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!Start date for this post is August 2025!!
To provide further sub-specialisation experience in Oncological Neurosurgery for fully trained neurosurgeons aspiring to be oncological neurosurgeons.
This is a great opportunity to get surgical experience in complex oncological neurosurgery.
The team has extensive experience and carries out a high number of awake craniotomies and also endoscopic procedures for gliomas and intraventricular tumours.
The post also offers excellent opportunities of learning by attending the neuro-oncology MDT and Neuro Oncology clinics.
The service is very research focused and running multicentre national trials and therefore research opportunities are plenty in intraoperative surgical technology, advanced brain imaging techniques for intraparenchymal tumours.
To provide 16 - 32hrs of general neurosurgery on-call cover per week.
The oncological neurosurgical work offers opportunities of up to 3 theatre lists a week, an MDT.
Two Tier ROTA, on second tier.
The Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is one of the largest teaching trusts in the country, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
The Trust works in close co-operation with the University of Oxford, and is a leading centre for research programmes in cancer, neurosciences, diabetes, genetics and many other fields.
The Trust, jointly with the University of Oxford, was recently awarded biomedical research centre status, by the Department of Health, making it one of the five pre-eminent centres in the country for translational medical research.
It has also been awarded with the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) status.
Further details are available online by searching the hospital website.
Specialty Initiated by Sir Hugh Cairns in 1938, the Oxford Regional Neurosurgery Unit has developed to offer a fully comprehensive service.
Modern theatres, two dedicated wards, ITU facilities and Paediatric beds enable the department to look after both Paediatric and adult patient with all types of neurosurgical problem.
In addition to intracranial vascular and tumour surgery, there is expertise in the fields of functional surgery, epilepsy, pituitary surgery and skull base surgery.
There is a great interest in all types of spinal disorders, including those of rheumatoid disease of the neck, and spinal tumours.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Professor Puneet Plaha Job title: Consultant - Neurosurgeon Email address: ****** Telephone number: 01865 234838 Seniority level Internship Employment type Full-time Job function Health Care Provider Industries: Hospitals and Health Care #J-18808-Ljbffr