Owase Jeelani

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Noor ul Owase Jeelani is a Kashmiri-British neurosurgeon and academic. He is a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and was the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery from 2012 until 2018. [1] He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. [2] He leads the FaceValue research group in Craniofacial Morphometrics, device design, and clinical outcomes. [3]

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Jeelani is known for his work separating craniopagus twins in 2011, [4] 2019, [5] 2020 [6] 2021, [7] 2022 [8] and 2024. [9]

In 2019, he founded the charity Gemini Untwined. [10]

Education and career

Jeelani obtained his Medical Degree in 1997 from the University of Nottingham. [1] His basic surgical training took place in Nottingham and Southampton, and his Neurosurgical and Craniofacial training took place in the UK and Canada. [1] He undertook fellowships in Paediatric Neurosurgery and Craniofacial Surgery at GOSH and at Sick Kids, Toronto. He also holds a master's degree in medical law from the University of Glasgow and an MBA from INSEAD. [1]

In 2012 Jeelani was appointed as the Lead Clinician for the Department of Neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. [1] Jeelani was named in ‘The Times’ top 100 surgeons in the UK in 2011 [11] and the top 100 children's doctors in 2012. [12]

He led the successful separation of five sets of conjoined twins: Rital and Ritag in 2011, [4] Safa and Marwa in 2019, [13] Yigit and Derman in 2020 [6] and two Israeli twins in 2021. [14] In 2022 Jeelani was part of a UK and Brazilian team that separated Bernardo and Arthur Lima, two Brazilian twins, in a 33 hour operation. [15] On July 19, 2024, Jeelani lead a team at Ankara Bilkent City Hospital in Turkey, using mixed reality technology, to complete a 14-hour second stage surgery to separate Pakistani twins, Minal and Mirha. [9] These procedures were covered extensively by international media outlets. [16] [17] [18]

Since 2012 he has been the co-director of FaceValue, a research programme based at University College London (UCL) that specialises in designing machine learning algorithms to improve surgical outcomes. [19]

In 2007, Jeelani invented CranioXpand, a spring distractor technology for minimally invasive Craniofacial surgery. [20] The IP was obtained by KLS Martin, a medical devices company. [21]

Jeelani undertakes healthcare advisory work for the NHS and other private organisations. [22] In 2003 he founded a strategy consulting company, Interface Health Solutions.

Charity Work

In 2019, he co-founded Gemini Untwined, a global charity dedicated to supporting the research and treatment for CPT twins. [23]

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  2. ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ "Face Value". GOSH Charity.
  4. 1 2 France, Louise. "Separate lives: Rital and Ritag's incredible story" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Conjoined twins return home after successful separation". BBC News. 19 October 2020.
  6. 1 2 Correspondent, Hannah Lucinda Smith, Istanbul | Kat Lay, Health. "Conjoined twins go home to enjoy their time apart" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.{{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  8. ↑ "Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality". BBC News. August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  9. 1 2 "Rare conjoined twin girls separated after 14 hour operation". Sky News. September 2024. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "About Gemini". Gemini Untwined.
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  12. ↑ Naish, John. "Britain's top children's doctors 2012" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "Conjoined Twin Girls Separated After 50 Hours of Operations". Time.
  14. ↑ "Separated conjoined year-old twins see each other for the first time". NBC News .
  15. ↑ "Conjoined twins who shared fused brains successfully separated in Brazil". Sky News. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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  18. ↑ "BBC".
  19. ↑ "Craniofacial Group: FaceValue". UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. 1 June 2018.
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