Mr Babar Vaqas

Dr Babar Vaqas Biography

Babar graduated in Medicine from the University of Oxford. He has a First Class BSc in Neuroscience. After graduation he was selected for the prestigious Cambridge Basic Surgical Training Program and went on to obtain his National Training Number in Neurosurgery on the competitive London Neurosurgery Training Program. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London during his training for pioneering work as one of the first in the world to use Raman Spectroscopy and the iKnife in brain tumour surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Chair of the North East London Cancer Alliance Brain ERG. His main area of interest is in using advanced mapping and imaging technologies for complex brain tumour resection.