Ahmed M. Raslan, M.D., FAANS

  • Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Interim Chair for Clinical Affairs, Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Chief, Division of Functional Neurosurgery, Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Raslan is a professor of neurological surgery, managing patients with a range of neurosurgical disorders. His practice focuses on epilepsy surgery; brain mapping for tumors and epilepsy, which often involves awake craniotomy; surgery for chronic and cancer pain (trigeminal neuralgia, spinal pain and many other chronic pain syndromes); hydrocephalus; and movement disorders.

Dr. Raslan's research focuses on cerebral cortical physiology and cognitive decoding. He is particularly focused on developing and testing newer high-resolution neural biointerfaces for the brain and spinal cord and decoding cognitive processes such as memory encoding, language and number cognition. Additionally, he studies nociception (pain detection) and pain modulation, pathophysiology of trigeminal neuralgia, outcomes of functional neurosurgery, functional localization using intraoperative and extraoperative mapping, surgical education and operative efficiency.

Visit the Department of Neurological Surgery's website for information about academics, conferences, residency and fellowships.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.B.B.C.H., 1994, Ain Shams University
    • M.S., 1998, Ain Shams University
    • M.D., 2002, Ain Shams University

  • Residency

    • Oregon Health and Science University, 2006-2012
    • Ain Shams University, 1996-2002

  • Fellowship

    • Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Science University, 2004-2005
    • Neurological Surgery, University of British Columbia, 2005-2006

  • Certifications

    • American Board of Neurological Surgery

Memberships and associations:

  • American Board of Neurological Surgery
  • American Association of Neurological Surgeons
  • Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  • American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
  • North American Neuromodulation Society
  • American Epilepsy Society

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Selected publications

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=raslan+am

Publications

  • Combination Resective or Ablative Epilepsy Surgery with Neurostimulation for Complex Epilepsy Networks

    Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
    1. Christian G. Lopez Ramos
    2. Maryam N. Shahin
    3. Beck Shafie
    4. Hao Tan
    5. Erin Yamamoto
    6. Alexander P. Rockhill
    7. Adeline Fecker
    8. Mostafa Ismail
    9. Daniel R. Cleary
    10. Ahmed Raslan
    11. Lia D. Ernst

  • Reoperation Rates and Risk Factors after Spinal Cord Stimulation Revision Surgery

    Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
    1. Samuel H. Kim
    2. Christian G. Lopez Ramos
    3. Mihir J. Palan
    4. Elise Kronquist
    5. Hao Tan
    6. Mohamed Amgad Elsayed Elkholy
    7. Ahmed Raslan

  • Smaller thoracic canal diameters are associated with thoracic radiculopathy and abdominal pain after spinal cord stimulator paddle lead placement

    Pain Practice
    1. Brian T. Ragel
    2. Matthew McGehee
    3. Nicolas Karvelas
    4. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Analysis of spinal canal diameter in the placement of thoracic spinal cord stimulator paddle leads

    Pain Practice
    1. Brian T. Ragel
    2. Tressa Riedman
    3. Matthew McGehee
    4. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • A systematic review of focused ultrasound for psychiatric disorders

    Neurosurgical focus
    1. Matthew C. Henn
    2. Haley D. Smith
    3. Christian G. Lopez Ramos
    4. Beck Shafie
    5. Jefferson Abaricia
    6. Ian Stevens
    7. Alexander P. Rockhill
    8. Daniel R. Cleary
    9. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Beta Oscillations in the Sensory Thalamus During Severe Facial Neuropathic Pain Using Novel Sensing Deep Brain Stimulation

    Neuromodulation
    1. Christian G. Lopez Ramos
    2. Alexander P. Rockhill
    3. Maryam N. Shahin
    4. Antonia Gragg
    5. Hao Tan
    6. Erin A. Yamamoto
    7. Adeline L. Fecker
    8. Mostafa Ismail
    9. Daniel R. Cleary
    10. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Comparative efficacy of awake and asleep motor mapping in glioma surgery

    Neurosurgical Review
    1. Dina Essam Abo-elnour
    2. Pavel Salvador Pichardo-Rojas
    3. Yomna Emad Abdalla
    4. Moaz Khaled Salama
    5. Toka Elboraay
    6. Marwa Abdelazim Rizk
    7. Ahmed Negida
    8. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Compassion, communication, and the perception of control

    British Journal of Neurosurgery
    1. Dana Dharmakaya Colgan
    2. Ashely Eddy
    3. Margarita Aulet-Leon
    4. Kaylie Green
    5. Betts Peters
    6. Robert Shangraw
    7. Marie Angele Theard
    8. Seunggu Jude Han
    9. Ahmed Raslan
    10. Barry Oken

  • Effect of spinal cord stimulation on quality of life and opioid consumption in patients with failed back surgery syndrome

    Pain Practice
    1. Mohamed Amgad Elsayed Elkholy
    2. Ahmed Nagaty
    3. Ahmad Elsayed Abdelbar
    4. Hisham Abdelsalam Mohamed Simry
    5. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Flexible, scalable, high channel count stereo-electrode for recording in the human brain

    Nature communications
    1. Keundong Lee
    2. Angelique C. Paulk
    3. Yun Goo Ro
    4. Daniel R. Cleary
    5. Karen J. Tonsfeldt
    6. Yoav Kfir
    7. John S. Pezaris
    8. Youngbin Tchoe
    9. Jihwan Lee
    10. Andrew M. Bourhis
    11. Ritwik Vatsyayan
    12. Joel R. Martin
    13. Samantha M. Russman
    14. Jimmy C. Yang
    15. Amy Baohan
    16. R. Mark Richardson
    17. Ziv M. Williams
    18. Shelley I. Fried
    19. U. Hoi Sang
    20. Ahmed M. Raslan
    21. Sharona Ben-Haim
    22. Eric Halgren
    23. Sydney S. Cash
    24. Shadi A. Dayeh

  • Functional neurosurgery for pain and movement disorders with a special emphasis on spasticity

    Neurosurgical focus
    1. Kim J. Burchiel
    2. Francisco Ponce
    3. Albert Lee@MD, MSECE
    4. Ahmed M. Raslan
    5. Sharona Ben-Haim
    6. Marc Sindou

  • Improving Quality Care and Patient Safety With Implementation of an Oversew Stitch in Lumbar Drains

    Journal for Healthcare Quality
    1. Erik C. Brown
    2. Samantha Fay
    3. Ahmed M. Raslan
    4. Christina M. Sayama

  • Intraoperative application and early experience with novel high-resolution, high-channel-count thin-film electrodes for human microelectrocorticography

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Hao Tan
    2. Angelique C. Paulk
    3. Brittany Stedelin
    4. Daniel R. Cleary
    5. Caleb Nerison
    6. Youngbin Tchoe
    7. Erik C. Brown
    8. Andrew Bourhis
    9. Samantha Russman
    10. Jihwan Lee
    11. Karen J. Tonsfeldt
    12. Jimmy C. Yang
    13. Hongseok Oh
    14. Yun Goo Ro
    15. Keundong Lee
    16. Mehran Ganji
    17. Ian Galton
    18. Dominic Siler
    19. Seunggu Jude Han
    20. Kelly L. Collins
    21. Sharona Ben-Haim
    22. Eric Halgren
    23. Sydney S. Cash
    24. Shadi Dayeh
    25. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Investigating the Triple Code Model in numerical cognition using stereotactic electroencephalography

    PloS one
    1. Alexander P. Rockhill
    2. Hao Tan
    3. Christian G. Lopez Ramos
    4. Caleb Nerison
    5. Beck Shafie
    6. Maryam N. Shahin
    7. Adeline Fecker
    8. Mostafa Ismail
    9. Daniel R. Cleary
    10. Kelly Collins
    11. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Rapid Passive Gamma Mapping as an Adjunct to Electrical Stimulation Mapping for Functional Localization in Resection of Primary Brain Neoplasms

    World Neurosurgery
    1. Hao Tan
    2. Joseph G. Nugent
    3. Adeline Fecker
    4. Emma A. Richie
    5. Kayla A. Maanum
    6. Caleb Nerison
    7. Stephen G. Bowden
    8. Ilker Yaylali
    9. Seunggu J. Han
    10. Dana D. Colgan
    11. Barry Oken
    12. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • ReNeu

    Journal of Clinical Oncology
    1. Christopher L. Moertel
    2. Angela C. Hirbe
    3. Hans H. Shuhaiber
    4. Kevin Bielamowicz
    5. Alpa Sidhu
    6. David Viskochil
    7. Michael D. Weber
    8. Armend Lokku
    9. L. Mary Smith
    10. Nicholas K. Foreman
    11. Fouad M. Hajjar
    12. Rene Y. McNall-Knapp
    13. Lauren Weintraub
    14. Reuben Antony
    15. Andrea T. Franson
    16. Julia Meade
    17. David Schiff
    18. Tobias Walbert
    19. Prakash Ambady
    20. Daniela A. Bota
    21. Cynthia J. Campen
    22. Gurcharanjeet Kaur
    23. Laura J. Klesse
    24. Stefania Maraka
    25. Paul L. Moots
    26. Kathryn Nevel
    27. Miriam Bornhorst
    28. Ana Aguilar-Bonilla
    29. Sarah Chagnon
    30. Nagma Dalvi
    31. Punita Gupta
    32. Ziad Khatib
    33. Laura K. Metrock
    34. P. Leia Nghiemphu
    35. Ryan D. Roberts
    36. Nathan J. Robison
    37. Zsila Sadighi
    38. Stacie Stapleton
    39. Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic
    40. Timothy R. Gershon
    41. Ahmed Raslan
    42. Brian Van Tine
    43. Carl Koschmann
    44. Jamie K. Capal
    45. John Slopis
    46. Jonathan Gill
    47. Lindsay Kilburn
    48. MacIej M. Mrugala
    49. Radhika Dhamija
    50. Ryan Merrell

  • Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion

    Neuron
    1. Young Hoon Nho
    2. Camarin E. Rolle
    3. Uros Topalovic
    4. Rajat S. Shivacharan
    5. Tricia N. Cunningham
    6. Sonja Hiller
    7. Daniel Batista
    8. Austin Feng
    9. Flint M. Espil
    10. Ian H. Kratter
    11. Mahendra T. Bhati
    12. Marissa Kellogg
    13. Ahmed M. Raslan
    14. Nolan R. Williams
    15. John Garnett
    16. Bijan Pesaran
    17. Desmond J. Oathes
    18. Nanthia Suthana
    19. Daniel A.N. Barbosa
    20. Casey H. Halpern

  • Responsive neurostimulation as a therapy for epilepsy following new-onset refractory status epilepticus

    Clinical Neurophysiology
    1. Audrey Oliger
    2. Caleb Nerison
    3. Hao Tan
    4. Ahmed Raslan
    5. Lia Ernst
    6. Proleta Datta
    7. Marissa Kellogg

  • Responsive neurostimulation as a treatment for super-refractory focal status epilepticus

    Journal of neurosurgery
    1. Lia D. Ernst
    2. Ahmed M. Raslan
    3. Angela Wabulya
    4. Hae Won Shin
    5. Sydney S. Cash
    6. Jimmy C. Yang
    7. Vishwanath Sagi
    8. David King-Stephens
    9. Eyiyemisi C. Damisah
    10. Alexander Ramos
    11. Batool Hussain
    12. Sheela Toprani
    13. David M. Brandman
    14. Kiarash Shahlaie
    15. Kiran Kanth
    16. Amir Arain
    17. Angela Peters
    18. John D. Rolston
    19. Meaghan Berns
    20. Sima I. Patel
    21. Utku Uysal

  • Syllable processing is organized in discrete subregions of the human superior temporal gyrus

    PLoS Biology
    1. Daniel R. Cleary
    2. Youngbin Tchoe
    3. Andrew Bourhis
    4. Charles W. Dickey
    5. Brittany Stedelin
    6. Mehran Ganji
    7. Sang Heon Lee
    8. Jihweean Lee
    9. Dominic A. Siler
    10. Erik C. Brown
    11. Burke Q. Rosen
    12. Erik Kaestner
    13. Jimmy C. Yang
    14. Daniel J. Soper
    15. Seunggu Jude Han
    16. Angelique C. Paulk
    17. Sydney S. Cash
    18. Ahmed M. Raslan
    19. Shadi A. Dayeh
    20. Eric Halgren

  • A Method of Intraoperative Registration Verification to Prevent Accuracy Errors in Robot-Assisted Stereotactic Electroencephalography Electrode Placement

    World Neurosurgery
    1. Miner N. Ross
    2. Erik W. Larson
    3. Maryam N. Shahin
    4. Nasser K. Yaghi
    5. David J. Mazur-Hart
    6. Ann Mitchell
    7. Faye Mulcahy
    8. Lia D. Ernst
    9. Kelly L. Collins
    10. Nathan R. Selden
    11. Ahmed M. Raslan

  • Deciphering spatially distinct immune microenvironments in glioblastoma using ferumoxytol and gadolinium-enhanced and FLAIR hyperintense MRI phenotypes

    Neuro-Oncology Advances
    1. Jared Stoller
    2. Cymon N. Kersch
    3. Leslie L. Muldoon
    4. Prakash Ambady
    5. Christina A. Harrington
    6. Rongwei Fu
    7. Ahmed M. Raslan
    8. Aclan Dogan
    9. Edward A. Neuwelt
    10. Ramon F. Barajas