Mr Nick Carleton-Bland is the Deputy Director of Medical Education and Consultant Neurosurgeon at Liverpool’s Walton Centre. He has extensive experience of neuronavigation and MIS. Therefore, he was part of the pioneering team to introduce robotics as the natural progression of these modern techniques. The Walton Centre has now delivered the most robotic spinal surgeries in the UK and Nick has extensive experience with the use if the robotics in trauma, tumour and degenerative cases C-L spine.

He graduated from St George’s Medical School University of London with distinction; he holds a first-class honours degree from the University of Leeds and a Masters from Manchester Business School. He underwent basic surgical training in London and was appointed to a national training number in Neurosurgery in 2009. He has trained in San Francisco, Sydney and in four neurosurgical units in the Northwest of England. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2015 and has completed a two-year complex spinal neurosurgery fellowship. Since being appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre in 2017, Mr Carleton-Bland has run a fulltime clinical practice alongside an educationalist practice in undergraduate and post-graduate settings. He is a current Deputy director of Medical Education, a national human factors trainer, a senior clinical lecturer and lead for neurosurgery at the University of Liverpool Medical School, an international neurosurgery lecturer (EDISC) and is the Director of the Liverpool Neurosurgery Masterclass series (www.tlnm.org). He was nominated for the prestigious National ASiT ‘Silver Scalpel’ award 2023. He won the postgraduate ‘Excellence in Education’ award 2020 from the North West School of Surgery and the national teaching award from Association for Perioperative Practice 2019.