Mr Greg James

Greg James is Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Associate Professor at University College London (UCL). His major clinical and research interests are in neurovascular disease, craniosynostosis and hydrocephalus in children and young people. Greg has the largest moyamoya surgical practice in the UK and undertakes over 20 revascularisation surgeries per year, as well as microsurgical procedures for aneurysm, AVM and cavernoma in children. He is Lead Clinician for the UK’s only children-specific Gamma Knife service at UCLH. Greg is a core member of the GOSH Craniofacial Unit, which undertakes over 200 transcranial surgeries in a typical year. He was the first neurosurgeon in the UK to introduce minimally invasive endoscopic strip craniectomy with post-operative helmeting (ESCH) for craniosynostosis, which is now a rapidly growing service at GOSH.
His PhD was in neural-glial signalling in physiological and pathophysiological states. In 2019, he was awarded a MRC Clinical Academic Partnership Grant to undertake translational laboratory based research to study the neurobiological substrate of ischaemic brain injury in children at UCL. He also is involved in clinical trials, including the CARE cavernoma trial and ENLIVEN trial for post-haemorrhagic hydrocephalus in pre-term infants, as well as regularly publishing clinical research in his areas of interest. He is research lead in the Department of Neurosurgery at GOSH, and Paediatrics Lead on the Society of British Neurosurgeons Academic Committee.
He is Lead for the Panel of Question Writers for Neurosurgery Fellowship (FRCS) examination as well as an Examiner. He is the Assigned Educational Supervisor and Fellowship Programme Director in the Department of Neurosurgery at GOSH, and Lead for ‘Brain School’, a long-established and successful independent neurosurgical educational series. He is a member of the London Neurosurgery Training Programme Management Committee and the Intercollegiate Examinations Board, as well as a member of the Executive Board of the European Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery.