Thomas Santarius MD, PhD, FRCS(SN)

Mr. Thomas Santarius obtained his Medical Doctor degree from the Universita Palackeho in Olomouc, Czech Republic, with multiple prizes and scholarships. As a student he was actively involved in the Velvet Revolution, which eventually ended the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Following graduation, he spent over two years as a clinical and research fellow at the Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University in Boston, USA before moving to the UK in 1997.

Mr. Santarius completed neurosurgical training at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge where in 2012 he was appointed a consultant. Apart from Cambridge he underwent additional neurosurgical training at the Atkinson’s Morley Hospital, St George’s University in London, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, and Montpellier in France.