for treatment of Hypertonia”. ▪ 17th Quadrennial meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Berlin- Germany, 26-29 June 2017. Oral presentation, clinical trial session” Combined Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Rhizotomy in Treatment of Mixed Spasticity and Dystonia in Children with Cerebral Palsy” ▪ XVI WFNS meeting – Istanbul, Turkey 8-2017, Oral presentation” Ultrasound-guided versus traditional surgical resection of supratentorial gliomas in a limited-resources neurosurgical setting: a comparative study”
▪ XVI WFNS meeting – Istanbul, Turkey 8-2017, Oral presentation” Short segment with Index screw versus long segment stabilization of traumatic dorsolumbar stabilization: Angle of correction and Pain”. Presenter: Walid Abdel Ghany instead of Ahmed Sallam. Won the 6th Award of 20 researches by young neurosurgeons. ▪ 45th annual meeting of the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN), October 2017 – Denver, CL. USA. Poster presentation” Major Surgical Interventions for Management of Disabilities in Children with Cerebral Palsy GMFC levels IV & V: The Real Challenge”. Chair of session” Dysraphism” Tuesday 10 October; 10:05-10:40”
▪ 3rd Educational course of the Egyptian Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Group {ESFSN), December 21, 2017. Lecture presentation” Functional Neurosurgery is a No Doubt surgery: The Peripheral Monitoring” ▪ 2nd Meeting of The Pediatric neurosurgery group, Departement of Neurosurgery, Ain Shams University. March 18th, 2018. Keynote lecture” Philosophy of Management of Hypertonia in CP: State of Evidence”
▪ 4th Kuwait Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Conference. 16-18 March 2018. Keynote lecture” Philosophy of Management of Cerebral Palsy:
▪ Conferences
Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
The Level of Evidence and Real Practice”. Workshop: Multidisciplinary management of pediatric hypertonia” ▪ 41st Annual meeting of the Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgeons in collaboration with the German Neurosurgery Society. March 18th , 2018. Functional and stereotactic neurosurgery group Hands-on Workshop: Spasticity and Pain management in Neurosurgery, presenting a lecture entitled “Rhizotomy and Peripheral neurotomy”. ▪ 1st Cerebral Palsy day, Pediatric Orthopedic group, Department of Orthopedic surgery, Ain Shams University. March 29, 2018. Keynote Lecture” Rhizotomy: The Evidence”
▪ 3rd annual Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Hands-on Training Course, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) April 6-8, 2018. Hosted by the OHSU Brain Institute, Invited Faculty “Central and Peripheral procedures for treatment of Hypertonia”
▪ 23rd Mediterranean Child Neurology Congress in collaboration with the Egyptian society of the child neuropsychiatry, Pan arab child neurology society, International child neurology association (ICNA), African Child neurology association (ACNA) April 2018. Keynote lecture” Motor Development in Cerebral Palsy: Impact of Neurosurgery”. Chairperson of session entitled” Cerebral palsy”.
▪ 1st Annual Ain Shams Stereotactic and functional Neurosurgery Course ( 1st ASFN): Movement Disorders & Pain. 7-8 September 2018. Course Coordinator and Cadaveric workshop instructor. Keynote lecture: Spinal Cord Stimulation. Workshop instructor: Drug Delivery systems (cadaveric illustration)

23rd meeting of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN)- Edinburgh, Sep 26-29,2019. Oral Presentation” The Impact of Combined Anterior and Posterior Lumbar Rhizotomy for children with CP on spinal interneurons activity: The Indirect neuromodulation”.
▪ 2nd MSSFN conference – Cairo, 6-8 February 2019. Conference secretary and coordinator. Keynote lecture (Ambassador program -MDS Course: Indirect neuromodulation in pediatric Movement disorders: CP). Workshop instructor: workshop 3: Botulinum Toxin in Movement Disorders, Workshop 5: Drug Delivery System.
▪ Conferences
Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, M.D., Ph.D.
▪ 4th annual Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Hands-on Training Course, Oregon Health and Science University
(OHSU) April 3-5, 2019. Hosted by the OHSU Brain Institute, Invited Faculty “Central and Peripheral procedures for treatment of Hypertonia: the indirect neuromodulation”.
▪ University of Louisville – Kentucky -USA. Department of Neurosurgery and Physical rehabilitation. April 12-13, 2019. Visiting professor, presenting Grand Rounds for Department of Neurosurgery and one day Teaching for Neuro-Rehabilitation residents. Guest of Prof. Joseph Neimat, Chairman of Neurosurgery and Rehabilitation Departement.
▪ 18th meeting of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, New York- USA, 24-27 June 2019. Presented a Poster Presentation entitled: “Selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity due to upper motor neuron lesions: A systematic review”.
▪ 5th annual Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Hands-on Training Course, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) April , 2021. Hosted by the OHSU Brain Institute- online, Invited Faculty “Central and Peripheral procedures for treatment of Hypertonia: the indirect neuromodulation”.
▪ Epilepsy Day, Egyptian Society for Child Neuropsychiatry, Jan 27, 2022. Invited Speaker, Keynote Lecture “Role of Epilepsy Surgery for DRE”