Mr Jonathan Hyam

Mr Jonathan Hyam is a Consultant Brain & Spinal Neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Neurology in Queen Square

He specialises in treating patients with spinal conditions ( including back pain, sciatica, prolapsed disc within the neck or lower spine and spinal stenosis), cranial conditions (including Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor or facial pain/headache, hydrocephalus and brain tumours such as meningioma) and peripheral nerve conditions (including carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar nerve compression).

Mr. Hyam has received numerous national and international prizes and honours. He received America’s Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Resident Prize for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery and also University College London’s Prize in Neurosurgery. He was awarded a PhD from Oxford University in Neurosurgery, and a Diploma in Microscopic Neurosurgery from The Yasargil Neurosurgery Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

He is also an invited specialist adviser to NICE on behalf of the British Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, providing expert guidance on treatments across the country for conditions such as headache, facial pain, movement disorders, and spinal pain.

Mr Hyam was awarded the prestigious Arris & Gale Lectureship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The lectureship was established in the year 1646 and previous recipients include Nobel Laureate Sir Alexander Fleming.  Mr. Hyam’s neurosurgery research has been published in international journals including The Lancet, Nature Reviews Neurology, and The Lancet Neurology.