Professor Tipu Z. Aziz
Tipu Z. Aziz, BSc, MD, MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Surgical neurology) is
Neurosurgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, UK.
He is Member of International College of Surgeons, Member of Society of
British Neurosurgeons, and Member of the British Medical Association.
Tipu’s interests include Neurosurgery, Parkinson’s disease, multiple
sclerosis, dystonia, spasmodic torticollis (fixed abnormal posture of
the neck), tremor, and intractable neuropathic pain.
He trains surgeons from the UK and abroad in functional and stereotactic
surgery for movement disorders. He has established local movement
disorder services, including surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, London;
Karachi, Pakistan; Brisbane, Australia; Treviso, Italy; Iceland; and
Singapore. He advises the U.K. Department of Health via the NSCAG forum
on
providing functional surgery at nationally approved
centres.
Research has routinely been part of his clinical practice. He lectures
widely at Magdalen College, Oxford and Imperial College Medical School,
London, and supervises numerous research projects. Much of his time in
teaching is spent in the supervision of research projects of MSc, MD,
and DPhil graduate students.
Projects have included
visually guided
tracking tasks in patients with multiple sclerosis and tremor; changes
in voluntary movements after thalamotomy and pallidotomy for Parkinson’s
Disease; a study of the internal perception of speed of movement in
Parkinsonian patients; a comparative study of lesioning the thalamus,
pallidum and the sub-thalamic nucleus in alleviation of Parkinson’s
Disease.
Tipu coauthored
Reversal of akinesia in experimental parkinsonism by GABA antagonist
microinjections in the pedunculopontine nucleus,
Involvement of the Medial Pallidum in Focal Myoclonic
Dystonia: A Clinical and Neurophysiological Case Study,
Pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation improves
akinesia in a Parkinsonian monkey,
Analysis of action tremor and impaired control of movement velocity
in
multiple sclerosis during visually guided wrist-tracking tasks,
Global attentional—executive sequelae following surgical lesions
to
globus pallidus interna, and
Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial
Aneurysms: A Minimally Invasive Approach
with Advantages for Elderly Patients.
He lectures nationally at post-graduate meetings for doctors in
training,
to meetings of the Parkinson’s Disease Society, and to the International
Tremor Foundation. He is a frequently invited speaker at international
meetings.
Tipu was born in East Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh into what The
Guardian called a “medical dynasty”. He arrived in Britain at the age
of 17 with just three O-levels, but after passing A-levels, he studied
neurophysiology at University College London, where he became interested
in deep brain stimulation. He went on to study for a doctorate at
Manchester University.
Watch
A debate on Vivisection between Michelle Thew and Professor Tipu Aziz
moderated by Jeremy Paxman.