Dr Simon Lammy
- Honorary Clinical Lecturer (Undergraduate Medical School)
email:
Simon.Lammy@glasgow.ac.uk
Department of Neurosurgery, 1345 Govan Road, Institute of Neurological Sciences, G51 4TF
Biography
I am an RCSeng Senior Clinical Fellow in Neuro-Oncology at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham having obtained my Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at the Institute of Neurological Sciences in May 2024 and completed an OOPR clinical research fellowship at the School of Cancer Sciences in Glasgow under Professor Anthony Chalmers.
During training I was a Tessa Jowell Brain MATRIX NIHR Associate PI (Glasgow) and a former RCSeng Associate Surgical Specialty Lead in Neurosurgery (amongst other managerial and leadership roles including being Trainee Representative for MSN For Neurosurgery in Scotland). Previously I ranked 4th in Scotland for core surgical selection (2012) and 1st in Oxford for academic vascular surgical selection (2013). This is alongside being a former president of the Royal Free & University College Medical Students’ Union (2007). I remain a Course Director and Faculty Tutor in Critical Care at RCSeng.
Of note is that I revised and published the 2nd and 3rd Edition of Surgical Critical Care For the MRCS OSCE alongside publishing numerous times in RCSEd Surgeons News and being profiled in The Lancet Neurology and The Sunday Post. Overall I have been a Co-Principle Investigator on 5 published BNTRC prospective cohort studies and multiple COVIDSurg studies and supervised over 30 medical students and junior doctors during neurosurgical training. I have over 60 publications and 40 presentations and deliver teaching at RCSeng and RCPE (amongst other notable institutions of learning).
Research interests
Current
- PhD Patterns of Glioblastoma Recurrence after Chemoradiation (Supervisor: Professor Chalmers)
- Tessa Jowell Brain MATRIX NIHR Associate PI (Glasgow)
- INS DLGG and Genetic Determinants of Seizure Presentation
- INS mMCAI and Disability Paradox
Previous
- INS Trainee Co-Principle Investigator
- BNTRC MEMBRANE
- BNTRC UCES
- BNTRC UK Cranial Reconstruction Registry
Research groups
- Educational Research & Scholarship
- Clinical Psychology & Neuroscience
- Neuroimaging Methods
Publications
2024
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, , STARSurg Collaborative, and , (2024) A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. Lancet Digital Health, 6(7), e507-e519. (doi: 10.1016/s2589-7500(24)00065-7) (PMID:38906616)
Harris, B. H. L. et al. (2024) Diversity of thought: public perceptions of genetic testing across ethnic groups in the UK. Journal of Human Genetics, 69(1), pp. 19-25. (doi: 10.1038/s10038-023-01199-1) (PMID:37907557) (PMCID:PMC10774120)
2023
Lammy, S. , McPartlin, R., Bridgman, E., Bouttell, J. and Brown, J. (2023) Usefulness of preoperative extracranial imaging in radiologically suspicious glioblastoma in the West of Scotland and proposal of an imaging diagnostic pathway. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 105(8), pp. 754-764. (doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2022.0106) (PMID:36239603)
Hoeritzauer, I. et al. (2023) Cauda equina syndrome: poor inter-rater agreement for diagnostic categories. Bone and Joint Journal, 105-B(9), pp. 1007-1012. (doi: 10.1302/0301-620x.105b9.bjj-2022-1343.r1) (PMID:37652459)
Loan, J. J. M. et al. (2023) Prospective, multicentre study of screening, investigation and management of hyponatraemia after subarachnoid haemorrhage in the UK and Ireland. Stroke and Vascular Neurology, 8, e001583. (doi: 10.1136/svn-2022-001583) (PMID:36150732) (PMCID:PMC10359796)
Poon, M. T. C. et al. (2023) Variation in postoperative outcomes of patients with intracranial tumors: insights from a prospective international cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neuro-Oncology, (doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad019) (PMID:37052643) (Early Online Publication)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) More questions than answers to the diagnosis and management of cauda equina syndrome—authors’ reply. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 27, 100606. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100606) (PMID:36926263) (PMCID:PMC10011811)
Lammy, S. , Brown, J. and Littlechild, P. (2023) Cavernous sinus haemangioma masquerading as a pituitary macroadenoma: how the unexpected lurks in neurosurgery. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 37(2), pp. 234-236. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1861437) (PMID:33332201)
Lammy, S. , Piper, R. and Mukerji, N. (2023) Fellowship of the British Journal of Neurosurgery. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 37(2), pp. 125-126. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2023.2173873) (PMID:36734860)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) Demographics of cauda equina syndrome: a population based incidence study. Neuroepidemiology, 56(6), pp. 460-468. (doi: 10.1159/000527727) (PMID:36315989)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) Presentation, management, and outcomes of cauda equina syndrome up to one year after surgery, using clinician and participant reporting: a multi-centre prospective cohort study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 24, 100545. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100545) (PMID:36426378) (PMCID:PMC9678980)
2022
Elsheikh, M. , Bridgman, E., Lavrador, J. P., Lammy, S. and Poon, M. T. C. (2022) Association of extent of resection and functional outcomes in diffuse low-grade glioma: systematic review & meta-analysis. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 160(3), pp. 717-724. (doi: 10.1007/s11060-022-04192-4) (PMID:36404358)
Gillespie, C. S. et al. (2022) Imaging timing after glioblastoma surgery (INTERVAL-GB): protocol for a UK and Ireland, multicentre retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063043. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063043) (PMID:36100297) (PMCID:PMC9472166)
McKinley, A., Lammy, S. , James, A. , Stan, A. and Barrett, C. (2022) Emergency surgical decompression and long term survival of glioblastoma presenting in coma in old age: case report and review of prognostic factors. Oxford Medical Case Reports, 2022(7), pp. 271-273. (doi: 10.1093/omcr/omac074) (PMID:35903619) (PMCID:PMC9318890)
May, G., Lammy, S. , Kumar, A., Hegde, A. and St. George, E. J. (2022) First reported case of hydrocephalus in jointly diagnosed bacterial meningitis and a colloid cyst: how Ockham’s razor became Hickam’s dictum. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 36(3), pp. 420-423. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2022.2077911) (PMID:35608085)
2021
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 77(1), pp. 28-39. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15563)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, (2021) Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study. Lancet Oncology, 22(11), pp. 1507-1517. (doi: 10.1016/s1470-2045(21)00493-9) (PMID:PMC8492020) (PMCID:PMC8492020)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, (2021) Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score. British Journal of Surgery, 108(11), pp. 1274-1292. (doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab183) (PMID:34227657) (PMCID:PMC8344569)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(11), pp. 1454-1464. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15560) (PMID:34371522)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. British Journal of Surgery, 108(9), pp. 1056-1063. (doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab101) (PMID:33761533) (PMCID:PMC7995808)
Fountain, D.M. et al. (2021) First report of a multicenter prospective registry of cranioplasty in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Neurosurgery, 89(3), pp. 518-526. (doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyab220) (PMID:34192745)
Bradley, R., Bremner, M., McKinley, A. and Lammy, S. (2021) Usefulness of Royal College of Surgeons of England operation note guidelines to neurosurgical practice: a closed loop audit. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 35(4), pp. 418-423. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1817858) (PMID:32930608)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(6), pp. 748-758. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15458) (PMID:33690889) (PMCID:PMC8206995)
Piper, R. J., Afshari, F. T., Soon, W. C., Kolias, A. G., Dyson, E. W., Watkins, L., Laing, R., Lo, W. B., Jayamohan, J. and the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC), (2021) UK Chiari 1 Study: protocol for a prospective, observational, multicentre study. BMJ Open, 11(3), e043712. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043712) (PMID:33846149) (PMCID:PMC8048021)
Kanani, M. and Lammy, S. (2021) Surgical Critical Care For the MRCS OSCE. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York. ISBN 9781108702546 (doi: 10.1017/9781108774505)
2020
Lammy, S. (2020) Management of traumatic brain injury in China versus Europe. Lancet Neurology, 19(11), p. 886. (doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30345-8) (PMID:33098789)
Lammy, S. , Taylor, A., Willetts, S. and St George, E. J. (2020) Fifteen-year institutional retrospective case series of decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction. World Neurosurgery, 143, e456-e463. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.07.185) (PMID:32750513)
Lammy, S. , Taylor, A., Willetts, S. and St George, E. J. (2020) In reply to the letter to the editor regarding “15-Year Institutional Retrospective Case Series of Decompressive Craniectomy for Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction (mMCAI)”. World Neurosurgery, 143, p. 640. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.155) (PMID:33167161)
Nassar, A.H.M. et al. (2020) Predicting the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: development and validation of a pre-operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system. Surgical Endoscopy, 34(10), pp. 4549-4561. (doi: 10.1007/s00464-019-07244-5) (PMID:31732855)
Vergani, F. et al. (2020) Management evaluation of metastasis in the brain (MEMBRAIN)—a United Kingdom and Ireland prospective, multicenter observational study. Neuro-Oncology Practice, 7(3), pp. 344-355. (doi: 10.1093/nop/npz063) (PMID:32537183) (PMCID:PMC7274191)
2019
El-Sharkawy, A.M. et al. (2019) The Cholecystectomy As A Day Case (CAAD) score: a validated score of preoperative predictors of successful day-case cholecystectomy using the CholeS data set. World Journal of Surgery, 43(8), pp. 1928-1934. (doi: 10.1007/s00268-019-04981-5) (PMID:31016355)
Poorthuis, M. H.F., Rinkel, L. A., Lammy, S. and Al-Shahi Salman, R. (2019) Stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral cavernous malformations: a systematic review. Neurology, 93(21), e1971-e1979. (doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008521) (PMID:31659093)
2018
Bharamgoudar, R. et al. (2018) The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surgical Endoscopy, 32(7), pp. 3149-3157. (doi: 10.1007/s00464-018-6030-6) (PMID:29340820) (PMCID:PMC5988776)
Lammy, S. , Bhattacharya, J., Dervin, J. and St. George, E. J. (2018) Trans-cranial embolisation of a complex transverse sigmoid sinus dural arteriovenous fistula by direct puncture of the superior sagittal sinus. Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, 13(3), pp. 946-948. (doi: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_330_16) (PMID:30283590) (PMCID:PMC6159061)
2017
Sutton, A.J. et al. (2017) Cost-effectiveness of emergency versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute gallbladder pathology. British Journal of Surgery, 104(1), pp. 98-107. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10317) (PMID:27762448)
2016
Lammy, S. , Fivey, P. and Sangra, M. (2016) Decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction in a 16-year old boy: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 10, 368. (doi: 10.1186/s13256-016-1145-7) (PMID:27998316) (PMCID:PMC5175374)
Lammy, S. , Al-Romhain, B., Osborne, L. and St. George, E. J. (2016) 10-year institutional retrospective case series of decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (mMCAI). World Neurosurgery, 96, pp. 383-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.09.004) (PMID:27639522)
Sutcliffe, R. et al. (2016) Preoperative risk factors for conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy: a validated risk score derived from a prospective U.K. database of 8820 patients. HPB, 18(11), pp. 922-928. (doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2016.07.015) (PMID:27591176) (PMCID:PMC5094477)
Vohra, R.S. et al. (2016) Population-based cohort study of outcomes following cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases. British Journal of Surgery, 103(12), pp. 1704-1715. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10287) (PMID:27561954)
Vohra, R.S. et al. (2016) Population-based cohort study of variation in the use of emergency cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases. British Journal of Surgery, 103(12), pp. 1716-1726. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10288) (PMID:27748962)
Lammy, S. , Blackmur, J. P. and Perkins, J. M.T. (2016) Intravenous heparin during ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysmal repair. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016(8), CD011486. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011486.pub2) (PMID:27541335) (PMCID:PMC8485975)
2015
Kanani, M. and Lammy, S. (2015) Surgical Critical Care: For the MRCS OSCE. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107657687 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107589247)
Harris, B. H.L., Walsh, J. L. and Lammy, S. (2015) UK medical selection: lottery or meritocracy? Clinical Medicine, 15(1), pp. 40-46. (doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-40) (PMID:25650197) (PMCID:PMC4954522)
Lammy, S. , Blackmur, J. P. and Perkins, J. M.T. (2015) Intravenous heparin during ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysmal repair. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015(1), CD011486. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011486)
2014
Lloyd, O., Lammy, S. , Edwards, R. and Laing, R. (2014) Takayasu's arteritis and an elevated antistreptolysin O titre - a potentially expensive diagnostic conundrum. JRSM Open, 5(6), p. 2054270414531125. (doi: 10.1177/2054270414531125) (PMID:25057401) (PMCID:PMC4100226)
Lammy, S. and Pessotto, R. (2014) Factor XI deficiency: incidental diagnosis post coronary artery bypass graft. Scottish Medical Journal, 59(1), e6-e8. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013519027) (PMID:24419230)
Lammy, S. (2014) Core surgical training applications: making the cut. Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 96(1), pp. 26-27. (doi: 10.1308/003588414x1381402167691)
2013
Blackmur, J.P., Lammy, S. and Baring, D.E.C. (2013) Baboon syndrome: an unusual complication arising from antibiotic treatment of tonsillitis and review of the literature. BMJ Case Reports, 2013, 2013201977. (doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201977) (PMID:24287484) (PMCID:PMC3847517)
Lammy, S. and Velu, P. P. (2013) Massive atrial myxoma: surgical treatment for an incidentaloma causing dyspnoea. Scottish Medical Journal, 58(4), e21-e23. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013508047) (PMID:24215053)
Lammy, S. (2013) Elucidating the fragmentation of consciousness underpins future neurosurgical research. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(5), p. 709. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2013.835380) (PMID:23980809)
Lammy, S. , Pringle, E., Carnochan, F., Rodgers, H., Yan, T. and Walker, W. (2013) Right lower lobectomy following inhalation of a toy traffic cone. JRSM Short Reports, 4(10), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1177/2042533313476699) (PMID:24319576) (PMCID:PMC3831860)
Lammy, S. (2013) Cardiothoracic-themed core surgical training programs in Scotland. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 146(3), pp. 504-505. (doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.04.039) (PMID:23790402)
Lammy, S. , Stewart, M., Carnochan, F. and Walker, W. (2013) Bilateral Morgagni hernia: operative discovery of appendix lying on superior pulmonary vein. Scottish Medical Journal, 58(3), e1-e3. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013496917) (PMID:23960062)
Lammy, S. , McConnell, R., Kamel, M., Rennie, I. and Al-Haddad, S. (2013) Extradural haemorrhage: is there a role for endovascular treatment? British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(3), pp. 383-385. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2012.717981) (PMID:22946965)
Lammy, S. , Kynaston, J., Mitchell, A. and Bruce, D. (2013) Omental necrosis masquerading as urinary retention following laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass for super obesity. JRSM Short Reports, 4(5), 33. (doi: 10.1177/2042533312472127) (PMID:23772311) (PMCID:PMC3681228)
Lammy, S. (2013) The futuristic nature of endoscopic approaches. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(1), p. 144. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2013.764969) (PMID:23327470)
2012
Lammy, S. (2012) Conscious sedation is the way forward. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 26(1), p. 125. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2011.637583) (PMID:22296068)
2009
Lammy, S. (2009) Anatomical course demarcating the safe area for the superior gluteal nerve. McGill Journal of Medicine, 12(2), pp. 23-26. (doi: 10.26443/mjm.v12i2.269) (PMID:21152330) (PMCID:PMC2997245)
2008
Lammy, S. (2008) Competition ratios for different specialties and the effect of gender and immigration status. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 101(11), pp. 526-527. (doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k026) (PMID:19029347) (PMCID:PMC2586859)
2007
Lammy, S. (2007) Informed consent for elective surgery: what is best practice? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 100(7), pp. 304-305. (doi: 10.1177/014107680710000708)
2006
Lammy, S. (2006) Public health in the UK: Success or failure? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99(5), pp. 220-221. (doi: 10.1258/jrsm.99.5.220-b)
Articles
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, , STARSurg Collaborative, and , (2024) A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. Lancet Digital Health, 6(7), e507-e519. (doi: 10.1016/s2589-7500(24)00065-7) (PMID:38906616)
Harris, B. H. L. et al. (2024) Diversity of thought: public perceptions of genetic testing across ethnic groups in the UK. Journal of Human Genetics, 69(1), pp. 19-25. (doi: 10.1038/s10038-023-01199-1) (PMID:37907557) (PMCID:PMC10774120)
Lammy, S. , McPartlin, R., Bridgman, E., Bouttell, J. and Brown, J. (2023) Usefulness of preoperative extracranial imaging in radiologically suspicious glioblastoma in the West of Scotland and proposal of an imaging diagnostic pathway. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 105(8), pp. 754-764. (doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2022.0106) (PMID:36239603)
Hoeritzauer, I. et al. (2023) Cauda equina syndrome: poor inter-rater agreement for diagnostic categories. Bone and Joint Journal, 105-B(9), pp. 1007-1012. (doi: 10.1302/0301-620x.105b9.bjj-2022-1343.r1) (PMID:37652459)
Loan, J. J. M. et al. (2023) Prospective, multicentre study of screening, investigation and management of hyponatraemia after subarachnoid haemorrhage in the UK and Ireland. Stroke and Vascular Neurology, 8, e001583. (doi: 10.1136/svn-2022-001583) (PMID:36150732) (PMCID:PMC10359796)
Poon, M. T. C. et al. (2023) Variation in postoperative outcomes of patients with intracranial tumors: insights from a prospective international cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neuro-Oncology, (doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad019) (PMID:37052643) (Early Online Publication)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) More questions than answers to the diagnosis and management of cauda equina syndrome—authors’ reply. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 27, 100606. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100606) (PMID:36926263) (PMCID:PMC10011811)
Lammy, S. , Brown, J. and Littlechild, P. (2023) Cavernous sinus haemangioma masquerading as a pituitary macroadenoma: how the unexpected lurks in neurosurgery. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 37(2), pp. 234-236. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1861437) (PMID:33332201)
Lammy, S. , Piper, R. and Mukerji, N. (2023) Fellowship of the British Journal of Neurosurgery. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 37(2), pp. 125-126. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2023.2173873) (PMID:36734860)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) Demographics of cauda equina syndrome: a population based incidence study. Neuroepidemiology, 56(6), pp. 460-468. (doi: 10.1159/000527727) (PMID:36315989)
Woodfield, J. et al. (2023) Presentation, management, and outcomes of cauda equina syndrome up to one year after surgery, using clinician and participant reporting: a multi-centre prospective cohort study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 24, 100545. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100545) (PMID:36426378) (PMCID:PMC9678980)
Elsheikh, M. , Bridgman, E., Lavrador, J. P., Lammy, S. and Poon, M. T. C. (2022) Association of extent of resection and functional outcomes in diffuse low-grade glioma: systematic review & meta-analysis. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 160(3), pp. 717-724. (doi: 10.1007/s11060-022-04192-4) (PMID:36404358)
Gillespie, C. S. et al. (2022) Imaging timing after glioblastoma surgery (INTERVAL-GB): protocol for a UK and Ireland, multicentre retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063043. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063043) (PMID:36100297) (PMCID:PMC9472166)
McKinley, A., Lammy, S. , James, A. , Stan, A. and Barrett, C. (2022) Emergency surgical decompression and long term survival of glioblastoma presenting in coma in old age: case report and review of prognostic factors. Oxford Medical Case Reports, 2022(7), pp. 271-273. (doi: 10.1093/omcr/omac074) (PMID:35903619) (PMCID:PMC9318890)
May, G., Lammy, S. , Kumar, A., Hegde, A. and St. George, E. J. (2022) First reported case of hydrocephalus in jointly diagnosed bacterial meningitis and a colloid cyst: how Ockham’s razor became Hickam’s dictum. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 36(3), pp. 420-423. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2022.2077911) (PMID:35608085)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 77(1), pp. 28-39. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15563)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, (2021) Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study. Lancet Oncology, 22(11), pp. 1507-1517. (doi: 10.1016/s1470-2045(21)00493-9) (PMID:PMC8492020) (PMCID:PMC8492020)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, (2021) Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score. British Journal of Surgery, 108(11), pp. 1274-1292. (doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab183) (PMID:34227657) (PMCID:PMC8344569)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(11), pp. 1454-1464. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15560) (PMID:34371522)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. British Journal of Surgery, 108(9), pp. 1056-1063. (doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab101) (PMID:33761533) (PMCID:PMC7995808)
Fountain, D.M. et al. (2021) First report of a multicenter prospective registry of cranioplasty in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Neurosurgery, 89(3), pp. 518-526. (doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyab220) (PMID:34192745)
Bradley, R., Bremner, M., McKinley, A. and Lammy, S. (2021) Usefulness of Royal College of Surgeons of England operation note guidelines to neurosurgical practice: a closed loop audit. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 35(4), pp. 418-423. (doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1817858) (PMID:32930608)
COVIDSurg Collaborative, and GlobalSurg Collaborative, (2021) Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(6), pp. 748-758. (doi: 10.1111/anae.15458) (PMID:33690889) (PMCID:PMC8206995)
Piper, R. J., Afshari, F. T., Soon, W. C., Kolias, A. G., Dyson, E. W., Watkins, L., Laing, R., Lo, W. B., Jayamohan, J. and the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC), (2021) UK Chiari 1 Study: protocol for a prospective, observational, multicentre study. BMJ Open, 11(3), e043712. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043712) (PMID:33846149) (PMCID:PMC8048021)
Lammy, S. (2020) Management of traumatic brain injury in China versus Europe. Lancet Neurology, 19(11), p. 886. (doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30345-8) (PMID:33098789)
Lammy, S. , Taylor, A., Willetts, S. and St George, E. J. (2020) Fifteen-year institutional retrospective case series of decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction. World Neurosurgery, 143, e456-e463. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.07.185) (PMID:32750513)
Lammy, S. , Taylor, A., Willetts, S. and St George, E. J. (2020) In reply to the letter to the editor regarding “15-Year Institutional Retrospective Case Series of Decompressive Craniectomy for Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction (mMCAI)”. World Neurosurgery, 143, p. 640. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.155) (PMID:33167161)
Nassar, A.H.M. et al. (2020) Predicting the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: development and validation of a pre-operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system. Surgical Endoscopy, 34(10), pp. 4549-4561. (doi: 10.1007/s00464-019-07244-5) (PMID:31732855)
Vergani, F. et al. (2020) Management evaluation of metastasis in the brain (MEMBRAIN)—a United Kingdom and Ireland prospective, multicenter observational study. Neuro-Oncology Practice, 7(3), pp. 344-355. (doi: 10.1093/nop/npz063) (PMID:32537183) (PMCID:PMC7274191)
El-Sharkawy, A.M. et al. (2019) The Cholecystectomy As A Day Case (CAAD) score: a validated score of preoperative predictors of successful day-case cholecystectomy using the CholeS data set. World Journal of Surgery, 43(8), pp. 1928-1934. (doi: 10.1007/s00268-019-04981-5) (PMID:31016355)
Poorthuis, M. H.F., Rinkel, L. A., Lammy, S. and Al-Shahi Salman, R. (2019) Stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral cavernous malformations: a systematic review. Neurology, 93(21), e1971-e1979. (doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008521) (PMID:31659093)
Bharamgoudar, R. et al. (2018) The development and validation of a scoring tool to predict the operative duration of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surgical Endoscopy, 32(7), pp. 3149-3157. (doi: 10.1007/s00464-018-6030-6) (PMID:29340820) (PMCID:PMC5988776)
Lammy, S. , Bhattacharya, J., Dervin, J. and St. George, E. J. (2018) Trans-cranial embolisation of a complex transverse sigmoid sinus dural arteriovenous fistula by direct puncture of the superior sagittal sinus. Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, 13(3), pp. 946-948. (doi: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_330_16) (PMID:30283590) (PMCID:PMC6159061)
Sutton, A.J. et al. (2017) Cost-effectiveness of emergency versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute gallbladder pathology. British Journal of Surgery, 104(1), pp. 98-107. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10317) (PMID:27762448)
Lammy, S. , Fivey, P. and Sangra, M. (2016) Decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction in a 16-year old boy: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 10, 368. (doi: 10.1186/s13256-016-1145-7) (PMID:27998316) (PMCID:PMC5175374)
Lammy, S. , Al-Romhain, B., Osborne, L. and St. George, E. J. (2016) 10-year institutional retrospective case series of decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (mMCAI). World Neurosurgery, 96, pp. 383-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.09.004) (PMID:27639522)
Sutcliffe, R. et al. (2016) Preoperative risk factors for conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy: a validated risk score derived from a prospective U.K. database of 8820 patients. HPB, 18(11), pp. 922-928. (doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2016.07.015) (PMID:27591176) (PMCID:PMC5094477)
Vohra, R.S. et al. (2016) Population-based cohort study of outcomes following cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases. British Journal of Surgery, 103(12), pp. 1704-1715. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10287) (PMID:27561954)
Vohra, R.S. et al. (2016) Population-based cohort study of variation in the use of emergency cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder diseases. British Journal of Surgery, 103(12), pp. 1716-1726. (doi: 10.1002/bjs.10288) (PMID:27748962)
Lammy, S. , Blackmur, J. P. and Perkins, J. M.T. (2016) Intravenous heparin during ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysmal repair. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016(8), CD011486. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011486.pub2) (PMID:27541335) (PMCID:PMC8485975)
Harris, B. H.L., Walsh, J. L. and Lammy, S. (2015) UK medical selection: lottery or meritocracy? Clinical Medicine, 15(1), pp. 40-46. (doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-40) (PMID:25650197) (PMCID:PMC4954522)
Lammy, S. , Blackmur, J. P. and Perkins, J. M.T. (2015) Intravenous heparin during ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysmal repair. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015(1), CD011486. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011486)
Lloyd, O., Lammy, S. , Edwards, R. and Laing, R. (2014) Takayasu's arteritis and an elevated antistreptolysin O titre - a potentially expensive diagnostic conundrum. JRSM Open, 5(6), p. 2054270414531125. (doi: 10.1177/2054270414531125) (PMID:25057401) (PMCID:PMC4100226)
Lammy, S. and Pessotto, R. (2014) Factor XI deficiency: incidental diagnosis post coronary artery bypass graft. Scottish Medical Journal, 59(1), e6-e8. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013519027) (PMID:24419230)
Lammy, S. (2014) Core surgical training applications: making the cut. Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 96(1), pp. 26-27. (doi: 10.1308/003588414x1381402167691)
Blackmur, J.P., Lammy, S. and Baring, D.E.C. (2013) Baboon syndrome: an unusual complication arising from antibiotic treatment of tonsillitis and review of the literature. BMJ Case Reports, 2013, 2013201977. (doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201977) (PMID:24287484) (PMCID:PMC3847517)
Lammy, S. and Velu, P. P. (2013) Massive atrial myxoma: surgical treatment for an incidentaloma causing dyspnoea. Scottish Medical Journal, 58(4), e21-e23. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013508047) (PMID:24215053)
Lammy, S. (2013) Elucidating the fragmentation of consciousness underpins future neurosurgical research. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(5), p. 709. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2013.835380) (PMID:23980809)
Lammy, S. , Pringle, E., Carnochan, F., Rodgers, H., Yan, T. and Walker, W. (2013) Right lower lobectomy following inhalation of a toy traffic cone. JRSM Short Reports, 4(10), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1177/2042533313476699) (PMID:24319576) (PMCID:PMC3831860)
Lammy, S. (2013) Cardiothoracic-themed core surgical training programs in Scotland. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 146(3), pp. 504-505. (doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.04.039) (PMID:23790402)
Lammy, S. , Stewart, M., Carnochan, F. and Walker, W. (2013) Bilateral Morgagni hernia: operative discovery of appendix lying on superior pulmonary vein. Scottish Medical Journal, 58(3), e1-e3. (doi: 10.1177/0036933013496917) (PMID:23960062)
Lammy, S. , McConnell, R., Kamel, M., Rennie, I. and Al-Haddad, S. (2013) Extradural haemorrhage: is there a role for endovascular treatment? British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(3), pp. 383-385. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2012.717981) (PMID:22946965)
Lammy, S. , Kynaston, J., Mitchell, A. and Bruce, D. (2013) Omental necrosis masquerading as urinary retention following laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass for super obesity. JRSM Short Reports, 4(5), 33. (doi: 10.1177/2042533312472127) (PMID:23772311) (PMCID:PMC3681228)
Lammy, S. (2013) The futuristic nature of endoscopic approaches. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 27(1), p. 144. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2013.764969) (PMID:23327470)
Lammy, S. (2012) Conscious sedation is the way forward. British Journal of Neurosurgery, 26(1), p. 125. (doi: 10.3109/02688697.2011.637583) (PMID:22296068)
Lammy, S. (2009) Anatomical course demarcating the safe area for the superior gluteal nerve. McGill Journal of Medicine, 12(2), pp. 23-26. (doi: 10.26443/mjm.v12i2.269) (PMID:21152330) (PMCID:PMC2997245)
Lammy, S. (2008) Competition ratios for different specialties and the effect of gender and immigration status. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 101(11), pp. 526-527. (doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k026) (PMID:19029347) (PMCID:PMC2586859)
Lammy, S. (2007) Informed consent for elective surgery: what is best practice? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 100(7), pp. 304-305. (doi: 10.1177/014107680710000708)
Lammy, S. (2006) Public health in the UK: Success or failure? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99(5), pp. 220-221. (doi: 10.1258/jrsm.99.5.220-b)
INTERVAL-GB Collaborative, , Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG), , British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC), and , Imaging timing after surgery for glioblastoma: an evaluation of practice in Great Britain and Ireland (INTERVAL-GB)- a multi-centre, cohort study. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, (doi: 10.1007/s11060-024-04705-3)
Books
Kanani, M. and Lammy, S. (2021) Surgical Critical Care For the MRCS OSCE. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ; New York. ISBN 9781108702546 (doi: 10.1017/9781108774505)
Kanani, M. and Lammy, S. (2015) Surgical Critical Care: For the MRCS OSCE. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107657687 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107589247)
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Using ex vivo culture to investigate novel radiotherapy drug combinations in glioblastoma in patient resection specimens
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
2022 - 2023
- Using ex vivo culture to investigate novel radiotherapy drug combinations in glioblastoma in patient resection specimens
Cancer Research UK
2022 - 2024
- Patterns of Glioblastoma Recurrence after Chemoradiation
Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
2021 - 2026
Supervision
Current
- Dr. Emily Bligh (Academic FY1-FY2 Doctor [2021-2023])
- Neurology & Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG) Interval-GB
- Glioblastoma Research
- Mr. Mustafa El Sheikh (JCF-ST3 Neurosurgery [2000-2024)
- MAST-TBI
- DLGG Research
- Dr. Alexander Irving (Academic FY1-FY2 Doctor [2023-2025])
- Trigeminal Neuralgia Research
- Spinal Pilocytic Intra-Dural Extra-Medullary Tumours
Previous
- INS Trainee Co-Principle Investigator (Supervising Medical Students)
- BNTRC SaSH
- NANSIG ELISAR-GB
- Interval-GB
- INS Trainee Co-Principle Investigator (Supervising Junior Doctors)
- GNOS-TBI
- GlobalSurg
- COVIDSurg COVIDSurg-Cancer
Teaching
Current
- 2021: RCSeng
- Faculty Tutor - CCriSP
- 2020: RCSeng
- Course Director - START
- 2013: RCSeng
- Faculty Tutor - START
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2022: Small Pump Grant (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
Professional & learned societies
- 2022: Senior Fellow, BJNeurosurgery
- 2022: Fellowship, RCSEd
- 2022: CCrISP Working Group, RCSeng
- 2021: National Neurosurgical Audit Project, SBNS
- 2021: Trainee Representative, MSN
- 2021: Associate Surgical Specialty Lead in Neurosurgery, RCSeng
- 2021: Fellowship, RSM
- 2012: Membership, RCSEd
- 2010: License To Practice, GMC