Roy Thomas Daniel

Roy Thomas Daniel graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Kerala State, India and specialized in neurosurgery from the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India. He completed Fellowships in neurosurgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, and the University Hospital of Lausanne. After working as full professor at CMC, he joined the CHUV as Vice Chairman of Neurosurgery in 2009.

Prof. Daniel has extensive experience in the surgical treatment of both malignant and benign tumors of the brain. He has developed several innovative surgical techniques for the treatment of skull base tumors principally by the combination of surgical approaches namely trans-cranial along with minimally invasive trans-nasal endoscopic surgery and radio surgery. These have significantly reduced postoperative morbidity for these difficult tumors and have enabled the acceptance of this new paradigm internationally.

As an active member of the Section of Skull base surgery of the European association of Neurosurgery (EANS), he has published several articles that detail the treatment guidelines for the treatment of these tumors.

He has established the Neurosurgical Education and training laboratory at the CHUV for trans-cranial and endonasal endoscopic surgeries on cadavers.This laboratory helps in the training of residents in Neurosurgery form Switzerland and rest of Europe. Work done in this laboratory has led to the description of several new surgical techniques for the treatment of brain lesions principally in the domain of neuro-oncology.

He is as an active member of the International academy of neurosurgical anatomy (IANA) that conducts teaching and training workshops for neurosurgical residents and fellows internationally. Furthermore, Roy Thomas Daniel has several clinical research projects underway in the areas of skull base surgery, neuro-oncology and vascular neurosurgery.