Wagih El Masri

Biography:

Prof W S El Masri FRCS Ed, FRCP currently Hon. Clinical Professor of Spinal Injuries (SI), Keele University has trained between 1971 & 1983 in the Oxford group of hospitals, Guys Hospital in London, Stoke Mandeville hospitals and the USA. He obtained the first accreditation in Spinal Injuries and General Surgery in 1982. Appointed Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries at the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries in 1983. He personally treated 10,000 patients with SI. He published over 155 manuscripts. He is the author of the: Concepts of “Physiological Instability of the Spinal Cord”, “Time related Biomechanical Instability”, “Micro-instability of the injured spine” and published the largest series to date of Bladder cancer in SCI patients. He has repeatedly demonstrated and published on the discrepancy between the radiological and neurological presentation of patients with acute traumatic SI with and without neurological damage on admission and on discharge. He proposes this is probably due to the loss of some initial force from the impact that damages the bony spine which becomes less injurious to neural tissues. He asserts that further neurological damage can be easily caused by systemic complications that are not too difficult to prevent, as the result of anaesthetic and/or surgical mishaps during intervention and/or poor post-operative care. He advocate for adequate Active Physiological Conservative Management of the injured spine together with the wide range of medical and non-medical effects of the neurological injury from the first few hours or days of injury. He is Past-President of the International Spinal Cord Society; Past Chairman British Association of Spinal Cord Injury Specialists and has lectured world-wide. He won many National and International awards.