Ms Mary Murphy

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Clinical Director of Neurosurgery,  Amethyst London, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Cleveland Clinic London 
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Highgate Hospital 
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Royal Free Hospital 
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children 

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 Sub-specialties

• Acoustic neuroma 
• Brain haemorrhage
• Brain tumours
• Brain aneurysm
• Cerebral aneurysms
• Cavernoma
• Pituitary macroadenoma
• Meningioma
• Neurovascular Disorders
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Vestibular schwannomas
• Vascular malformation
• Brain metastasis

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 Teaching posts

• Neurosurgical Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons (2010-2014)
• Surgical Tutor at the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead (2010-2012)

 Education

• Surgical Neurology, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (2005)
• Trinity College Medical School, Dublin (1995)

 Publications and conferences

• ‘Spontaneous urethral rupture'. British Journal of Urology 1998; Nov 82(5) 758-9
• ‘The contribution of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1HMRS) to clinical brain tumour diagnosis'. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2002; 16(4):329-334
• 'Neuropathological diagnostic accuracy'. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2002; 16(5):461-464
• 'Presentation of choroid plexus papilloma mimicking an extradural haematoma after head injury'. Child Nerv System (2002): 18:457-459
• 'Quantitative analysis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) of human brain tumours'. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2003; 49(2): 223-32
• 'The Dynamic Neuro'. British Journal of Neurosurgery June 2003; 17(3): 288
• 'White matter fibre tracking in patients with space occupying lesions of the brain. A new technique for neurosurgical planning'. Neuroimage 2003; 20(3): 1601-8
• 'Metabolic profiles of human brain tumours using quantitative in vivo ¹H magnetic resonance spectroscopy'. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2003; 49: 223-232
• ‘Neurosurgical Image: 'Disappearing', recurrent craniopharyngioma’. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2004; 18(1): 65
• 'Resolution of a Borden type 3 scalp arteriovenous malformation secondary to local pressure during an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion'. Neurosurgery 2005; 56(1): 192
• 'Angiography post clipping and coiling of cerebral aneurysms'. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2005; 19(3):225-8
• ‘Development of a Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Grading of Brain Tumours using in-vivo Magnetic Resonance Single Voxel Spectra’. NMR in Biomedicine 2006; 19:411-434
• ‘Giant pseudoaneurysm of the superficial temporal artery: treatment challenges and case review’. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2006; 20(3):159-61
• ‘Artefactual computed tomographic middle cerebral artery territory infarct’. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2006; 20(5):316-7
• ‘Percept, Decision, Action’. British Journal of Neurosurgery Nov 2006 20(5): 359-262
• ‘Autoenucleation: Case report and review of literature’. Irish Journal of Psychiatric Medicine 2006; 23(4): 159-160
• ‘A survival guide’. Neurosurgery Chapter. PASTEST press 2007
• ‘Preuss Resident Research Award: Maximal resection of Low Grade Intrinsic Brain Tumours using “awake” craniotomy and multiple marginal smear biopsies: Operative Complication rates and 10-year survival data’. Clinical Neurosurgery 2007. Book 53. Chapter 46
• ‘Non-contiguous multifocal Staphylococcus aureus discitis: involvement of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine’. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2009. May 5
• ‘Paediatric and adult vascular intracranial complications of sickle-cell disease’. Acta Neurochir 2010; 152(7): 1175-9
• ‘Management of infratentorial subdural hygroma complicating foramen magnum decompression: a report of three cases’. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2011; 153(5): 1123-8
• ‘The management of subarachnoid haemorrhage in London’. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2011; 25(4):534
• ‘Management of acute hydrocephalus following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: The role of serial lumbar puncture and continuous lumbar drainage’. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2011; 25(4):536
• ‘Spontaneous resolution of a symptomatic synovial cyst of the lumbar spine’. Br J Neurosurgery 2012; 26(1):123-4

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 Professional membership

• Society of British Neurology Surgeons Council
• National Specialty Advisory Committee​ (SAC) for training
• Speciality Advisory Committee for Neurosurgery

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