Dr John Usuah

MBBS, MRCS (Eng), PGCert (Edin), FWACS (Neurosurgery), FMCS (Neurosurgery), FRCS (Neurosurgery), FACS

Dr. John Usuah is a consultant neurosurgeon with extensive international training and experience across high-volume neurosurgical centres in West Africa, Asia, and the United Kingdom. He completed his basic neurosurgical training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, during which he also undertook a period of specialist training in India.

Driven by a strong commitment to clinical excellence, Mr Usuah subsequently pursued advanced subspecialist training in the United Kingdom, where he currently practises. He has completed multiple competitive fellowships in skull base neurosurgery, vascular neurosurgery, neurotrauma, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders and hydrocephalus at leading tertiary centres, including the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

His subspecialist interests include vascular neurosurgery, skull base neurosurgery, neurotrauma, CSF disorders and hydrocephalus, Chiari malformation, and degenerative spinal disease.

Dr. Usuah is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the American College of Surgeons, the West African College of Surgeons, and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He holds full specialist registration with both the General Medical Council (UK) and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. He is an active member of several professional bodies, including the Nigerian Academy of Neurological Surgeons (NANS) and the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS).

His professional interests encompass operative microneurosurgery, academic research, postgraduate education, service development, quality improvement, mentorship, and multidisciplinary collaboration, with a strong commitment to evidence-based, patient-centred care.