Specialties & Locations
King’s College NHS Foundation Trust
The fellowship was established nearly 20 years ago with almost all previous fellows securing consultant posts in the UK or abroad. The fellowship is for one year during which the candidates obtain first-hand experience in adult and paediatric deep brain stimulation and epilepsy as well as exposure to neurosurgery for intractable pain. There is a very active academic programme to which the fellow is expected to contribute, including presenting at national/ international meetings and publishing peer reviewed papers.
Nottingham University Hospitals
A comprehensive neuro-oncology post-CCT fellowship within a high volume neuro-oncology centre. Regular exposure to all specialist neuro-oncology techniques including 5ALA, awake craniotomy, intra-operative electrophysiology, intra-operative ultrasound, intra-operative MRI and navigated tractography. Close links with neurosurgery translational research groups and opportunities for laboratory and imaging research with world leading MRI facilities. Strong participation in clinical trials and opportunities to set up in house trials. Registrar lead clinics and lists (depending on experience level).
Contact: Stuart Smith
King’s College NHS Foundation Trust
Contact: Keyoumars Ashkan
Walton Centre
12 month neurosurgical oncology fellowship working in a standalone neurosurgery centre. Exposure to all aspects of neuro-oncology surgery including glioma, meningioma, metastases and rarer tumours (pineal, intraventricular). Surgical techniques cover awake craniotomy, fibre tracking, iMRI, iUS, Gliolan and ventricular endoscopy. Opportunity to participate in brain tumour clinical trials and research within the academic department. Suitable for post-CCT or other senior trainee. Approved for training.
Addenbrookes Hospital
This fellowship provides exposure to all aspects of neurovascular surgery. The centre deals with a high volume of surgical cases. The fellow will work closely with a team of 4 vascular consultants who participate in a dedicated comprehensive regional neurovascular rota.
Fellows are encouraged to participate in audit and research activities.
Contact: Rikin Trivedi
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Skull Base and Neurovascular Surgery
This is a comprehensive skull base and neurovascular fellowship with training in the pre, intra and post-operative aspects of the subspeciality. The fellow will attend sub-speciality clinics, MDTs and theatre lists with at least 2-3 lists a week with skull base and neurovascular cases. Complex approaches are routinely performed including orbital approaches, clinoidectomies, middle fossa (Kawase), infratemporal fossa, far lateral, pre-sigmoid (translabyrinthine, transtententorial) and combined petrosectomies. The close working with allied subspecialities provide broad exposure to a range of complex cases including meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, orbital tumours, sinonasal malignancies, chordomas, chondrosarcomas and the facility to learn advanced reconstructive strategies. The neurovascular component provides training in all aspects of neurovascular surgery including cavernomas, aneurysms, AVMs, spinal and cranial dural fistulas and EC-IC bypass techniques
Contact: Sanjeeva Jeyaretna
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
This is a 12-month comprehensive RCS approved neurovascular fellowship which provides the fellow to exposure to a high volume of surgical cases and has opportunities to spend time observing in the angio lab.
The fellow will work closely with a team of 4 consultants who participate in a dedicated neurovascular on-call rota.
Participation in audit and research is encouraged.
Contact: Kennan Deniz
The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
The senior clinical fellow leads the paediatric neurosurgical team, working closely with the four consultants and our specialist nurses. One of the local neurosurgical trainees attached to the team at any one time; gaining experience in paediatric neurosurgery as part of the their general neurosurgical training.
The Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow has the largest paediatric neurosurgical unit in Scotland and do approximately 300 operative procedures in children each year. The fellowship provides a broad experience in all aspects of paediatric neurosurgery, including craniofacial surgery and selective dorsal rhizotomy.
The senior clinical fellow participates in the consultant on call rota, supervising the resident neurosurgical registrar who is first on call. A paediatric neurosurgical consultant is available to provide support and assistance. This is a unique opportunity to gain experience in teaching junior trainees and of acting as a consultant but having additional support when needed. The fellowship has been running since 2013 and all previous fellows have successfully obtained consultant posts in paediatric neurosurgery in the UK or elsewhere in Europe.
Contact: Emer Campbell
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Paediatric Neurosurgery
Posts per year: 4, start date usually summer but flexible
GOSH is the UKs largest paediatric neurosurgical centre undertaking around 1200 surgical cases per annum. We are a UK referral centre for epilepsy surgery, craniofacial, vein of Galen, SDR and fetal surgery among others. This is a general paediatric neurosurgery fellowship with exposure to surgery, outpatient clinic and MDT training in paediatric neuro-oncology, epilepsy, spinal dysraphism, neurovascular disease, craniosynostosis, spasticity, cranio-cervical junction, hydrocephalus and trauma. We run a busy academic programme and expect fellows to produce papers and present at international conferences during their year (funding is available). The fellowship is aimed at peri/post CCT neurosurgeons planning for a career in paediatric neurosurgery, and is open to UK and overseas candidates.
Contact: Gregg James
Craniofacial
Posts per year: 1, start date usually summer but flexible
GOSH is the largest craniofacial unit in the UK by case volume, usually undertaking around 200 transcranial procedures per year. The bulk of the workload is craniosynostosis (syndromic and single suture), but we also deal with other complex congenital anomalies such as basal encephalocoele and craniopagus twins, as well as skull base/facial tumours and post-trauma reconstruction. We are the first unit in the UK to undertake endoscopic craniosynostosis surgery and have performed 30 such cases this year alone. GOSH also uses specialized distraction including springs and frontofacial RED frame. We have an allied research team (FaceValue) and encourage fellows to participate in research. The fellowship is open to neurosurgeons as well as plastic, OMFS and ENT surgeons
Contact: Gregg James or Juling Ong
Paediatric Spine
Posts per year: 1, start date usually summer but flexible
This fellowship is open to orthopaedic and neurosurgical trainees and is based predominantly in the orthopaedic spinal department. The majority of exposure is to deformity correction surgery but there are joint neurosurgical cases for complex dysraphism and syndromic patients (e.g. Moquino, achondroplasia etc), as well as cranio-cervical junction disease. This may be of interest to a select group of neurosurgical trainees who wish to undertake complex spinal surgery in children.
Contact: Dominic Thompson
Alder Hey
This is a senior fellows post aimed at trainees coming to the end of or having finished their neurosurgical training, who have a specific interest in paediatric neurosurgery. The post will be based at Alder Hey neurosurgical department and involves working with the 6 Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeons.
This service provides tertiary paediatric neurosurgical cover for children from Merseyside, Cheshire, parts of Lancashire, Shropshire, Isle of Man, North Wales and Northern Ireland. The total population base is over 5 million.
Contact: Conor Mallucci
Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas Texas, USA
The Paediatric Neurological Surgery Fellowship programme provides excellent subspecialty training in paediatric neurosurgery to trainees wishing to develop a career in paediatric neurosurgery. This fellowship encompasses all aspects of paediatric neurosurgery, including surgical treatment of disorders of cerebrospinal fluid circulation, congenital dysraphic and craniofacial malformations, brain and spinal cord tumours, epilepsy and movement disorders, peripheral nerve pathology, complex spinal pathology and trauma. We strive to develop leaders in the specialty who will provide compassionate care to patients in the United States and abroad. Fellows who graduate from the programme can expect to feel they have developed a solid grounding in the field and be prepared for starting as a paediatric neurosurgeon.
Fellows will be expected to be directly involved in patient management and surgical cases whilst working closely with ANPs/PAs who also help support the service. Expect a close working relationship with the faculty and the opportunity to develop research projects. It will also provide the chance to develop relationships with peers and colleagues for future collaborations.
The Dallas Fellowship is one of the longest running paediatric fellowship programmes. Alumni have gone onto attending/consultant positions in the USA and internationally, including the UK.
The Dallas Metroplex is a large, diverse city with opportunities to enjoy Texas culture and also work within a different health system. It is a bustling city and you will never run out of activities to do or food to try. All major professional sports are represented in the area and it is a friendly collegiate working environment.
Previous alumni are happy to be contacted to share their experience with undertaking a fellowship in the US.
Duration: 1-2 years
Qualifications: Post CCT/CESR Neurosurgery and FRCS(SN) or equivalent
USMLE and ECFMG
Program Director Dale Swift, MD. Email: Dale.swifta@utsw.edu
Division Director Bradley Weprin, md mhcm, Email: Bradley.weprin@utsw.edu
Contact: Teresa Lombardi, MSHCA, CPA Clinical Practice Manager – Pediatric Neurosurgery Teresa.Lombardi@UTSouthwestern.edu (214) 456-6639
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Skull Base and Neurovascular Surgery
This is a comprehensive skull base and neurovascular fellowship with training in the pre, intra and post-operative aspects of the subspeciality. The fellow will attend sub-speciality clinics, MDTs and theatre lists with at least 2-3 lists a week with skull base and neurovascular cases. Complex approaches are routinely performed including orbital approaches, clinoidectomies, middle fossa (Kawase), infratemporal fossa, far lateral, pre-sigmoid (translabyrinthine, transtententorial) and combined petrosectomies. The close working with allied subspecialities provide broad exposure to a range of complex cases including meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, orbital tumours, sinonasal malignancies, chordomas, chondrosarcomas and the facility to learn advanced reconstructive strategies. The neurovascular component provides training in all aspects of neurovascular surgery including cavernomas, aneurysms, AVMs, spinal and cranial dural fistulas and EC-IC bypass techniques
Contact: Sanjeeva Jeyaretna
Salford Royal Hospital
The Neurosurgical Clinical Fellowship in Skull Base provides an excellent opportunity to join the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences (MCCN) and gain experience in all aspects of skull base neurosurgery. The successful applicant will support the clinical service of Neurosurgery at Salford Royal including on-call commitments. The post of skull base fellow is designed as a 1 year post suitable for a senior neurosurgical trainee wishing to gain experience in this particular subspecialty. It is envisaged as a post appropriate for someone prior to taking up a consultant post, in the UK or abroad, with an interest in skull base neurosurgery. The successful candidate to the post of skull base fellow will become part of a team of 24 neurosurgical trainees. This includes neurosurgical specialist trainees on run through training (ST1-8), four other subspecialty fellows (neuro-oncology, vascular, pituitary and complex spine), and 3 research fellows who join in the on-call rota. The skull base fellow will be attached for the entire year to the Rutherford/King/Hammerbeck-Ward/Pathmanaban firm. Also on the firm will be at least one other neurosurgical registrar, usually more junior than the skull base fellow. Their commitments will include the care of the firm’s patients on the ward, in theatre and in outpatients. Approximately 150 skull base cases are operated on each year in Manchester. This includes about 50 vestibular schwannomas, involving a team of four neurosurgeons (Mr Scott Rutherford, Mrs Charlotte Hammerbeck-Ward, Mr Omar Pathmanaban and Professor Andrew King), and two ENT Surgeons (Mr Simon Freeman and Prof Simon Lloyd). We have two dedicated skull base nurses working with us and a skull base MDT co-ordinator, and aim to provide a comprehensive skull base service. Outside of theatres, Mr Rutherford, Mrs Hammerbeck-Ward, Mr Pathmanaban and Professor King run regular skull base outpatient clinics. There is a fortnightly skull base MDT at which approximately 100 cases will be discussed. There is also a weekly Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Clinic, the largest in the UK.
Addenbrookes Hospital
This fellowship provides an excellent training opportunity for post CCT neurosurgical or orthopaedic trainees with an interest in spinal surgery. The fellow will work closely with a team of 8 spinal consultants (6 neurosurgical, 2 orthopaedic), and will gain exposure to a wide range of spinal pathologies and procedures, including cervical, thoracic and lumbar stenosis, trauma, tumour, including intradural and MSCC, and paediatric deformity. The unit has a strong tradition of utilising minimally invasive techniques and navigation. Fellows are encouraged to participate in audit and research activities, with the expectation being that at least one clinical paper will have been prepared and submitted by the end of the year-long fellowship.
Contact: Rikin Trivedi
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Paediatric Spine
Posts per year: 1, start date usually summer but flexible
This fellowship is open to orthopaedic and neurosurgical trainees and is based predominantly in the orthopaedic spinal department. The majority of exposure is to deformity correction surgery but there are joint neurosurgical cases for complex dysraphism and syndromic patients (e.g. Morquio, achondroplasia etc), as well as cranio-cervical junction disease. This may be of interest to a select group of neurosurgical trainees who wish to undertake complex spinal surgery in children.
Contact: Dominic Thompson
Department of Spinal Surgery (Orthopaedic & Neurological spinal surgery), Swansea Bay University Health Board, South Wales
The Spinal Unit and Trauma and Orthopaedic Department is based at Morriston Hospital. It consists of a 98-bedded Unit including a ring fenced clean ward for elective work. A separate unspecialised spinal unit in Neath Port Talbot is also being established.
6 Consultant Spinal Surgeons
Mr N Verghese, Clinical Lead Spinal Surgery
Mr R Kett-White, Consultant Neurosurgeon
Miss I Collins, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
Mr B Boreham, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
Mr. Sivasamy, Associate Specialist Neurosurgery
Mr. Michael O’Malley, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
The team comprises of 1 senior clinical fellow (this post), 1 research MOSS fellow, 1 HST, 1 SHO, 5 spinal nurse practitioners, 2 Physician associates and 1 spinal surgical care practitioner attached to the spinal unit. There are a further 8 higher surgical trainees, 4 Senior Clinical Fellows, 2 FP2’s, 3 existing Clinical Fellows and 6 Deanery trainees attached to the Trauma and Orthopaedic department. The on call Trauma and Orthopaedic tiers cover unscheduled/ emergency spinal referrals and admissions. The senior spinal fellow does not participate in the Trauma and Orthopaedic on call rota. If required, spinal admissions are referred onwards to the on call spinal surgical consultant.
The Spinal Service in Morriston Hospital cover all aspects of elective adult spinal surgery for the treatment of degenerative conditions and adult deformity. The unit also manages spinal trauma, tumour (intradural and MSCC) and infection. A wide range of open and contemporary minimally invasive procedures are performed from occiput to sacrum via posterior, lateral and anterior approaches. The unit has commissioned the first Spinal 3D navigation system in South Wales and one of only a few within the NHS. The successful candidate will therefore have excellent exposure to a wide range of spinal pathology, management strategies and surgical procedures/ techniques.
The senior clinical fellow will be trained appropriate to their level of experience but it is expected that the fellow will be at an ST3+ equivalent level. The fellowship would be appropriate for peri-CCT trainees in the final 1-2 years of training prior to Consultant appointment.
As the senior clinical fellow you will be expected to contribute significantly to the running of the department including leading the daily spinal ward round attended by the Spinal nurse practitioners, Physician Associates and junior doctors. You will also be expected to participate in the research projects led by the MOSS fellow and lead on audit projects of the department.
You will have daily theatre access and therefore achieve unparalleled operative experience. The department is unique in that it has full integration of orthopaedic spinal fellowship and neurosurgery trained consultants working together hence with a variety of skill sets.
Sheffield
A conservative and evidence based spinal team made up of seven orthopaedic surgeons and one neurosurgeon; five of the adult consultants also job-share with the paediatric spine service. This offers the fellow a 40:60 ratio of time spent doing paediatric vs adult work.
As a major trauma centre with helicopter landing bay outside the Emergency Department we receive a large number of traumatic spinal injuries. There is a steady oncological workload (50-100 cases per annum), multi-disciplinary spinal infection service, adult scoliosis service, along with the usual adult degenerative practice. The fellow will usually operate 2-3 days per week, attend the MDT and 2 half day clinics. This leaves 0.5-1 day for admin / research each week. The spinal team have quarterly research meetings to support the fellow and others within the department to progress.
The paediatric unit has a very active scoliosis centre, with full neurophysiology service. 2-3 scoliosis cases occur each week (1-2 during COVID-19) and these are shared with a paediatric spine fellow who is on the on-call rota. This is a true fellowship with real mentorship and supervision.
Contact: Contact: Neil Chiverton
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Contact: Julian Cahill
