About us

Walid Ibn Essayed, MD, is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who treats cranial and spinal neurosurgical conditions, including elective and emergent cases. He has a special interest in brain tumors and skull base surgery. 
He’s also an assistant professor of neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. 
Ibn Essayed received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis. He then completed neurosurgery residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. During his training, he completed a research fellowship in open skull base and endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He also completed a clinical fellowship in image-guided neurosurgery and a clinical fellowship in skull base surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
While at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he sought ways to improve the practice of neurosurgery, working on multiple patented devices to advance the specialty. He is the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed publications, reviews, and chapters, including Nature Communications, Journal of Neurosurgery, Operative Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery, PLOS One, and Journal of Neuro-Oncology.