About
Trained in Scotland and London. Practising in Edinburgh.
Mr Imran Liaquat is a consultant neurosurgeon. His private practice is Neurospine Scotland Ltd. The biography below is drawn from his Spire, PHIN, Doctify and Top Doctors profiles, with the roles he asked to be stated in his own words.
He graduated MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 2002, with a BSc in Medical Science. Basic surgical training was in the west of Scotland. A registrar year in London followed, at King’s College Hospital and St George’s Hospital, before neurosurgical specialty training in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
He returned to St George’s for a subspecialist neurosurgery fellowship. That year covered general neurosurgery and neuro-oncology, including awake craniotomy, fluorescence-guided tumour resection and the management of low-grade gliomas. He then took up a consultant post in Edinburgh, at the time based at the Western General Hospital. His NHS practice is now in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Degenerative spine makes up about half of his operative workload. Outpatient clinics see around 500 people a year with back and neck pain and other spinal conditions. In parallel he developed the adult neuro-oncology surgical service and, between 2017 and 2025, was Lead Clinician for the Scottish Adult Neuro-oncology Network, work that included quality performance indicators and earlier diagnosis in the community.
Teaching sits beside the operating. He completed a master’s in surgical education, is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Clinical Tutor at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Academy of Medical Educators, and a Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is National Training Programme Director for Neurosurgery.
Training
The route to consultant practice.
2002 · Glasgow
Medical school
MBChB and a BSc in Medical Science at the University of Glasgow.
West of Scotland
Basic surgical training
Core surgical years before neurosurgical specialty training.
London
Registrar year
King’s College Hospital and St George’s Hospital.
Scotland
Neurosurgical training
Specialty training across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
St George’s
Fellowship
Awake craniotomy, fluorescence-guided resection and low-grade glioma.
Edinburgh
Consultant
Appointment in Edinburgh, now at the Royal Infirmary, with private rooms at three hospitals.
Societies
Memberships and languages.
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons
- British Neuro-oncology Society
- European Association of Neuro-Oncology
- Academy of Medical Educators
- Faculty of Surgical Trainers, RCSEd
- British Spine Registry and the Neurosurgical National Audit Programme, as declared on PHIN
Consultations are offered in English, Punjabi and Urdu.
The portrait on the home page is the photograph published on his Doctify profile. A higher-resolution file can replace it when one is supplied.