
Wagih El Masri
Keele University & Emeritus Consultant Surgeon, UKBiography
Wagih
El Masri trained between 1971 & 1983 in the Oxford group of hospitals, Guys
Hosp. London, Stoke Mandeville hospital and the USA. He obtained the first
accreditation in the fields of Spinal Injuries and Allied Surgical Specialities
in 1982. Appointed Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries at the Midland Centre
for Spinal Injuries, the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital in 1983. He personally
treated 10,000 patients with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries and took full
responsibility for the lifelong monitoring and care of 3000 of these patients.
He published over 145 manuscripts. He is 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 of Bladder cancer in SCI patients as well as the longest follow up manuscript on Post
Traumatic Syringomyelia. He has repeatedly demonstrated and published on the
discrepancy between the radiological and neurological presentations of patients
in support of the hypothesis that the initial force of the impact and the
quality of the management of both the injured spine and the effects of cord
injury are the two major determinants of the initial neurological loss and the
neurological outcome. 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 is Founder member of SPIRIT Educational Charity
in Spinal Injuries and currently Chairman of Trustees of the Charity He won many National and International awards
and was commended in the House of Lords on two occasions.