* More than 20 years of experience* Consultant Neurosurgeon, North Bristol NHS Trust (present) * Consultant Neurosurgeon, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust. Clinical Lead for Brain and CNS Tumours. (present)* Consultant Spinal Surgeon and Neurosurgeon (Degenerative non instrumented spinal surgery for cervical and lumbar spine ), Sulis Hospital, Bath (present)* Chair of The Regional Service development Site Specific group - Brain and CNS Tumours for the SWAG (Swindon, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire) cancer network.* Educational Lead and Clinical Tutor for Neurosurgery, North Bristol NHS Trust* National Member of Specialty Accreditation Committee in Neurosurgery and SAC liaison member for West Midlands deanery* Examiner for the Intercollegiate specialty examination in Neurosurgery* Trained Appraiser for Doctors* Director of the Neuro-Oncology Fellowship program at Southmead Hospital, accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons, England ...

* MSc Healthcare Leadership, University of Birmingham (2016)* PG Certificate in Medical Education, University of Bristol (2013) * MD, University of Central Lancashire, Preston (2007) - Thesis titled €˜A feasibility study of Chemosensitivity testing in primary cultures from malignant gliomas and analysis of drug resistance mechanisms€™* FRCS (Neurosurgery), Intercollegiate specialty board, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (2004)* FRCS (Glasgow) Clinical Surgery in General, Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow (1995)* FRCS (Edinburgh) Clinical Surgery in General, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1995)* MS (Surgery), Institute of Medical Sciences (1992)* MBBS, Institute of Medical Sciences (1989) ...

* Society of British Neurosurgeons* British Association of Spinal Surgeons * British Neuro-Oncology Society* Society of Neuro-Oncology (USA)* Eurospine* Congress of Neurological Surgeons (USA)* European Association of Neurosurgery ...

* Sidney Driscoll Foundation Award €“ 2006 for best original research work on chemosensitivity of gliomas. Award comprises expenses paid for travel and stay for a travelling Fellowship.* Neuro-oncology fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital supervised by Prof M. Brada in Stereotactic radiosurgery and Neuro-Oncology (November 2006)

* Peer reviewer for the BMJ and British Journal of Neurosurgery* Angelo Pichierri, Marcus Bradley, Venkat Iyer: Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Glioma Resections in Awake or Asleep Settings and Feasibility in the Context of a Public Health System; World Neurosurg. X (2019) 3:100022 * Shaw, A, Iyer, V, Rooney, N, Wragg, R, Waits, P, Roberts, E, Haynes, HR and Kurian, KM 2014, €˜Diagnosis of primary cerebral lymphomas: possible value of PCR testing in equivocal cases requiring rebiopsy€™. British Journal of Neurosurgery, vol 28., pp. 214-9.* Abhinav K, Aquilina K, Gbejuade H, La M, Hopkins K, Iyer V : A pilot study of glioblastoma multiforme in elderly patients: treatments, O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) methylation status and survival. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2013 Aug;115(8):1375-8.* Dawson TP, K Ashton, A Golash and C H G Davis, R V Iyer, R W Lea, P Roberts and F Harris (2011) Cell Survival Assays For Individualised Chemotherapy In Primary Glioma Cultures €“ Colourmetric Or Luminescent? Neuroscience and Medicine 2(4); 376-383* Dawson TP, Iyer RV, Lea RW, Roberts P, Harris E, Ashton K, Golash A, Davis CH. The MTS vs. the ATP assay for in vitro chemosensitivity testing of primary glioma tumour culture. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2010 Oct;36(6):564-7.* Iyer RV , Gurusinghe NT. Re: Subarachnoid hemorrhage on computed tomography scanning and the development. Surg Neurol 2005;63:229-35. Surg Neurol. 2006 Mar;65(3):316-7; author reply 317.* Alakandy LM, Iyer RV, Golash A. Hemichorea, an unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt. J Clin Neurosci. 2008 May;15(5): 599-601.* Ray A, Iyer RV, King AT; Cerebral abscess as a delayed complication of halo fixation . Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2006 Sep;148(9):1015-1016* Iyer RV, Gurusinghe NT; Letter: Subarachnoid haemorrhage on computed tomography scanning and development of cerebral vasospasm: the Fisher grade revisited. Surg Neurol 2005;63:229-235* Abstract of presentation at the British Neuropathological Society, 2006 titled €˜ Chemosensitivity testing in primary cultures from malignant gliomas €™ in €˜Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology€™, Volume 32, January 2006.* Iyer RV, Likhith AM, McLean JA, Perera S, Davis CH; Audit of Operating Theatre time utilisation in Neurosurgery; British Journal of Neurosurgery. 2004 Aug;18(4):333-336* Abstract of presentation €˜The development of a chemosensitivity assay in gliomas'  in the International Journal of Molecular Biology (supplement), October 2004* Abstract of presentation €˜ Chemosensitivity testing in primary cultures from malignant gliomas €™. Toxicology. 213:p229 March 2004. Iyer RV, Coutinho C, Lye RH; Spontaneous spinal cord herniation. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 2002 Oct;16(5):507-510.* Sousa J, Iyer V, Roberts G; Mirror image distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms. A case report of two patients with review of literature . Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2002 Sep:144(9):933-935;discussion 935.* Some further thoughts on the aetiopathology of Syringomyelia and experience with Surgical management€™; (P Bhatt, RV Iyer, W Gunawardena, C Davis) p113- p117 in €˜Syringomyelia-Current concepts in pathogenesis and management €™; published by Springer-Verlag, 2001.* Factors predicting Vasospasm in Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: A prospective observational study in the North of England €“ Chapter published in €˜ Vasospasm€™: (Springer Verlag August 2004) €“: proceedings of the 8th International conference on Cerebral Vasospasm, Chicago 2003.* Diagnosis and Treatment of malignant glioma €“ Chapter 14 in the book titled 'The molecular and cellular pathology of cancer progression and prognosis€™, 2006 , Publisher: Research Signpost. ...

* Full Member of The Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS)* Member of British Neuro-Oncology Society (BNOS) * Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), England* Associate Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh* Member of Society of Neuro-Oncology (USA)* International Member of €˜Congress of Neurological Surgeons€™ (CNS)* Full Member of the European Association of Neurosurgical societies (EANS)* Full Member of Eurospine (European Spine society)* Member of Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) ...

* Examiner in Neurosurgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (2010)* Member of the Specialist Advisory committee in Neurosurgery, Royal College of Surgeons, England and Organiser of The National Neurosurgery Finishing School for Neurosurgical trainees * â‚¬â€¹Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol* Educational Tutor, Department of Neurosurgery, North Bristol NHS Trust ...