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Professor Michael D. Jenkinson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre.

He has secured grants from the MRC, Brain Tumour Charity and NIHR. He is the chief investigator on several NIHR-funded trials, including the multi-centre ROAM trial,  STOP 'EM, SPRING and ReStart. He is a co-investigator on the NIHR funded FUTURE GB and PROSSPER trials.

He was the co-chief investigator on the NIHR fund

Mr Thomas Santarius obtained his Medical Doctor degree from the Universita Palackeho in Olomouc, Czech Republic, with multiple prizes and scholarships. As a student he was actively involved in the Velvet Revolution, which eventually ended the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Following graduation he spent over two years as a clinical and research fellow at the Children’s Hospital,

Mr Kirollos graduated from the Medical School at the University of Alexandria in Egypt in 1984. In 1987 he moved to the United Kingdom to pursue his post-graduate medical education. He received the prestigeous Royal College of Surgeons of England Hallett Prize given to the candidate with the highest score at the membership examination (FRCS Eng).

Mr Trivedi has a busy clinical practice in general neurosurgery, undertaking between 300-400 cases per year.

He has specialist interests in spinal, cerebrovascular and skull base surgery having received specialist training in these areas during his training as a Registrar in Cambridge and Felow in Miami, USA. Whilst on fellowship, he gained proficiency in minimally invasive surgery techniques and 

Mr Nick Carleton-Bland graduated from St George’s Medical School University of London with distinction; he holds a first-class honours degree from the University of Leeds and a Masters from Manchester Business School. He underwent basic surgical training in London and was appointed to a national training number in Neurosurgery in 2009. He has trained in San Francisco, Sydney and in four neurosurgi