Dr. Tommaso Tufo

• Neurosurgeon
• Spine surgeon

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The doctor sees patients at the following clinics:

1. Fakeeh University Hospital
   Dubai, Nadd Hessa - Dubai Silicon Oasis - Dubai

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• experience — 19 years
• Dr. Tommaso Tufo is a UK and EU board-certified senior neurosurgeon and adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the renowned Catholic University of Rome. He has over 17 years of experience in general & functional neurosurgery and has successfully operated on over 4000 brain and spine cases.
• He is also appointed the representative for the International Neuromodulation Society and a board member of the Italian chapter of the International Neuromodulation Society. He is also sitting on the editorial board of several international neuroscience journals.

• He is a member of:

  • CNS – Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  • SINCH – Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia
  • INS – International Neuromodulation Society
• • Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for epilepsy
  • Lobectomy for epilepsy
  • Minimal access epilepsy surgery
  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s Disease
  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for dystonia
  • Occipital nerve stimulation
  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for tremor
  • Thermocoagulation (Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy or Laser Thermocoagulation)
  • Awake craniotomy for tumours near the speech/motor parts of the brain
• He has a special interest in treating conditions of the brain and has held the position of Director of the Functional and Movement Disorder Group for the Rome and Lazio region, Senior Neurosurgeon and Lead Neurosurgeon at Policlinico Agostino Gemelli Foundation IRCSS University Hospital, the largest public-private hospital in Europe.
• Dr. Tufo is actively involved in state-of-the-art research and consulting as principal investigator in several research trials, pioneering the “frameless” techniques and latest treatments in neurosurgery. He is considered a leader in the field of functional neurosurgery and epilepsy, having undertaken an additional senior fellowship in functional neurosurgery at the world-class Walton Centre in Liverpool, England.
• Professor Tufo has over 30 published papers on neurosurgery, neurology and neuroscience and is regularly invited to speak at international neuroscience training events and conferences.

• Qualifications

  • MD, Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital, Catholic University of Rome, Medical School, Italy, 2005
  • Senior Fellowship Neurotrauma and Skull Base Surgery, UNICAMP University of Campinas, Brazil, and Curitiba Neurological Institute, Brazil, 2008
  • Senior Fellowship – Functional and Epilepsy Surgery, Walton Centre Institute NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2014
  • PhD Neuroscience, Catholic University of Rome, Italy, 2015

• Core Competencies

  Brain

  • Brain surgery with neuronavigation
  • Brain surgery with ultrasound
  • Robotic Biopsy
  • Image-guided brain biopsy for intracranial lesions
  • Stereotactic Brain Biopsy
  • Brain surgery with intraoperative monitoring for motor and speech area
  • Brain Mapping
• • Awake craniotomy
  • Microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery of brain tumours
  • Brain surgery with intraoperative monitoring (IOM), fluorescence-guided resection
  • Neuro-Oncology Treatment & Removal of Brain Tumors, Glioma, Glioblastoma Multiforme, Low-Grade Glioma & Astrocytoma, Meningiomas
  • Craniotomy for meningioma, glioma & glioblastoma
  • Minimal invasive treatment for Brain Metastasis
  • Treatment of Arachnoid Cyst
  • Treatment of Brain Abscess

• Complex Spine Surgery & Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) and Peripheral Nerve Surgery

  • Microsurgical approach done as routine.
  • Image-Guided Spine Surgery – Real-Time Spinal Navigation
  • Spine and Spinal cord surgery with intraoperative monitoring (IOM), fluorescence-guided resection, Continuous Intra-operative Nerve and Spinal Cord Monitoring
  • Minimal invasive technique, spinal navigation for spinal decompression and fusion
  • Microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery for cervical and lumbar disc herniation and slipping disc
  • Endoscopic surgery for disc herniation and stenosis

• Functional Neurosurgery & Pain Management

  • Pain management and procedures for spinal pain origin (spinal injection, radiofrequency, cryoablation)
  • Deep brain stimulation frameless and robotics for movement disorders, epilepsy and psychiatric disorders – OCD, Depression,
  • Thalamotomy (RF and Thermal therapy system)
  • Complex pain surgery, deep brain, pump implant, cordotomy and Spinal cord stimulation (SCS)
  • Neurosurgical treatment for spasticity, Pump Implant, SCS, rhizotomy and DREZ lesion
  • Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for epilepsy

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