W S El Masri

Professor W. S. El Masri (Y), MB, BCH, FRCS, FRCP, PHF, is a Clinical Professor of Spinal Injuries at Keele University and an Emeritus Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital. He also served as Past President of the International Spinal Cord Society. WEM specifically trained between 1971 and 1983 in the specialty of traumatic spinal injuries (tSCI) and its allied specialities at Stoke Mandeville, Oxford, Guys Hospitals in the UK & the USA. WEM lectures worldwide in developed and developing countries. He contributed to the literature with 155 publications. He held the offices of: President of the International Spinal Cord Society, Chairman of the British Association of Spinal Cord Injury Specialists and Executive Member of the BSRM; Founder Member and trustee of SPIRIT Educational Charity in Spinal Injuries and Transhouse Charity as well as Trustee of the Institute of Orthopaedics at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shrop., UK.

He was advisor to WHO‘s & Co-author of the WHO International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury which was published in 2013 and was Member of the NICE Guideline Developing Group on acute spinal injuries. He received a number of awards including: An "A" Excellence award of the NHS, Medal of the International Spinal Cord Society, National Hospital Doctor Team Award for Innovation, Paul Harris Fellowship of the Rotary Club, Outstanding achievement award from the Chinese Society of Spinal Injuries, Outstanding Consultant Achievement award by the Spinal Injury Association, Hon. Presidency of the Romanian Spinal Cord Society. He was commended for his Service twice in the House of Lords as example of good practice(Hansard) on the 8th April 2003, vol 647, no.79, p204 and 9th March 2006 vol 679, no 117, p88 and 28th February 2009.