Omar PathmanabanDr. Pathmanaban is Professor of Neurosurgery in the Division of Neuroscience at the University of Manchester and Clinical Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Salford Royal Hospital, UK. He s an internationally renowned skull base surgeon and is referred complex cases from across the UK and internationally. He trained in London, Manchester, Oxford, and Toronto. He was the Marjorie Newsome visiting fellow at the Barrow Neurological Institute, USA following the award of the Norman Dott Gold Medal for the most outstanding performance amongst graduating Neurosurgeons in the UK and Ireland in 2015. He is a popular invited speaker on the global skull base circuit and is on the faculty of numerous advanced microsurgery and endoscopic training courses. He has a PhD in molecular and cellular Neuro-Oncology and is group-leader of the Surgical Neuro-Oncology Manchester (SNO-Man) Laboratory, where he works as part of a team focused on translational tumor microenvironment research, including a program of work on inflammatory biomarkers and therapeutic targets in vestibular Schwannoma. He is past-secretary and current treasurer of the British Skull Base Society and has served as the Skull Base Lead for the council of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. He sits on the Clinical Neurosciences Council of The Royal Society of Medicine and is on the panel of question writers for The Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations in Neurosurgery. Read More Read Less