Dr. Andrew Molyneux graduated from Cambridge but spent most of his professional career in Oxford.

After graduation and prior to coming into radiology, he spent 18 months working in Papua New Guinea, including a year in a remote Highlands Hospital, with three doctors serving 200,000 people. This involved doing almost everything from dealing with axe and arrow wounds to Caesarean Sections, anesthetics and autopsies.

After training in radiology in Oxford and spending a year in Denver (where his skiing improved), he returned to a career in neuroradiology and developed an Interventional Neuroradiology service from early beginnings in 1979 in Oxford.

He has been working the field of stroke and interventional treatment of brain vascular lesions for more than 30 years including the treatment of intracranial aneurysms by endovascular techniques for more than 25 years. He was amongst the first in Europe to use platinum coils to treat otherwise untreatable cerebral aneurysms in the early 1990’s and one of the first in Europe to use detachable platinum coils.

He has published widely in many aspects of stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and interventional treatment of brain lesions. In recent years, his focus has been on intracranial aneurysm treatment in particular, with a personal experience of well over 1000 cases over the last 25 years.

He started the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) in 1994, which was funded by the UK Medical Research Council in 1997 and is the Co-principal Investigator of the study. He is the first author on two major publications in The Lancet in 2002 and 2005 reporting the results of the ISAT study, which has transformed the management of patients with ruptured brain aneurysms in many countries of the developed world.

Dr. Molyneux has retired from active clinical practice but continues as an attachment to the Nuffield Department of Surgical Services, University of Oxford.

His main focus now is on completing a number of research projects, writing papers and spending more time at home with his family. Outside of medicine, his activities include focusing on a need to keep fit, golf (where his objective is to get to a decent handicap), skiing and sailing.

It is an honor for the SNIS to have Dr. Molyneux as our 2019 Luminary Lecturer.