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George Samandouras trained in Neurosurgery in Oxford receiving numerous teaching awards from the University of Oxford before becoming Consultant Neurosurgeon in November 2009 at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, the world's first institution specializing in brain pathologies. He runs a neuro-oncology service with high volume awake craniotomies and resection of gliomas in eloquent parts of the brain. He is invited annually to present his work to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and other international societies. He is an invited member of the Executive Committee of the AANS/CNS joint section on tumours (2016-2020). His bestselling book "The Neurosurgeon's Handbook", Oxford University Press, has been translated to Chinese in 2015.
GEORGE SAMANDOURAS
CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY
AND NEUROSURGERY
QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON, UK
GUILHERME RIBAS
PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO
MEDICAL SCHOOL, SAO PAULO
NEUROSURGEON, ALBERT EINSTEIN HOSPITAL, BRAZIL
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Professor Ribas runs a research laboratory at the Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, focusing on microneurosurgical anatomy and on cranial neurosurgical techniques; he has published more than 50 articles and 40 book chapters. He is a pioneer of stereoscopic publications in neurosurgical journals (Journal of Neurosurgery, December 2001, with its cover illustration), and his lectures are mostly done with 3D techniques since 1995. In 2010 his article The Cerebral Sulci and Gyri was the most accessed article of the whole Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group. He is a member of the editorial staff of the Neurosurgical Focus, Journal of Neurosurgery Video Supplement and reviewer for Neurosurgery, and World Neurosurgery.
ANDREW MCEVOY
CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY
AND NEUROSURGERY
QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON, UK
Andrew McEvoy is a world-leading Consultant Neurosurgeon at The National Hospital for
Neurology and Neurosurgery and Institute of Neurology in London. He has the largest adult epilepsy surgical practice in the UK and leads the surgical arm of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy which is the renowned, preeminent epilepsy research group in Europe. Mr McEvoy performs all surgical therapies for the management of epilepsy such as temporal lobe resections, hemispherectomy, corpus callosotomy, vagal nerve stimulation and gamma knife surgery. He has a number of ongoing research interests
examining the technique of EEG-fMRI, the evaluation of functional deficit following epilepsy surgery resection and imaging of the optic radiation to prevent visual field defects in temporal lobe surgery. He was listed in The Times 2010 top UK doctors for his epilepsy and brain tumour surgery
Mr Thorne is the surgical lead for Neuro-Oncology at Queen Square. He was an early adopter of multidisciplinary working, running a joint neuro-oncology clinic with a chemo-radiation oncologist from the start of his consultant career. This has given him a deep understanding of patient outcomes, reflected in his surgical approach and research. He introduced awake surgery and fluorescence-guided resection to the Neurosurgery Department of The Royal Free Hospital . Since moving to Queen Square he has included MRI guided surgery into his surgical armoury. He has produced the first, validated, grading scale for predicting surgical success in glioblastoma, and has pioneered qualitative studies of the entire decision-making process for patients with brain cancer. He is a member of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, The British Neuro-Oncology Society, and The European Low Grade Glioma Network. He has a life long commitment to surgical education and has run his own series of neurosurgery seminars in London for the last ten years.
LEWIS THORNE
CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY
AND NEUROSURGERY
QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON, UK
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Mr O’Neill’s focus is on brain tumour research. He heads up the brain tumour clinical service at Imperial College and a centre of excellence translation research programme aimed at developing and testing new treatment strategies. He particularly enjoys the application of science and technology to medicine, utilising new technologies and approaches to solving the complexity of disease states of which brain tumours are one of the most complex.
He is dedicated to research and has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals on many field-related topics.
KEVIN O'NEIL
CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON
CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL
IMPERIAL COLLEGE NHS TRUST
LONDON, UK
CATHY PRICE
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DIRECTOR, WELLCOME CENTRE FOR HUMAN NEUROIMAGING, LONDON, UK
PROFESSOR OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, UCL
Cathy Price's research program aims to establish a functional anatomical model of language that predicts how speech and reading are lost and recovered following neurological damage or developmental delay. The hypothesis is that there are multiple ways that the brain can perform each language task (degeneracy). If this is true, then the effect of damage or developmental delay will depend on whether there is a surviving system available to sustain the task. To dissociate the neuronal systems for the same task, her group uses structural and functional MRI of subjects who vary in their cognitive abilities, demographics and neurological status. This allows them to characterize individual variability in the neuronal networks of neurologically normal populations and to examine how brain damage affects cognitive abilities in patient populations. In particular, her group aims to determine how the impact of damage to one system depends on the integrity of another.
MATTHEW GLASSER
CO-INVESTIGATOR
HUMAN CONNECTOME PROJECT
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, NEURORADIOLOGY
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS, USA
Since 2005, Dr Glasser’s brain imaging research has focused on non-invasive neuroanatomy and brain imaging methods development, and he has authored or coauthored 57 peer-reviewed articles. In 2016, Dr. Glasser and his colleagues in the Human Connectome Project published a new map of human cortical areas that was featured on the cover of Nature and the front page of the New York Times. He is also known for his work on reconstructing the arcuate fasciculus with diffusion tractography, developing a technique for noninvasively mapping myelin content in the cortical grey matter based on the ratio of T1-weighted / T2-weighted MRI images, and leading the development of the brain imaging analysis software pipelines of the Human Connectome Project. His current work focuses on validation of non-invasive measures of brain connectivity in non-human primate models and translating the advances in brain imaging acquisition and analysis made by the Human Connectome Project to clinical practice as well as increasing their adoption within the research community.
HEIDI JOHANSEN-BERG
DIRECTOR, WELLCOME CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE NEUROIMAGING
NUFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Professor Johansen-Berg is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. She heads the Plasticity Group at FMRIB, and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), a multi-disciplinary facility focusing on the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for neuroscience research, along with related technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, MEG and EEG.
Her research focuses on how the brain changes with learning, experience, and damage. As well as shedding light on how the healthy brain responds to change, their work also has implications for understanding and treating disease. For example, her group are testing new methods for rehabilitation after stroke and they are assessing whether taking up exercise could slow the effects of age on the brain.
Professor Davies is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education and is a Member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of topics including comparative neuroanatomy, neurodegenerative disease, septic encephalopathy, a number of aspects of clinical anatomy and anatomy education. Professor Davies is a Past President of the Anatomical Society. He is currently President of the Institute of Anatomical Sciences and Inspector of Anatomy for Ireland. He is President of the International Federation of Anatomy Associations World Congress of Anatomy to be held in London in August 2019.
D. CERI DAVIES
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UK
PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ANATOMY ASSOCIATIONS, WORLD CONGRESS OF ANATOMY (2019)