Dr Victoria Wykes

Dr Victoria Wykes

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Honorary Neurosurgical Consultant

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8855
Email
v.wykes@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Victoria Wykes is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and an Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at University Hospital Birmingham, sub-specialising in neurosurgical oncology and epilepsy surgery. 

Victoria is the local principal investigator for the Tessa Jowell Brain Matrix study  and chief investigator for Brain Surgical Tissue for Advanced Tissue Models (BRAIN STAT).

Qualifications

  • FRCS (Neurosurgery) Royal College of Surgeons, England (2014)
  • European Neurosurgery Exam European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2013)
  • MRCS Royal College of Surgeons, England (2009)
  • MB PhD University College London (2005)  
  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, University College London (1997)

Teaching

  • White Matter dissection course (GKT Anatomy labs, Royal College of Surgeons)
  • Advanced communication course (GMC, London)
  • NOn-Technical Skills for Surgeons (West Midlands Surgical Deanery)

Other activities

  • Local Organising Committee lead: Precision medicine and the future of neuro-oncology practice; July 2021. 
  • Neurosurgery / General surgery trainee teaching locally and regionally.
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Foundation School Mentor for Foundation Year doctors in the West Midlands.
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical School interviewer.
  • Neurosciences public engagement events including: Royal College of Surgeons: ; Brain Awareness Week.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Jen, JP, Li, X, Patel, M, Haq, H, Pohl, U, Nagaraju, S, Wykes, V, Sanghera, P, Watts, C & Sawlani, V 2024, '', Neuro-oncology advances, vol. 6, no. 1, vdae065.

Parikh, S, U, UA, Heyes, G, Evison, F, Meade, S, Benghiat, H, Hartley, A, Hickman, M, Sawlani, V, Chavda, S, Wykes, V & Sanghera, P 2024, '', Clinical Oncology.

Goel, A, Flintham, R, Pohl, U, Nagaraju, S, Meade, S, Sanghera, P, Benghiat, H, Ughratdar, I, Wykes, V & Sawlani, V 2024, '', World Neurosurgery, vol. 188, pp. e71-e80.

Watts, C, Savage, J, Patel, A, Mant, R, Wykes, V, Pohl, U, Bulbeck, H, Apps, J, Sharpe, R, Thompson, G, Waldman, AD, Ansorge, O & Billingham, L 2022, '', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 9, e067123.

Sun, R, Sharma, S, Benghiat, H, Meade, S, Sanghera, P, Bramwell, G, Nagaraju, S, Pohl, U, Dawson, C, Petrik, V, Ughratdar, I, White, A, Zisakis, A, Ramalingam, S, Sawlani, V, Watts, C & Wykes, V 2022, '', Neuro-Oncology Practice, pp. 1-9.

Solomou, G, Gharooni, A-A, Patel, W, Gillespie, CS, Gough, M, Venkatesh, A, Poon, MTC, Wykes, V, Price, SJ, Jenkinson, MD, Watts, C & Plaha, P 2022, '', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 7, e056059.

Toman, E, Soon, WC, Thanabalasundaram, G, Burns, D, Petrik, V, Watts, C, Wykes, V & White, A 2021, '', BMJ open, vol. 11, no. 2, e047063.

Rodionov, R, O'Keeffe, A, Nowell, M, Rizzi, M, Vakharia, VN, Wykes, V, Eriksson, SH, Miserocchi, A, McEvoy, AW, Ourselin, S & Duncan, JS 2019, '', Journal of Neurosurgery, pp. 1-8.

British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative & Wykes, V 2018, '', Neuro-Oncology Practice, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 74-81.

Jones, V, Wykes, V, Cohen, N, Thompson, D & Jacques, TS 2018, '', Histopathology, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 1136-1144.

Xie, Y, Thom, M, Ebner, M, Wykes, V, Desjardins, A, Miserocchi, A, Ourselin, S, McEvoy, AW & Vercauteren, T 2017, '', Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 22, no. 11, 116006 .

Wykes, V & Vindlacheruvu, R 2015, '', Neurosurgery, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 355-362.

Wykes, V, Desai, D & Thompson, DNP 2012, '', Child's Nervous System, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1731-9.

Preprint

Watts, C, Savage, J, Patel, A, Mant, R, Wykes, V, Pohl, U, Bulbeck, H, Apps, J, Sharpe, R, Thompson, G, Waldman, A, Ansorge, O, Billingham, L & Watts, C 2022 '' medRxiv.

Review article

Sawlani, V, Patel, MD, Davies, N, Flintham, R, Wesolowski, R, Ughratdar, I, Pohl, U, Nagaraju, S, Petrik, V, Kay, A, Jacob, S, Sanghera, P, Wykes, V, Watts, C & Poptani, H 2020, '', Insights into Imaging, vol. 11, no. 1, 84.