Mr Taofiq Desmond Sanusi

Mr Taofiq Desmond Sanusi is a consultant neurosurgeon practising at Nuffield Health Hospitals in Highgate and Brentwood. He specialises in complex spine and craniocervical pathologies, adult spinal deformities, robotic spinal surgery, spinal tumours, cerebrospinal fluid disorders, degenerative disc disease, and disc prolapse.

Mr Sanusi undertook UK national runthrough neurosurgery training programme, he proceeded to complete dual Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Spinal Training. He was appointed as one of the first three prestigious national post-CCT Spinal Training Interface Fellowships, which he completed at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He also completed advanced specialist spinal endoscopic fellowship training in South Korea at Sygyero Hospital under the tutelage of one of the world’s most renowned endoscopic spinal surgeons. He then gained further expertise in robotic spinal surgery and complex spinal deformity correction at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. Mr Sanusi is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Europeans Board of Neurosurgery.

In addition to his clinical practice, Mr Sanusi is a researcher and academic, and has been recognised for his contributions to his field with various national and international awards, such as the 2023 British Association of Spinal Surgeons Travelling Fellowship Award and the 2024 British Neurosurgical Trainees Association’s Codman Travelling Scholarship.