About Simon Cudlip

Mr Simon Cudlip BSc (Hons) MD FRCS (Eng) FRCS (SN) is a consultant neurosurgeon and spinal surgeon based in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Specialties And Sub-Specialties

Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery
Fully endoscopic pituitary surgery
Endoscopic Skull-base surgery for meningioma, craniopharyngioma, chordoma etc
Keyhole surgery for brain tumours such as glioma, meningioma, colloid cysts etc including endoscopy
Minimally invasive spinal surgery including day case spinal surgery
Cervical disc replacement surgery

Professional Profile

Simon Cudlip Graduated King’s College School of Medicine, London in 1990. During this period he also gained a BSc first class (Hons) in immunology. Following a period of training in general surgery in London he entered the neurosurgery training programme in London based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and the Atkinson Morley Hospital, London. During this period of training he completed his MD thesis in MRI imaging of peripheral nerve and published numerous papers on this topic and on MRI spectroscopy of brain tumours. On completion of his general neurosurgical training in 2003, he spent a year as a fellow at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square as the Pituitary Fellow to Mr Michael Powell. In addition to this he visited Naples and Bologna to gain experience in endoscopic pituitary surgery, and Seattle as a visiting fellow. In 2004 he was appointed as Consultant in Neurosurgery with a specialist interest in pituitary and skull-base surgery in Oxford, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the University of Oxford. Since this time he has performed over 1200 transsphenoidal operations for pituitary disease, these have been performed using a pure endoscopic technique since 2007. As a result of this Oxford has the best established nationally recognised pituitary surgical training fellowship in the UK. These endoscopic techniques have now been developed further with his colleague Puneet Plaha, and extended into surgery for intrinsic brain tumours. He has published numerous papers, book chapters and reviews on the topic of pituitary surgery, and is a tutor at the College of Surgeons of England and numerous international courses, teaching endoscopic surgical techniques. He also runs a course on cervical disc replacement surgery in Amsterdam and the UK. More recently he has travelled to Uzbekistan and India, operating and lecturing on pituitary surgery.

Current Position

Honorary Senior Lecturer
University of Oxford Medical School
Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon
GenesisCare Oxford, GenesisCare Windsor, The Wellington Hospital London,The Nuffield Manor Hospital Oxford

Qualifications

  • MB BS (Lond), Medical Degree
  • BSc (Hons) Immunology, additional degree forming part of medical degree
  • FRCS (Eng), qualification in basic surgery
  • FRCS (Surgical Neurology), qualification in neurosurgery
  • MD, postgraduate degree in medical research
  • CCST Neurosurgery, registration on GMC specialist register in neurosurgery

Neurosurgical Training

Registar (resident) at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, London.
Neurosurgery fellowship in Aachen, Germany, and one year spent in post-training fellowship in pituitary surgery at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

Research

Previous research includes: Chemical analysis of brain tumours using MRI (MR spectroscopy): Imaging of peripheral nerve using MRI (MR neurography). Currently involved in numerous prospective studies involving patients with pituitary tumours undergoing surgery and clinical studies examining minimally invasive spinal and pituitary surgery.

Specialist Interests

  • Minimally invasive (keyhole) spinal surgery
  • Pure Endoscopic Pituitary surgery
  • Extended endoscopic surgery for anterior skull base tumours and craniopharyngioma
  • Surgery for brain tumours, including endoscopic surgery for brain tumours

Recent Publications

1: Halliday J, Cudlip S. A new technique of endoscopic decompression of
suprasellar craniopharyngioma cyst. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2019
Nov;161(11):2285-2288. doi: 10.1007/s00701-019-04024-x. Epub 2019 Aug 4. PubMed
PMID: 31377958.

2: Pofi R, Gunatilake S, Macgregor V, Shine B, Joseph R, Grossman AB, Isidori AM,
Cudlip S, Jafar-Mohammadi B, Tomlinson JW, Pal A. Recovery of the
Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis After Transsphenoidal Adenomectomy for
Non-ACTH-Secreting Macroadenomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Nov
1;104(11):5316-5324. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00406. PubMed PMID: 31225871.

3: Bendor-Samuel OM, Pal A, Cudlip S, Anderson G, Salgia S, Makaya T. Pituitary
gigantism: a rare learning opportunity. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2019 Apr 4.
pii: edpract-2018-316282. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316282. [Epub ahead of
print] PubMed PMID: 30948480.

4: Olmedilla Y, Khan S, Young V, Joseph R, Cudlip S, Ansgorge O, Grossman A, Pal
A. Plurihormonal Pit-1 lineage adenoma presenting as meningitis with recurrence
after somatostatin analogue. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep. 2019 Mar
21;2019. pii: EDM180130. doi: 10.1530/EDM-18-0130. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed
PMID: 30897548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6432976.

5: Krogh J, Kistorp CN, Jafar-Mohammadi B, Pal A, Cudlip S, Grossman A.
Transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumours: frequency and predictors of
delayed hyponatraemia and their relationship to early readmission. Eur J
Endocrinol. 2018 Mar;178(3):247-253. doi: 10.1530/EJE-17-0879. Epub 2017 Dec 20.
PubMed PMID: 29263154.

6: Pereira EAC, Grandidge CA, Nowak VA, Cudlip SA. Cerebrospinal fluid leaks
after transsphenoidal surgery – Effect of a polyethylene glycol hydrogel dural
sealant. J Clin Neurosci. 2017 Oct;44:6-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2017.06.016. Epub
2017 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 28676314.

7: Tampourlou M, Ntali G, Ahmed S, Arlt W, Ayuk J, Byrne JV, Chavda S, Cudlip S,
Gittoes N, Grossman A, Mitchell R, O’Reilly MW, Paluzzi A, Toogood A, Wass JAH,
Karavitaki N. Outcome of Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas That Regrow After
Primary Treatment: A Study From Two Large UK Centers. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.
2017 Jun 1;102(6):1889-1897. doi: 10.1210/jc.2016-4061. PubMed PMID: 28323946.

About Simon Cudlip

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