Biographies

Introduction
Owase Jeelani, BMedSci, MBBS, MBA, MPhil (Medical Law), FRCS is a world-renowned paediatric neurosurgeon, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The Time Magazine ranked him as among the top 100 surgeons in the UK in 2011 and top 100 paediatric specialists in the UK in 2012. His endeavours are designed around optimal prediction algorithms to improve outcomes. He is passionate about addressing global asymmetries utilising technology.

Qualifications
Prof. Jeelani undertook his medical training at the University of Nottingham and specialist Neurosurgical and Craniofacial training in the UK and Canada.
He holds an MPhil in Medical Law from the University of Glasgow and an MBA from INSEAD, studying in France, Singapore, and the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia.

Clinical practice
He has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) part-time since 2000 and full-time since 2009 and he undertakes 200 paediatric neurosurgical and craniofacial surgeries annually. His sub speciality interests are Craniofacial Reconstructive Surgery, Craniopagus Separation Surgery, Surgery for Brain Tumours and Cerebrospinal Fluid and Intracranial Pressure Pathologies.
Mr Jeelani is currently the Head of the Craniofacial Surgery Department at GOSH and was the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery from 2012 – 2018.

Gemini Untwined
Mr Jeelani is the Founder of Gemini Untwined, a global charity dedicated to the research and treatment of craniopagus twins and other complex craniofacial and neurosurgical conditions.
Owase Jeelani has received international recognition for separating 6 sets of craniopagus twins, including Sudanese twins Rital and Ritag in 2011 and then, through Gemini Untwined, Pakistani twins Safa and Marwa in 2019 (BBC News coverage of Safa and Marwa ranked as the 6th most read news item globally in 2019), Turkish twins, Yigit and Derman in 2020, a set of Israeli twins in 2021 and a two set of Brazilian Twins in 2022 and 2023.

Research interests
Owase Jeelani is a Professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery at University College London Institute of Child Health (UCL) and the Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeon of England.
Combining medical and entrepreneurial aptitude, Owase Jeelani is a Principal Investigator of FaceValue, a UCL-based research team of doctors, scientists, and biomedical engineers that design surgical devices and machine-learning algorithms to predict and improve surgical outcomes; the inventor of CranioXpand, a cranial distractor system; and part of the team behind Klay BioTech; An AI-driven, 3D VR platform, The Klay Platform uses proprietary hardware and software to plan, visualise, develop, and execute procedures. It offers an unprecedented level of predictability for craniofacial surgeries, patient control, and informed consent.