• Consultant in neurosurgery/stereotactic radiosurgery

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Matthias Radatz became Clinical Director Of the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in June 2013.

He was elected as Chairman of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG (Clinical Reference Group) on the 12th July 2013. He qualified in 1991 and for three years worked as a neurosurgical trainee in the Krankenhaus Neukoelln, Berlin in Germany.

This was a busy teaching hospital with its own Casualty and Trauma Centre. During this time he was responsible for the Neuro-ITU and developed a special interest in subarachnoid haemorrhage, plus gaining experience in stereotactic and functional neurosugery.

In February 1994 he took up an appointment as Registrar in the Neurosurgical University Department here at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. He extended his experience to include Stereotactic Radiosurgery using the Gamma-Knife and gained promotion to Senior Registrar in May 1995.

In June 1996 he returned to Berlin, to the Krankenhaus Neukoelln as Senior Registrar and was involved in establishing Image Guided Neurosurgery in his unit.

In October 1997 he was appointed as Specialist Registrar in the Neurosugical Department, Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. This was a post he sought in order to develop further his interests in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.

He was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999. He has a special interest in both Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery, here at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.