Dr. Muhammad Hayek Specialist Neurosurgery
Years of Experience : 19
Nationality : Germany
Languages Known : Arabic, English, German
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Dr. Muhammad Hayek is a German board-certified neurosurgeon with extensive training and expertise in functional neurosurgery, spine surgery, neuromodulation, radiosurgery, and pain medicine. He obtained his license to practice medicine in 2007 after completing his medical degree and state examination at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Following this, Dr. Hayek began his neurosurgical residency at the Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Center, University Hospital Freiburg, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Christoph Ostertag. From 2009 to 2014, he continued his residency in neurosurgery at the Klinikum Kassel, where he completed his training and achieved the German Board Certification in Neurosurgery in Frankfurt. In 2014, he received additional qualification in Emergency Medicine from the Medical Association of Hessen, Frankfurt. Between 2014 and 2016, Dr. Hayek served as Consultant for Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Magdeburg, specializing in stereotaxy, neuromodulation, radiosurgery, and neuro-oncology. He further expanded his expertise from 2016 to 2017 as Consultant for Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery at St. Marien Hospital in Helmstedt, an academic teaching hospital of the University Hospital Magdeburg. In 2019, Dr. Hayek earned an additional subspecialty qualification in Pain Medicine from the Medical Association of Hessen, Frankfurt. Since October 2018, he has been working as Senior Consultant for Neurosurgery, Spine Surgery, and Pain Medicine at Frankenberg Hospital, an academic teaching hospital of Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Dr. Hayek’s clinical and scientific interests include advanced spine surgery, functional neurosurgery, stereotactic techniques, neuromodulation, radiosurgery, and multidisciplinary management of chronic pain.
Awards & Achievements
- Certificate of advanced training in functional neurosurgery, Freiburg, Magdeburg
- Edited Book of Principles of Stereotactic Neurosurgery (Arabic). Authored by Muhammad Ali Hayek
- Diploma in acupuncture of German acupuncture Academy
- Additional qualification and subspecialty in Emergency Medicine
- certification of spine surgery from the German Society for Spine Surgery and EuroSpine Diploma
- Publications: Impact of external ventricular drainage volumes on shunt dependency after subarachnoid hemorrhage, Authored by Muhammad Ali Hayek and published 22 July 2016 in Journal of Neurological Surgery PubMed: 27448196 DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1584813
- Additional qualification and subspecialty in pain medicine
Research & Publications
- Edited Book of Principles of Stereotactic Neurosurgery (Arabic). Authored by Muhammad Ali Hayek
- Impact of external ventricular drainage volumes on shunt dependency after subarachnoid hemorrhage, Authored by Muhammad Ali Hayek and published 22 July 2016 in Journal of Neurological Surgery PubMed: 27448196 DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1584813
Education & Training
- MBBS, German MCH
Expertise
- Brain and Spinal Tumor Surgery
- Brain and Spinal Trauma Surgery
- Post-traumatic Kyphosis
- Brain and Spinal Anomalies
- Headaches, Back Pain and neck pain Cases
- Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Surgeries of the Brain and Spine
- Multiple Injection Techniques for Back and Neck Pain including Radiofrequency procedures
- Neurosurgical Cases with ICU Management includ CSF and Brain Pressure Monitoring
- CSF Shunting Techniques with Hydrocephalus Cases
- Complex Skull Base Surgeries, Minimally Invasive Surgeries for Endonasal transsphenoidal Pituitary Tumors
- All degenerative Spine Cases of the Lumbar, Thoracic, and Cervical Spine, Offering Anterior, Posterior, Lateral and Minimally Invasive Lateral Surgeries like TLIF, XLIF, ALIF and ACDF
- Transthoracic and retroperitoneal Vertebral Body-, Disc- Replacement
- Spinal Traumatology of the Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spine, Including Vertebral Body Replacement and Corpectomy
- Spinal Infections (Spondylodiscitis, Discitis, Epidural Abscesses)
- Spinal Tumor Surgery
- Spinal Deformities, Including Adult Degenerative Scoliosis
- Revision Brain and Spine Surgeries
- Peripheral nerve surgeries
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