Prof Marios Papadopoulos
Contact
Email: mpapadop@sgul.ac.uk
Secretary: Sam Rutledge
Secretary email: samantha.rutledge@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Secretary telephone: 020 8725 4179
Clinical interests
Prof Papadopoulos is a consultant neurosurgeon with a specialist interest in complex spinal surgery and vascular neurosurgery.
His clinical interests include general neurosurgery with sub-specialist interest in vascular and complex spinal surgery.
His research interests are aquaporin water channel proteins, especially aquaporin-4. His laboratory investigates the role of aquaporin-4 in brain and spinal cord swelling and in the neurological disease neuromyelitis optica. Prof Papadopoulos is also interested in the role of spinal cord swelling after injury and has set up the ISCoPE (Injured Spinal Cord Pressure Evaluation) clinical study aiming to develop novel techniques to manage spinal cord swelling after severe traumatic spinal cord injury.
A full list of Prof Papadopoulos' research publications is available here.
Professional profile
Professor Papadopoulos was educated at the Universities of Cambridge (BA 1990, MD 1997) and Oxford (BM BCh 1993). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1998 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Surgical Neurology (FRCS(SN)) in 2002. Prof Papadopoulos received his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Neurosurgery in 2005.
Neurosciences Research Foundation
Prof Papadopoulos is Chairman of the Neurosciences Research Foundation, which funds patient-centred research in clinical neurosciences.
The Neurosciences Research Foundation is supported by the generous donations from patients who were treated at Atkinson Morley at St George's Hospitals.
To make a donation to the Neurosciences Research Foundation visit the NEUROSCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION website.
Consultant Outcome Publication 2020
Recent publications
Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC. Targeted Perfusion Therapy in Spinal Cord Trauma. Neurotherapeutics. 2020 Apr;17(2):511-521.
Saadoun S, Chen S, Papadopoulos MC. Intraspinal pressure and spinal cord perfusion pressure predict neurological outcome after traumatic spinal cord injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 May;88(5):452-453.
Phang I, Zoumprouli A, Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC. Safety profile and probe placement accuracy of intraspinal pressure monitoring for traumatic spinal cord injury: Injured Spinal Cord Pressure Evaluation study. J Neurosurg Spine. 2016 Sep;25(3):398-405.
Phang I, Werndle MC, Saadoun S, Varsos G, Czosnyka M, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC. Expansion duroplasty improves intraspinal pressure, spinal cord perfusion pressure, and vascular pressure reactivity index in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury: injured spinal cord pressure evaluation study. J Neurotrauma. 2015 Jun 15;32(12):865-74.
Werndle MC, Saadoun S, Phang I, Czosnyka M, Varsos GV, Czosnyka ZH, Smielewski P, Jamous A, Bell BA, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC. Monitoring of spinal cord perfusion pressure in acute spinal cord injury: initial findings of the injured spinal cord pressure evaluation study. Crit Care Med. 2014 Mar;42(3):646-55.
