Special interests
- Intracranial tumours
- Surgical management of pituitary disease
Training
- Senior registrar Neurosurgery, 1995-1996
- The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery; The Hospital for Sick Children, Gt Ormond Street; Charing Cross Hospital, London
- FRCS (SN) – 1996
- MD – Newcastle, 1995 Registrar Neurosurgery, 1988-1994 Newcastle/Middlesbrough
- FRCS (Lond) – 1988
- MBBS (Hons) – Newcastle 1983
- B.Med. SCi (Hons) – Newcastle 1980