Dr. Marcus Stoodley

Biography

Professor Stoodley leads neurosurgery at Macquarie University Hospital, specializing in neurovascular surgery. He is recognized as a leader in cerebral bypass surgery, particularly for treating moyamoya disease and other occlusive disorders. Stoodley has extensive expertise in the clinical management of Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, and spinal cord tumors. He graduated with honors from the University of Queensland Medical School and completed his neurosurgery training in Australia, followed by subspecialty training in vascular neurosurgery at Stanford University and the University of Chicago. Before joining Macquarie University, he worked at Prince Wales Hospital at the University of New South Wales. In addition to his clinical duties, he heads one of the largest neurosurgery research teams in Australasia, focusing on CSF physiology and new treatments for brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). His research has attracted $3 million in funding and has resulted in over 100 publications, along with supervision of 15 research students. Stoodley has notably delivered 70 invited lectures at national and international scientific meetings. In 2012, he was awarded the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship, the premier surgical research award from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

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