Mr Sinan Barazi

Mr Sinan Barazi is a leading London-based​ pituitary, skull base, trigeminal neuralgia/facial pain and spinal neurosurgeon. He was born in Copenhagen and subsequently moved to the United Kingdom where he attended Winchester College.

He qualified from King’s College Hospital School of Medicine in 1996, after which he completed his French military service in the 14th Parachute Regiment in Toulouse. He completed his surgical training in London at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, King’s College Hospital, and St George’s Hospital.

After finishing his specialist training, he worked in Bologna, Italy, as a fellow in endoscopic pituitary surgery under Giorgio Frank and Ernesto Pasquini, and finally in Manchester as a skull base fellow under Professor Andrew King and Scott Rutherford. He was appointed consultant skull base neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2011.

He is a core member of the Skull Base, Pituitary and Complex Facial Pain multi-disciplinary teams and he has established the Complex Facial Pain service with Dr Giorgio Lambru across the King’s College Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital sites. He has published extensively in major neurosurgical journals and has presented at national and international meetings on a range of topics including pituitary, skull base and facial pain surgery. To date he has performed over 1200 pituitary operations and over 300 microvascular decompressions.

Mr Barazi is a member of several professional organisations including the British Skull Base Society (BSBS) (where he has just completed three years as a council member), the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) and the Royal College of Surgeons. He is the lead for the Royal College of Surgeons accredited Senior Fellowship in Skull Base, Pituitary and Facial Pain service at King’s College Hospital.

He was appointed joint chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association of the United Kingdon in 2023 alongside Dr Giorgio Lambru. His private practice is at the Harley Street Clinic, Chiswick Medical Centre, and the Guthrie Clinic at King's College Hospital. He is fluent in English, French, Danish, German and Swedish.