Syed Abdur Rahman Mustafa Dr.

Specialities
Radiology
Languages
English, Kannada, Urdu/ Hindi

Core competencies

  • Endovascular & Vascular minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including angioplasty, venoplasty and fistula interventions.
  • Trauma endovascular minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including embolization and stent insertion.
  • Oncology minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including tumour embolization and ablation.
  • Gastrointestinal minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including oesophageal stent insertion.
  • Hepatobiliary minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including trans-hepatic / tranjugular biopsy, trans-hepatic biliary stent insertion, Trans-arterial chemo (TACE) and radio-embolisation (SIRT).
  • Nephrology / Renal minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including renal biopsy and fluoroscopic studies.
  • Urology minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including nephrostomy and ante-grade stent insertion.
  • Pulmonology / Respiratory minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including pulmonary ad bronchial angiogram and embolization.
  • Paediatric minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including central venous access.
  • Musculoskeletal / Orthopaedic minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including bone biopsy.
  • Obstetric minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including peri-operative and post-partum bleed intervention.
  • Gynaecology minimal-access image-guided surgery / percutaneous intervention including uterine fibroid embolisation.
  • Vascular imaging including CT Angiogram / Venogram, MRI and Ultrasound Doppler
  • Oncology imaging including CT and MRI cross-sectional imaging

Profile

Nationality
British
Summary
Dr Syed Mustafa is a Senior Interventional Radiologist with vast experience in image-guided, endovascular, percutaneous body and oncology interventions.
He has previously worked in the NHS for more than nineteen years and recently at the American Hospital Dubai for two years.
He did his undergraduate medical degree from Bangalore University in India. He initially underwent surgical training and obtained MRCS (Edinburgh) and the CCBST (UK) before entering the specialist radiology training at the National Imaging Academy Wales, UK.

He successfully completed FRCR (London) and did subspecialist complex vascular interventional radiology training at the Leicester Vascular Institute and University Hospitals of Leicester Interventional Radiology department.
Dr Mustafa has received dual accreditation from The General Medical Council, UK with Certification of Completion of Training (CCT) in Diagnostic Radiology along with sub-specialisation in the field of Interventional Radiology (IR).
He worked as a Consultant in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Leicester Vascular Institute and the University Hospitals of Leicester, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with more than 2000 beds.
Leicester Vascular Institute has pioneered several vascular interventional radiology procedures such as the well-known sub-intimal angioplasty technique and the aortic endovascular graft.

Dr Mustafa particularly enjoys exploring innovative technologies and challenges to improve future patient-care and treatment options. He has participated in several research projects including the BASIL3 and PAVE. He has many international presentations and publications to his credit.
He is highly focused on patient safety and quality improvement, and was the IR lead for Vascular access and the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) lead for Body Intervention at Leicester.
Dr Mustafa has extensive experience in endovascular procedures including peripheral, visceral arterial and aortic interventions. He particularly enjoys complex embolisations (including chemo-embolisation and radio-embolisation) as well as the ablation therapy. He has a special niche at venous access interventions and has developed complex venous recanalisation techniques and also mentored his consultant colleagues in this area.
Dr Mustafa has a keen interest in education and mentorship of his juniors, including the under-graduate and post-graduate medical training in the UK.

He has been a Royal College of Radiology (RCR) Educational Supervisor for senior radiology and foundation trainees.
He has taught in various FRCR courses within the UK and abroad and has also been a faculty on several Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Anaesthesia courses. He is a medical examiner and an interviewer for Leicester Medical School.

Qualification

MBBS, MRCS (Edin), CCBST (UK), FRCR (Lon), CCT in diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (UK)

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