He graduated from Cairo University in December 1995 with honours, and then underwent comprehensive neurosurgical training before becoming appointed as a Consultant at Cairo University Neurosurgical department in 2004.

Mr Ibrahim moved to the UK in 2010 and undertook further training in Fellowships at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff under Mr Richard Hatfield, Mr Brian Simpson and Mr George Stephenson. This was followed by a Skull Base Surgery Fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with Mr Richard Kerr. His Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Fellowship training was in Sheffield in 2012 and 2013.

He trained in Complex Spine Surgery at the Cardiff and Vale Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery and Trauma Unit, which is an internationally-renowned spinal training centre and recognised AO Spine Reference Centre. He gained extensive exposure and experience in all aspects of spinal disease from trauma to tumour work, through to adult and paediatric spinal deformity. This gave him the unique opportunity of the understanding of spinal pathology from an orthopaedic perspective, in addition to his neurosurgical experience.

Simple and complex spine surgery:

• Treatment of low back pain
• Leg pain (sciatica)
• Neck and arm pain due to degenerative spine disease
• Management of spinal tumours and vascular malformations

Gamma knife radiosurgery:

Mr Ibrahim practises gamma knife radiosurgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Thornbury Hospital Gamma Knife Unit treating the intracranial conditions of:

• Meningiomas
• Vestibular (acoustic) schwannoma
• Intracranial Metastasis
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• Arteriovenous malformations and cavernomas
• Glomus jugular (paraganglioma) tumours

• Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng)
• European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)