Mr Neil Kitchen details
Telephone:
GMC/GDC number:
3124004
Specialisms:
Brain tumours
Cavernoma
Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain
Brain tumour surgery
Gamma knife surgery
Intracranial microsurgery
Radiosurgery
Professional background
Mr Neil Kitchen is a senior consultant neurosurgeon at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery with over 30 years of experience of consultant surgical practice. He is a leading neurosurgeon in skull base surgery, neuro-oncology, cavernomas, and facial pain. He is also the medical director of the Queen Square Gamma Knife Unit and sees patients at the Queen Square (Gamma Knife) Radiosurgery Centre. The Gamma Knife Unit treats over 600 patents per annum with a wide variety of pathologies, including metastatic tumours, meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, arteriovenous malformations, cavernomas, and facial pain.
Mr Kitchen completed his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge, qualifying in 1985. He also holds a BSc in the History of Medicine from the Wellcome Institute at University College London. He is a member of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), the General Medical Council and The Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He is the past president of the SBNS and currently the assessor of the national neurosurgical examination.
Research interests
Brain tumour surgery, intracranial microsurgery, trigeminal neuralgia, cavernoma and radiosurgery (Gamma Knife)
Publications
Arteriovenous Malformations: Congenital or Acquired Lesions?
Tasiou A, Tzerefos C, Alleyne CH Jr, Boccardi E, Karlsson B, Kitchen N, Spetzler RF, Tolias CM, Fountas KN.
World Neurosurg. 2020 Feb;134:e799-e807. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.11.001. Epub 2019 Nov 9.
Workforce planning in neurosurgery.
Sinha S, McKenna G, Whitfield P, Thomson S, Kitchen N; UK Neurosurgery Specialist Advisory Committee on Training in Neurosurgery and the Society of British Neurological Surgeons.
Br J Neurosurg. 2020 Feb;34(1):3-8. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2019.1692786. Epub 2019 Nov 21.
Academic neurosurgery in the UK: present and future directions.
Waqar M, Davies BM, Zakaria R, Barone DG, Kolias AG, Yu KK, Ellenbogen JR, Brennan PM, Kotter MRN, Gray MP, King AT, Turner C, Kitchen N, May P, Jenkinson MD, Hutchinson PJ.
Postgrad Med J 2019;524-530,
The impact of route of diagnosis on survival in patients with glioblastoma.
Kosmin M, Solda' F, Wilson E, Kitchen N, Rees J, Fersht N.
Br J Neurosurg. 2018 Dec;32(6):628-630. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2018.1436693. Epub 2018 Feb 9.
The relationship between neurosurgical instruments and disease transmission: Society of British Neurological Surgeons perspective.
Hutchinson PJA, White B, Helmy A, Thorne J, Jenkins A, Kerr R, Kitchen N, May P; Society of British Neurological Surgeons.
Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Jun;135(6):969-971. doi: 10.1007/s00401-018-1858-3. Epub 2018 May 3.
Characteristics of Unruptured Compared to Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: A Multicenter Case-Control Study.
Hostettler IC, Alg VS, Shahi N, Jichi F, Bonner S, Walsh D, Bulters D, Kitchen N, Brown MM, Houlden H, Grieve J, Werring DJ; Genetics and Observational Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (GOSH) Study investigators.
Neurosurgery. 2018 Jul 1;83(1):43-52. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyx365.
Association of functional MMP-2 gene variant with intracranial aneurysms: case-control genetic association study and meta-analysis.
Alg VS, Ke X, Grieve J, Bonner S, Walsh DC, Bulters D, Kitchen N, Houlden H, Werring DJ; Genetics and Observational Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (GOSH) Study Investigators.
Br J Neurosurg. 2018 Jun;32(3):255-259. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2018.1427213. Epub 2018 Jan 15.