Owase Jeelani
neurosurgeon and academic
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. He is Professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He leads the FaceValue research group in Craniofacial Morphometrics, device design, and clinical outcomes.
Dr Jeelani is known for his work separating craniopagus twins in 2011, 2019, 2020 2021, 2022 and 2024.
In 2019, he founded the charity Gemini Untwined. In 2025, Dr Jeelani was awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours list for outstanding contributions to neurosurgery and global health.
Education and career
Dr Jeelani obtained his Medical Degree in 1997 from the University of Nottingham. His basic surgical training took place in Nottingham and Southampton, and his Neurosurgical and Craniofacial training took place in the UK and Canada. He undertook fellowships in Paediatric Neurosurgery and Craniofacial Surgery at GOSH and at Sick Kids, Toronto.
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