Guirish Solanki

Mr. Guirish Solanki is a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham and Clinical Senior Lecturer to the School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK. He is the Training Programme Director and Chair of the Neurosurgery Speciality Training Committee (STC) for the West Midlands and a member of the National Speciality Advisory Committee (SAC) in Neurosurgery. Mr Solanki is the immediate past Chair of the British Paediatric Neurosurgery Group and sits on the executive board of the International Society of Paediatric neurosurgery.

He trained in Neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital, the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, where he did a spinal research fellowship with Professor Alan Crockard and later at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, where he did his paediatric fellowship. He was a visiting Consultant at Enfant Malades, Necker Hospital in Paris to further his paediatric neurosurgery experience.

His main clinical and research interests include, Complex Spine Surgery including cranio-vertebral junction, spinal involvement of Inborn errors of metabolism, skeletal dysplasia, congenital dysraphism, Neuro-oncology, treatment of Chiari & Syringomyelia.

He contributes to national and international multi-centre clinical trials. He has just under 3200 citations for over 123 publications with the largest number of citations at 677, an h-index of 26 an i10-index of 40.

He loves playing chess and was a national junior basketball player for Mozambique where he was born.