Professional background

Ayman Qureshi is a consultant in diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

 Dr. Qureshi studied medicine at the University of Nairobi, College of Health Sciences, graduating in 2007. He went on to complete postgraduate masters training in diagnostic imaging and radiology at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, graduating in 2013 following successful completion of his thesis on skeletal metastases in prostate cancer and its relationship with PSA in the local population. During his postgraduate training he completed the fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists examinations and was admitted to the college in 2014.

 Following this, Dr. Qureshi completed over three years of fellowship training in diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology on the pan-London neuroradiology training scheme, accumulating experience from Queen Square, Kings College Hospital and St. Georges University Hospital, as well as paediatric experience at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He subsequently spent a year of fellowship training in interventional neuroradiology at Toronto Western Hospital. During his time in Toronto, he gained further experience in paediatric neurointervention at Sick Kids Hospital.

 In addition to reporting of diagnostic neuroimaging, he performs endovascular treatment and management of neurovascular diseases of the brain and spine including arterio-venous shunting lesions, aneurysms and stroke, and percutaneous image guided spinal procedures.

Specialties

Research interests

Neurovascular disease in adults and paediatrics

Languages spoken

Swahili

Publications

Congenital Tracheal Stenosis in a patient with Cleft Lip.The Annals of African Surgery. July 2013. Volume 10. Issue 2.

Prostate Specific Antigen as a risk factor for Skeletal Metastases in Black African men with Prostate Cancer. World J Nucl Med. 2017 Jan-Mar; 16(1):26-32

Endovascular stroke treatment: an up-to-date review. Fatania G., Qureshi A., Booth T.C. Book of Abstracts. ECR 2017. 2017; C-2122.  

The medical management of arterio-venous malformations. Qureshi A., Amarouche M., Booth T.C. Book of Abstracts, American Society of Neuroradiology. 2017; eP-93.

Reviewing recent research in thrombectomy for ischaemic stroke. Booth T.C., Qureshi A., Fatania G. Book of Abstracts, American Society of Neuroradiology. 2017; O-517.

Cervical Spinal Cord intramedullary abscess: streptococcus intermedius. T Mostafa, O Latinwo, J Grieve, C Curtis, A QureshiJ Spinal Surg 2017: 4(3): 126 – 129

Differential Diagnosis in Medicine (Marban). ISBN 8417184902Co-author – Radiology section

Determinants of Radiation Dose in Selective Ophthalmic Artery Chemosurgery for Retinoblastoma. Qureshi AM, Davies LK, Patel PA, Rennie A, Robertson F. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2019;40(4):713-717. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6000

E-232 Mid-term results of aneurysm treatment with the new surpass evolve flow diverter: a multicenter experience. Orru E, Rice H, De Villiers L, A Wakhloo, GS Chia, A Qureshi, T Krings, VM PereiraJournal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 2020;12:A155-A156