Vestibular Schwannomas

Professor Lloyd is a Consultant Skull Base and Auditory Implant Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital. He is Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of Manchester and his research interests include the natural history of vestibular schwannomas and neurofibromatosis type 2. He is widely published in his field and is frequently invited to speak both nationally and internationally. He holds a number of high profile positions including secretary to the British Society of Otology and secretary to the British Skull Base Society. He sits on the Royal Society of Medicine Otology section council and is a member of the European Academy of Otology and Neuro-Otology and the Politzer Society. He has recently been awarded the Dalby Prize by the Royal Society of Medicine. This prize recognises the individual that has made the greatest contribution to otological research over the last 5 years. He is also the director of the UKs leading advanced otology course and skull base course. He has been deputy editor of the Mediterranean Journal of Advanced Otology and is on the editorial board of Cochlear Implants International. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers and 14 book chapters. He has also edited two books. He regularly reviews submissions to peer reviewed medical journals including the Lancet, Otology and Neurotology, Cochlear Implants International and Clinical Otolaryngology amongst others. He is an examiner for the Intercollegiate FRCS(ORL-HNS) examinations.

Dr. 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 is 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.

Professor Evans is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Manchester. He is one of the world’s leading experts on breast cancer genetics and Neurofibromatosis type 2. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator and has published over 760 peer reviewed research publications; 276 as first or senior author. He has published over 126 reviews and chapters and has had a book published by Oxford University Press on familial cancer. He has an ISI web of knowledge H-index of 100 and a google scholar H-index of 139 having only published his first article in 1990. In the last 5 years he has raised over £35 million in grants for multicentre and local studies – approximately £31 million to Manchester. He is Chief Investigator on two (£1.59 & £1 million) NIHR program grant (2009-2014 and 2016-2020) on breast cancer risk prediction and also has an NIHR RfPB grant as CI (2011). He has led a successful bid for a Nationally funded NF2 service (£7.5 million pa) that started in 2010. He is theme lead and cancer lead on the All Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre worth £28.5 Million (2016-2020). He also leads the NICE Familial Breast Cancer Guideline Development Group.