Mr Akram is a highly skilled and experienced neurosurgeon with a particular interest in deep brain stimulation, ablative surgery, microvascular decompression, and occipital nerve stimulation. He obtained his medical qualification from Al-Mustansirya University in Iraq in 2002, and then completed specialty training at the London School of Surgery. He has also undertaken clinical fellowships at both the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Barrow Neurological Institute in the USA.

Mr Akram has received several prestigious awards, including the Cutlers' Surgical Prize for his work in surgical equipment design or use and the Norman Dott Gold Medal for achieving the highest score on the FRCS examination. He is also a prolific researcher with a particular interest in advanced computational neuroimaging and connectomic neurosurgery. In fact, he won the Queen Square Symposium PhD Prize in 2018 for his work on 'The Application of Advanced MRI connectivity in Functional Neurosurgery.' Currently, Mr Akram's research is focused on the development of translational methods in MRI brain connectivity.