Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon
Royal Adelaide Hospital, Women's & Children's Hospital, University of Adelaide,
Linden Park, Australia
Associate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden, MD, FRACS is a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Women’s & Children’s Hospital, and clinical Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide. She completed her Neurosurgery training in Adelaide and Melbourne and subsequently completed 3 post-FRACS fellowships - at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, in epilepsy surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children in Paediatric Neurosurgery and Toronto Western Hospital in Vascular Neurosurgery.
She is the Vascular Neurosurgery Lead, Director of Neurovascular fellowship and Neurosurgery Education & Training programs at the Royal Adelaide and Women’s & Children’s Hospitals. She continues to be at the forefront of advancing surgical care, chairing the Neurovascular Multidisciplinary program, working within neuro-oncology and epilepsy surgery multidisciplinary teams, establishing and managing clinical specialty databases, and incorporating the latest evidence-based technology and clinical protocols to improve patient recovery and achieve the best possible outcomes. She is active in clinical research and post-graduate student supervision and has been Principal Investigator for a number of National and International Clinical Trials. She is the Co-Chief Investigator for the EVACUATE RCT.
Amal is the president of the World Association of Neurological surgeons, Chair of Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RACS), South Australia, Examiner at the RACS Neurosurgery Court of Examiners and S.A. representative at the RACS Neurosurgery Education and Training board and Research Committees, World Federation of Neurosurgical Society (WFNS) Paediatric Neurosurgery Education Committee and member of the Society of University Neurosurgeons.
Friday, April 21, 2023
2:20pm – 2:35pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose