Rate My Professor John Fuller

Dr. John Fuller, MBBS, FRACS, serves as Clinical Associate Professor in the Macquarie Medical School at Macquarie University. A graduate of the University of New South Wales in 1987, he completed his neurosurgical training at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital, and Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, earning his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Neurosurgery in 1996. After fellowship, Dr. Fuller practiced comprehensively in neurosurgery in Canberra with a special interest in neuro-oncology and served as Consultant and Clinical Director of Neurosurgery at The Canberra Hospital. He is a founding member of Macquarie Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgical Director of the Gamma Knife Surgery Program at Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney. His practice includes all aspects of cerebral, spinal, and peripheral nerve surgery, with subspecialty interests in surgical neuro-oncology with radiosurgery and complex spinal surgery, including spinal oncology. He co-chaired the 16th Leksell Gamma Knife Society Meeting in Sydney in 2012. Dr. Fuller has been directly involved in neurosurgical training at student and college levels through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Dr. Fuller maintains strong involvement in neurosurgical education via positions on the RACS Board of Neurosurgery and the Board of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia for the past 10 years. He is the President of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. His research specializations are surgical neuro-oncology and radiosurgery. Key publications include: “A rare event: pituitary apoplexy 6 weeks after gamma knife radiosurgery for a non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma” (2021, Journal of the Endocrine Society); “Volume not number of metastases: Gamma Knife radiosurgery management of intracranial lesions from an Australian perspective” (2019, Radiotherapy and Oncology); “Comparison between surgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery for brain AVMs” (2017, Journal of Neurosurgery); “Out of field dose during Gamma Knife treatment: a paediatric case study” (2017, Journal of Physics: Conference Series); and “External ventricular drain infections at the Canberra Hospital: A retrospective study” (2016, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience). These contributions highlight his influence on radiosurgery techniques and neurosurgical practices in Australia.