Associate Professor Alistair Jukes, MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACS CCINR
Associate Professor - Adelaide University Medical School Consultant Neurosurgeon - Adult and Paediatric
Current positions:
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Consultant Neurosurgeon , Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre , Memorial Hospital
Achievements:
Associate Professor - Adelaide Medical School
Drake fellow in Neurovascular sciences - London, Ontario
Harriet and James Ross Award for excellence in clinical teaching – Schulich Medical School, Ontario, Canada
Medical Officer, Royal Australian Air Force Specialist Reserve
Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) Course Instructor
Harold Plant Memorial Prize, Australian Medical Association
Why neurosurgery?
"The brain is the most fascinating part of the human body. It is the key to personality, memory, and movement. Diseases of the brain can be so profoundly debilitating but this makes any potential gains and improvements from research all that much greater. Neurosurgery has such a broad range of operations and diseases – trauma, vascular, tumours, paediatrics, spine and many others. It is full of fascinating areas; many of which we are only beginning to scratch the surface of."
Specialisation:
Alistair is a dual trained open and endovascular surgeon specialising in stroke, aneurysm, avm and fistula surgeries. He completed a two year Drake Neurovascular fellowship in open and endovascular surgery in London, Ontario under Dr Mel Boulton preceded by a 6 month fellowship in interventional and open vascular surgery with Dr Rodney Allan in Sydney at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Current NRF-funded projects include:
Alistair completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter J Wormald and Prof Alkis Psaltis looking at haemostasis in endoscopic skull base surgery. There is a high risk of bleeding when operating within the skull base, whether endoscopically or with open surgery. This research investigated mechanisms of controlling such bleeding with self-assembling protein glues and patches resulting in the awarding of patents related to these. These glues and patches, when applied to bleeding vessels, form a scaffold around the point of bleeding and stop the haemorrhage. He currently supervises students looking further into these issues along with preventing post operative fibrosis in spinal surgery
Publications:
For a full list of Dr Jukes’ recent publications, please visit his researchgate page
Jukes A, Murphy J, Vreugde S, & Wormald PJ (2016) Nano-hemostats and a Pilot Study of Their Use in a Large Animal Model of Major Vessel Hemorrhage in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. Journal of Neurological Surgery, Part B.
