Dr. Ayman Albanyan

Pediatrics Neurosurgery Department
National Neuroscience Institute

Current Position
Chairman, Pediatric Neurosurgery Department, Nni
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Pediatric Neurosurgery Department, Nni
General Details
Gender:
Male
Languages Spoken:
Arabic & English

Education & Board Certificates
September 1986 – July 1992: Medical student, faculty of medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
August1992 – August 1993: Rotating Internship, King Saud University affiliated hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
November 1993 – March 1996: Resident in Department of surgery, Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
April 1996 – June 2002: Neurosurgery residency at University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
July 2002 – July 2003: Clinical fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Expertise or Specialty
Pediatric Neurosurgery

Research & Publications
Long Balloon Inflation Time of 20 Minutes Increases Remission Time in Percutaneous Balloon Rhizolysis for Trigeminal Neuralgia. A. Al-Banyan, R. Mantle, B. Benoit. A paper presented at the CNS (Congress of Neurological Surgeons) 51st Annual meeting, in San Diego, California, USA, September 2001.
Congenital Brain Tumors, the CHEO Experience, K. Al-Musrea, E. Venturayra, M. Vassilyadi, A. Al-Banyan, 2001.
Neurosurgical Aspects of Achondroplasia. A. Al-Banyan, J.P Farmer, J. Montes, A paper presented at the Congress Des Sciences Neurologiques Du Quebec, November 2002.
Primary Central Nervous System Ewing’s Sarcoma; Role of Molecular Studies – Report of Two Cases. A. Al-Banyan, J.P Farmer, J. Montes. A paper presented at the Brain Tumor Research Center Fellows Day, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada, 2003.
Management of Pediatric CNS Arteriovenous Malformations: The McGill Experience. Jean-Pierre Farmer, A.J Sabbagh, Ayman Al-Banyan, Jose Montes. A paper presented at the American Association of Neurological Surgery (AANS) annual meeting 2003.
Surgical Management of Cerebral Palsy Spasticity in Children – Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. A paper presented at the workshop: Medical and Surgical Advances in Cerebral Palsy Management, held at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, 2006.
Respiratory Difficulties Encountered During Posterior Fossa Surgery. M. Takrouri, MB, ChB, FRCA (I), M. Saqer MD, CJBA, MsA, A. Al-Banyan MBBS, FRCSC. A paper published in the Internet Journal of Anesthesia, 2008; Vol 16 (1).
A contributor in the book entitled Cases in Neurosurgery by Remi Nader and Abdulrahman Sabbagh (Thieme Publishers), chapter 58, Brain Stem Gliomas-Pons. 2009.
Intraoperative Neurophysiology with High Field Intraoperative MRI for Brainstem Tumors. A. Sabbagh. A. Al-Banyan .R. Bunyan, M. AL-Yamany, et al. 2009. A paper presented at the 44th Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation Congress, June 2009.
Endoscopic Assisted Trans-Ventricular Functional Hemispherotomy for Intractable Epilepsy: A Technical Report. Alameer R.S., Sabbagh A.J., Alrashidi S.M, Albanyan A.A., Soualmi L.A., Bamogadam F. A paper presented at the 2nd East Mediterranean Epilepsy Congress, Dubai, March, 2010.
Post Myelomeningocele Repair Complications: Institutional Based Review. N. Saydalany, A.Albanyan, N.Elbakhry, M.Ahmed, S.Alzahrani, A.Sabbagh. A paper presented at the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) Annual Meeting, Korea, 2010.
A contributor in the book entitled Neurosurgery Rounds: Questions and Answers by Mark Shaya, Remi Nader, Jonathan Citow, Hamad farhat, & Abdulrahman Sabbagh. (Thieme Publishers).

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