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Availability:
Spire Murrayfield
Tuesday: 12.00pm – 5.30pm Thursday 6.00pm-8.00pm
Contact:
Private secretary:
Julie Brownridge, Lorna MacIntosh
Referral not required but preferred.
Tel: 0131 374 4041
Email: info@edinburghneurosurgeons.co.uk
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Mr Jothy Kandasamy
BSc. Hons. MBChB, FRCS (Neurosurgery)
Practising at:
Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh
Specialties:
- Neurosurgery
- Brain Tumours
- Hydrocephalus
- Spinal Surgery
Special clinical interests:
- Minimal Access Neurosurgery for the brain & spine
- Endoscopic Neurosurgery
- Back pain
- Neck Pain
- Spinal Disc Prolapse
- Degenerative Spine/ Spondylosis/ stenosis
- Brain Tumours
- Paediatric Neurosurgery
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Neurosurgery for Spasticity including rhizotomy
- Hydrocephalus
- Pain Management of Facial pain
Research interests:
- Minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques
- Hydrocephalus
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Neuro oncology
Current NHS and /or university posts:
- Consultant Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh
- Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
- NRS Career Research Fellow, NHS Scotland
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Year of first medical qualification:
- 2000
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons
- International Society of Paediatric Neurosurgeons
- Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
