Dr G Narenthiran

Dr G. Narenthiran is a senior consultant neurosurgeon at the National Neuroscience Institute.

He read medicine at the University of Aberdeen Medical School, UK, and completed his externship and research elective at the University of Washington School of Medicine. As a medical student, he was actively involved in research and pioneered the use of the internet for neurosurgical education. While he was a medical student he was a Welcome Summer Research Fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, and was awarded an Invited Research Fellow at the Departments of Neurosurgery at Singapore General Hospital and soon after qualifying at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

He undertook his neurosurgical residency at the University Hospital Southampton, during which he was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington.

Dr Narenthiran completed fellowships at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, and Charing Cross Hospital, London, and a visiting fellowship at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Tennessee.

He has served as a consultant in adult neurosurgery at The Royal London Hospital and the Manchester Clinical Neurosciences Centre, Salford Royal Hospital, and as a consultant in paediatric neurosurgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the Royal Bristol Children’s Hospital, and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Dr Narenthiran is a Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State University, USA.

Dr Narenthiran has advised on the use of information technology for neurosurgery education to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), International Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) and the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS).

• Charing Cross Hospital, London
• St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
• Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK
• University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK
• Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
• University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
• Aberdeen University Medical School, Aberdeen, UK

• Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Malaga, Spain
• Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
• Life-time Honoured Member, American Academic of Orthopedic and Neurological Surgeons
• Editor-in-chief, Annals of Neurosurgery
• Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
• International Advisory Board, Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Moderator-in-chief, Neurosurgery Research Listserv
• Former Chairman, World Federation of Neurological Societies Young Neurosurgeons’ Forum
• Former Committee Member, Education Committee, World Federation of Neurological Societies Young Neurosurgeons’ Forum
• Committee Members, Informational and Technology Committee Meeting, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (USA)
• Advisor, Global Initiatives Committee, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (USA)
• Former Guest Co-editor, Neurosurgery Focus
• Former Guest Co-editor, AANS Neurosurgeon

• Hydrocephalus
• Neurotrauma

• Co-local Principal Investigator (Manchester), RescueICP Trial
• Co-local Principal Investigator (Southampton), Clear III Trial

For a full list of publications visit: Ganesalingam Narenthiran - Google Scholar

Narenthiran G. Letter to the Editor. Distribution of sex among patients who underwent PFD versus PFD and occipital fusion for CM-I with syringomyelia. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2025 Aug 22;36(5):668. doi: 10.3171/2025.5.PEDS2596. PMID: 40845394.

Bailey D, Wilding H, Ganesalingam N, Rizk E. Perioperative Management of Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation in Brain Tumor Surgery: A Survey of International Practices. World Neurosurg. 2024 Oct;190:e271-e280. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.07.111. Epub 2024 Jul 20. PMID: 39038643.

Harbaugh RE, Asher AL, Cockroft KM, Knightly J, Narenthiran G. Introduction. Evolution of the Science of Practice. Neurosurg Focus. 2020 May 1;48(5):E1. doi: 10.3171/2020.2.FOCUS20128. PMID: 32357318.

Tamburrini G, Mattogno PP, Narenthiran G, Caldarelli M, Di Rocco C. Cavum septi pellucidi cysts: a survey about clinical indications and surgical management strategies. Br J Neurosurg. 2016 Sep 13:1-4

Olivia Francies, Dimitrios Paraskevopoulos, Ganesalingam Narenthiran, Kim Piper, Amen Sibtain, Curtis Offiah, Anant S Krishnan. Pineal and leptomeningeal metastases from a parotid carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma. BJR|case reports 2 (1) pp: 20150279 (2016)

Ganesalingam Narenthiran, Chistopher Parks, Conor Mallucci, Benedetta Pettorini. Management of Chiari I malformation in children: effectiveness of intra-operative ultrasound scanning for tailoring foramen magnum decompression. Childs Nerv Syst. 2015 Aug;31(8):1371-6.

Narenthiran G, Boop F. Print and electronic books and journals. Childs Nerv Syst. 2016 Jan;32(1):3-6. doi: 10.1007/s00381-015-2696-4. Epub 2015 Apr 10. PMID: 25861050.

Clinical features of central isolated foot drop: case report and review of the literature. Surg Neurol Int, 2011; 2: 27

Ellamushi H, Narenthiran G, Kitchen ND. Internet and neurosurgery: is the current information available on the Internet useful for patients and their family. Ann R Coll Surg Eng, 2001, 83: 292-294

Nelson Godoy, Narenthiran Ganesalingam, Luca Remonda, Joachim Weis, RW Seiler. Pediatric Extra-axial cavernoma of the cerebellopontine Angle Presenting with intralesional hemorrhage. Journal of Neurovascular Disease, August 1998

Fanning GR, Ganesalingam N, Davies SN. origin of post-depolarization hyperpolarization in a grease-gap recording preparation. Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie 1994; 327: 355-62 [peer-reviewed paper]

Ganesalingam N. Role of fibrin degradation products in angiogenesis and wound healing. BSc (MedSci) (Hons) Thesis, Department of Pathology, University of Aberdeen, June 1993 [Dissertation]

Narenthiran G, Nader-Sepahi A. ICP bolt. In: Neurosurgery tricks of the trade. Eds.: Berta SC, Levy ML, Nader R. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., New York, 2014

Thompson WD, Wang JEH, Wilson S, Ganesalingam N. 1994 Fibrin Degradation products

in the angiogenesis of breast cancer. In: 'Angiogenesis Molecular Biology, Clinical aspects' (Maragoudakis ME, Gullino PM, Lelkes PI Eds.), pp 245-252. Plenum Press, New York [Book Chapter]

Thompson WD, MacNally SJ, Ganesalingam N, McCallion DSE, Stirk CM, Melvin WT. 1996. Wound healing, fibrin, and angiogenesis. in: 'Molecular Cellular and Clinical aspects of Angiogenesis'. (Maragoudakis ME Ed.) Plenum press, New York In Press pp 612-618 [Book Chapter]