About

Mr Hani Marcus is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.      

He specialises in treating patients with pituitary adenoma, and related skull base tumours. His expertise lies in the use of “keyhole” endoscopic approaches, completing fellowships in Calgary, Zurich, and London before his appointment. In 2020, he cofounded the British Neuroendoscopy Society to drive the advancement of endoscopic techniques and led the largest prospective study of patients undergoing pituitary surgery worldwide, including 866 patients across 30 centres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has also authored international guidelines on pituitary surgery through the Pituitary Society, where he serves on the education committee.      

Mr Marcus has a research interest in technologies such as augmented reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence, for which he was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London. His work has attracted over £2.5 million in research funding, resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and frequently featured in the national and international press. He has been awarded numerous prizes and honours, including the Young Neurosurgeon Award by the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and the prestigious Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of surgeons of England. He serves as Deputy Director of the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and the regional Lead for Neurosurgery and Brain Cancer at the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network.     

Current positions

Consultant Neurosurgeon (Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Honorary Associate Professor (Robotics and AI), UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Lead for Neurosurgery and Brain Cancer (North Thames CRN), National Institute for Health Research

Previous positions

Royal College of Surgeons Senior Clinical Fellow (Pituitary & Anterior Skull Base Surgery), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

Specialty Registrar (Neurosurgery), London Deanery  

Berkeley Travelling Fellow, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary (Surgical Robotics) 

Berkeley Travelling Fellow, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich (Endoscopy and Skull Base Surgery)  

Academic Clinical Fellow (Neurosurgery), London Deanery and Imperial College London

Academic Foundation Programme (Clinical Neuroscience), Eastern Deanery and University of Cambridge 

Education

Fellowship (Neurosurgery), European Board of Neurological Surgery, Barcelona  

Fellowship (Neurosurgery), Royal College of Surgeons of England  

Doctor of Philosophy (Surgical Robotics), Imperial College London 

Postgraduate Diploma (University Learning and Teaching), Imperial College London 

Fellowship, Higher Education Academy  

Master of Arts, University of Cambridge 

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Cambridge  

Bachelor of Arts (Neuroscience), University of Cambridge