Reuben Johnson

Reuben graduated from Medicine from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1999.  He has been part of the Wellington Neurosurgical team since 2016.  He trained as an academic neurosurgeon London, Cambridge, Oxford, in the UK,  Melbourne (Australia), and Vicenza (Italy).   He has undertaken laboratory based preclinical neuroscience research at the University of  Toronto (Canada), the University of Cambridge (UK), and also in the Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics in Oxford.  Reuben was awarded his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2007. He completed a fellowship in endoscopic pituitary surgery with Simon Cudlip in Oxford before moving to New Zealand in 2012 as Senior Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the University of Otago.  Reuben’s subspecialty interests include neuro-onclogy, and endoscopic pituitary surgery, skull base surgery, spinal surgery, head injury and concussion.  Reuben also has a law degree from the University of London and consults on ethical and medicolegal aspects of surgery and medicine.