Alex Boukas (@neuroalx) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Boukas

@neuroalx

Consultant Neurosurgeon @ouhospitals. Frequently injured Runner.

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linkhttps://www.neurobullets.co.uk/ calendar_today15-03-2020 12:16:01

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Nick Mark MD (@nickmmark) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Medicine has thousands of eponyms. Most are named for doctors but a few eponyms honor patients. For example, Bacitracin, named for the bacteria Bacillus subtilis var Tracy, was first identified in a little girl “Tracy I.” New post & medical history🧵 1/ onepagericu.com/blog/magnanimo…

Asim Sheikh (@asheikhneuro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excellent opportunity to refine microsurgical skills in open neurovascular surgery in a busy Neurosurgical unit. Applications now open for an RCS England The Royal College of Surgeons of England approved Neurovascular Fellowship in Leeds. Please apply via bmj.com/careers/job/68… Closing date 22nd April.

Eduardo A. Vega (@eavegamd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to welcome Dr. Anita Balakrishnan Anita Balakrishnan as our guest speaker for GR @StElizabethsMC 🫵 MDs & postdocs in Boston interested in HPB surgery and global oncology. 📣 Join us, If you'd like to join, please DM me! AHPBA E-AHPBA Haley Ellis Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Excited to welcome Dr. Anita Balakrishnan <a href="/HPBCambridge/">Anita Balakrishnan</a> as our guest speaker for GR @StElizabethsMC 
🫵 MDs &amp; postdocs in Boston interested in HPB surgery and global oncology.  
📣 Join us,  If you'd like to join, please DM me!
 <a href="/AHPBA/">AHPBA</a> <a href="/EAHPBA/">E-AHPBA</a> <a href="/DrHaleyEllis/">Haley Ellis</a>  <a href="/BUMedicine/">Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine</a>
Alex Boukas (@neuroalx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign @We_ownit's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take-t…

BNTA (@e1v1m1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Successful first edition of ST6 bootcamp, thanks to MedEd Coventry and all the faculty involved! Looking forward to next year!

Successful first edition of ST6 bootcamp, thanks to MedEd Coventry and all the faculty involved! Looking forward to next year!
Women in Surgery (@womensurgeonsuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Times journalist Martin Samuel’s claim you need to be a “big guy” to be an orthopaedic surgeon is absurd. He ignores the skill, training and breadth of female talent in orthopaedics - and disrespectfully uses a female surgeon’s private history to make his misguided points 1/3🧵

Times journalist Martin Samuel’s claim you need to be a “big guy” to be an orthopaedic surgeon is absurd. He ignores the skill, training and breadth of female talent in orthopaedics - and disrespectfully uses a female surgeon’s private history to make his misguided points 1/3🧵
Helena Horton (@horton_official) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sad to hear Keir Starmer saying immigration is turning the UK into an “island of strangers”. People who have moved here from other countries are my friends and neighbours, not strangers.

King's Neurosurgery (@kingsneuro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have published a milestone multicentre study on "Genomic landscape of diffuse glioma revealed by whole genome sequencing" Nature Communications paper: rdcu.be/elD0y 👉identified an extended catalogue of recurrent coding and non-coding genetic mutations

We have published a milestone multicentre study on "Genomic landscape of diffuse glioma revealed by whole genome sequencing" <a href="/NatureComms/">Nature Communications</a> 

paper: rdcu.be/elD0y

👉identified an extended catalogue of recurrent coding and non-coding genetic mutations
Daniel Walsh FRCS (@danielwalshfrcs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My colleagues at the Walton Centre have developed a course targetted at neurosurgeons in training to help develop a mindset focussed on prevention but prepared to effectively manage , reflect and learn from them when they occur. #neurosurgery edgehill.ac.uk/industry/conti…

The BMJ (@bmj_latest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The relationship between PAs and their clinical leads must be recognised for what it is: an ongoing process of direct instruction, not supervision." The physician associate model is one of closely monitored support—not supervision, writes Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP bmj.com/content/389/bm…

Alex Boukas (@neuroalx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All doctors in the UK deserve full #payrestoration — not just to correct years of erosion, but to reflect the value, skill, and sacrifice the job demands. A decent pay rise isn’t a luxury. It’s overdue. #wedeservebetter