Mr Bassel Zebian

Professional statement

Mr Bassel Zebian is a highly regarded and experienced consultant paediatric and adult neurosurgeon who specialises in brain tumours, spinal tumours, spinal stenosis, spinal surgery, chiari malformations, hydrocephalus, and degenerative disc disease. He is, at present, practising at the King's College Hospital and The London Bridge Hospital. 

Mr Zebian, who also specialises in arm pain, back pain, neck pain, sciatica, neuroendoscopy, minimally invasive neurosurgery, and syringomyelia, obtained his first medical qualification in 2000, completing a BSc at King’s College London. He then completed his specialist neurosurgical training in London, notably rotating between King’s College Hospital, St George’s, and the Hurstwood Park Neurosciences Centre. Impressively, he also undertook a paediatric neurosurgical fellowship at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Mr Zebian is the current training and education and undergraduate medicine for neurosurgery lead at King's College Hospital. He has an active interest in research, and has published extensively in a number of national and international publications. In 2017, he received the Zenith Global Health Special Recognition Award for Innovation in Neurosurgery. 

He has received a global innovation in healthcare award for his endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques which have allowed access to previously inaccessible lesions and their resection using endoscopic ultrasonic aspirators with one of the largest series of such resections in the world. He has the largest UK series of paediatric brain and spine tumour resections using Gliolan (intraoperative tumour fluorescence). He is the neurosurgical lead on fetoscopic repairs of open neural tube defects (spina bifida), a role that won him his second global healthcare award. This is the only service of its kind in the U.K.