A/Prof Amal Abou-Hamden is a leading Australian trained neurosurgeon with International post graduate fellowship training in cerebrovascular, pediatric and epilepsy surgery. She is the Lead Vascular Neurosurgeon at the Royal Adelaide and the Women’s and Children’s Hospitals and cerebrovascular surgery fellowship program.
She has subspeciality expertise and extensive experience in microsurgery for complex aneurysms and AVM’s, cerebral revascularisation surgery with ECIC Bypass surgery for Moya Moya disease, steno-occlusive disease as well as for complex & giant aneurysms.
Combined with her expertise in paediatric and adult endoscopic surgery, she has served as faculty on a number of endoscopic surgery courses and has been a leader in introducing and teaching the minimally invasive ICH evacuation surgery technique to stroke neurosurgical centres in Australia and internationally along with co-CIs of the current EVACUATE RCT. She is very active in training future generations of neurosurgeons having served as supervisor of neurosurgical training and is a current Neurosurgery Examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. She is active in clinical research and has served as PI on many International clinical Trials as well as postgraduate student research supervision.
Beyond her clinical and academic roles, Amal contributes to the broader medical community having served on a number of Surgical Education and Training boards and as SA Chair at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.