Mr Nicholas Maartens

Mr Maartens undertook his neurosurgical training at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford where he was one of the last registrars personally trained by Christopher Adams. He then did fellowship training in the USA under Ed Laws focussing on pituitary surgery. He has performed over 12,000 neurosurgical procedures and has published more than 60 academic papers including 12 book chapters. He is both a general neurosurgeon with expertise in complex spine surgery and cranial microsurgery and a endoscopic skull base pituitary surgeon. He is affiliated to the William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre at the Alfred Hospital where he is part of the brain and spinal neuro-oncology team and where he leads the Melbourne Pituitary Neuroendocrine Service.

• Endoscopic pituitary skull base surgery
• Complex spinal surgery
• Cranial microsurgery