About Dr Alavi
Dr Alavi completed his Neurosurgery training in the United Kingdom after working for many years in Cambridge, Birmingham and Nottingham as a clinical research fellow and specialist registrar.
Dr Alavi has also worked as senior clinical fellow in complex spinal surgery at the world-renowned Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Prizes, Awards & Distinctions
▸ SBNS silver cup for contribution to Pituitary research, Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Oxford, UK, 2017.
▸ The best pituitary presentation of the year prize for the abstract entitled Pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury: incidence, risk factors and quality of life in a prospective study. Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Newcastle, UK, 2016.
Publications
▸ Post-operative volumes following endoscopic surgery for non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas are predictive of further intervention, but not endocrine outcomes.
Seejore, K., Alavi , S.A., Pearson, SM et al. BCN Endocrine Disorders (Springer Nature), June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-021-00777-8
▸ The learning curve for endoscopic trans-sphenoidal resection of pituitarymacroadenomas.
A Single Institution Experience, Leeds, UK.J.M.W Robins, S.A. Alavi, A.Tyagi , P. Nix , N. Phillips.The European Journal of Neurosurgery (Acta Neurochirugica), October 2017.DOI:10.1007/s00701-017-3355-1
▸ Endoscopic repair of the anterior skull base - is there a learning curve?
Paul Nix, SA Alavi, Atul Tyagi and Nick Phillips, British Journal of Neurosurgery (BJN), May 2018, DOI:10.1080/02688697.2018.1478062
▸ The screening and management of pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury in Adults: British Neurotrauma Group guidance.
Chin Lik Tan, Seyed Alireza Alavi, Stephanie Baldeweg, Antonio Belli, Alan Carson, Claire Feeney, Anthony P Goldstone, Richard Greenwood, Mark Gurnell, David K Menon, Helen L Simpson, Andrew A Toogood, Peter J Hutchinson, British Neurotrauma Group. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP), August 2017 DOI:10.1136/jnnp-2016-315500
▸ Incidence of pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury: A prospective study from a regional neurosurgical centre.
S.A. Alavi, C.Tan, H. Simpson, D. Menon, P.J. Hutchinson. Addenbrooke’s hospital. Cambridge. British Journal of Neurosurgery (BJN), Nov 2015. DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2015.1109060.
Podium Presentations
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Evidence based medicine in post traumatic hypopituitarism; The SBNS British Neurotrauma Group.
S.A. Alavi et all on behalf of the SBNS British neurotrauma group. Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Plymouth, UK, April 2018.
▸ Pituitary adenoma - Clinical importance of residuum.
S.A. Alavi, J.M.W Robins , A. Tyagi , P. Nix , N. Phillips, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds. 68th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery and the 7th Joint Meeting with the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS). Magdeburg, Germany, May 2017.
▸ The learning curve for endoscopic trans-sphenoidal resection of pituitary macroadenomas.
J.M.W Robins, S.A. Alavi, A. Tyagi , P. Nix ,N. Phillips, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds. 68th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery and the 7th Joint Meeting with the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS). Magdeburg, Germany, May 2017.
▸ Pituitary tumours – factors influencing recurrence.
S.A. Alavi, J.M.W Robins , A. Tyagi , P. Nix , N. Phillips, Leeds General Infirmary, Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Oxford, March 2017.
▸ The incidence of CSF leak in endoscopic anterior skull base surgery and the efficacy.
S.A. Alavi, A. Tyagi, P. Nix, N. Phillips. British Skull Base Society meeting, Cardiff, UK, Jan 2017.
▸ Pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury: incidence, risk factors and Quality of life in a prospective study.
Queen Elizabeth hospital and SRMRC (Surgical Reconstructive and microbiology research centre). Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Newcastle, April 2016.
▸ Pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Addenbrooke’s hospital.
S.A Alavi, D. Menon, H. Simpson, P.J. Hutchinson. Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), London,UK, Sep 2010.
▸ Management of Intra-ventricular meningiomas, surgical approach and outcome, single Institute experience. Addenbrooke’s hospital.
S.A Alavi , R.Kirollos.
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Coil embolisation of ruptured intracranial aneurysm, review of a single institute Experience.
Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, S.A Alavi, R.K. Lenthall, A.C. Thomas, N.S. McConachie, G.R. Dow. Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS),Nottingham, Sep 2008. Leeds, UK.