Become a member
To apply for SBNS membership click the link below and visit our application page.
Patient Information
SBNS is unable to give medical advice or recommend neurosurgeons. Please use an appropriate support group or your GP.
Become a Neurosurgeon
The management of neurosurgical patients requires excellent medical and surgical skills, a career in Neurosurgery offers many challenges and rewards.
Contact the SBNS Office
Follow the link below to use our contact form or to find the appropriate telephone numbers.
Trustees and Directors
The SBNS Board of Trustees have legal and juduciary responsibility for the Society. The Officers are elected by the voting members of the Society and each individual serves as a Trustee for four years.
Council
Council advises the Board of Trustees and plays a pivotal role in determining the strategic and professional direction of the Society, ensuring it remains responsive to the needs and views of its membership.
Council comprises:
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The Officers of the Association
- Elected Council Members
- Ex officio members
- Invited guests - Sub-specialty Leads and RCS College Representative
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Council meets 4 times a year and is chaired by the President
Officers
- President
Prof. Peter Hutchinson 2024-2026 Sept - Immediate Past President
Prof. Peter Whitfield 2024-2025 Sept - Vice President (Global Affairs)
Mr Nigel Mendoza 2022 - 2024 Oct - Treasurer and Chair of The Neurosurgical Foundation (TNF)
Mr Surajit Basu 2023 - 2027 Jan - Honorary Secretary
Crispin Wigfield 2023 - 2027 Sept - Meetings and Communications Secretary
Ms Samatha Hettige 2023 - 2025 Dec
Elected Council Members
- Mr Jake Timothy 2024-2028
- Professor Keyoumars Ashkan 2023-2028
- Mr Pragnesh Bhatt 2023-2028
- Ms Charlotte Hammerbeck-Ward 2023-2028 Nov
- Prof. Mark Wilson 2023-2028 Nov
- Mr Simon Cudlip 2023-2028 April
- Mr Rikin Trivedi 2022-2027 July
- Mr Chris Barrett 2021-2026 Sept
- Mr Lewis Thorne 2021-2026 Sept
- Ms Kathrin Whitehouse 2021-2026 Sept
Ex-Officio Members
- Chairman of National Neurosurgical Audit Programme (NNAP)
Mr Adel Helmy, 2022-2026 Feb - Chairman of SAC in Neurosurgery
Mr Donald MacArthur, 2023-2027 Feb - Chairman of Intercollegiate Examination Board
Mr Surajit Basu 2024-2027 Oct - Chairman of the SBNS Academic Committee
Prof. Michael Jenkinson - Editor of the British Journal Neurosurgery
Mr Nitin Mukerji, appointed July 2021
- EANS/WFNS Reps
Ms Tina Karabatsou, 2019 - 2025 Oct
Mr Sanjeeva Jeyaretna 2024-2028 Sept - NICE Co-Ordinator
Prof. Nihal Gurusinghe MBE appointed, 2011 Oct - Trainee Representative (Chair of the BNTA)
Ms M Pitsika, 2022-2024 October - Equality, Diversity, Bullying, Mentoring & Undermining in the Workplace Rep
Prof I Kamaly-Asl April 2018 - Medico Legal Advisor
Mr Alistair Jenkins 2023 -2025 Sept - Lay Representative
Vacant
Invited Members
Sub-Specialty Leads
- Paediatrics - Mr A Sinha
- CSF - Mr Richard Edwards
- Functional - Mr Julian Evans
- Vascular - Mr Raghu Vindlacheruvu
- Trauma - Prof. Mark Wilson OBE
- Oncology - Mr Andrew Brodbelt
- Skull base - Mr Omar Pathmanaban
- Spine - Mr Joshi George
Royal College Reps
- RCSEng Council Represenative
Prof. Ian Kamaly-Asl June 2023 -2027 - RCSI Representative
Prof. Ciaran Bolger - RCSEd Representative
Mr Likhith Alakandy - N. Ireland Representative
Mr Philip Weir - RCPS Glasgow/ Welsh Rep
Mr Ravindra Nannapaneni
SBNS Academic and R & D Committee
- Chair - Prof. Michael Jenkinson
- BNRG lead - Prof. S Price
- Mentorship lead - Prof. R Brownstone
- BNTA academic rep - Mr S Momin
- BNTRC chair - Ms S Venturini
- NANSIG representative
- Basic and translational science lead - Prof. W Gray
- Basic and translational science lead - Prof. R Mathew
- Clinical trials lead - Mr P Brennan
- Clinical trials lead - Ms C Mahon
- Med tech/innovation/health tech/robotics lead - Prof. P Palha
- Med tech/innovation/health tech/robotics lead - Mr H Marcus
- Associate surgical specialty lead - Mr M Cearns
- Associate surgical specialty lead - Mr R Piper
- Research manager - Mrs C Turner