St George's Hospital, London
George Hudson
MB/BChir (Cantab), MRCS
Neurosurgery Resident
I am an ambitious doctor with a strong sense of initiative. Having built experience in basic science and clinical research, I am now consolidating my skills and line of research through an Academic Clinical Fellowship in neurosurgery.
Career
Clinical Experience
Aug 2026 – Present
St George's Hospital, London
Neurosurgery Resident (SHO)
- Rotating within the regional neurosurgery unit, managing acute and elective neurosurgical patients
Aug 2025 – Aug 2026
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
SHO Doctor and Clinical Research Fellow, TeQ Research Group (Prof Hani Marcus)
- Working extensively within the pituitary surgery team
- Curated a pituitary surgery database and library of endoscopic video for AI development
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane
SHO Doctor · AMC registration MED0002849869
- Rotations in Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracics, Vascular Surgery, Cardiology and Emergency Medicine
- Adapted to a new healthcare system with different cultural sensitivities and communication challenges
Aug 2022 – Aug 2024
University Hospitals Bristol & Weston, Bristol
Foundation Year Doctor · GMC registration 7934246
- Rotations in General Surgery, Acute Medicine, Hepatology, Academic Research, ICU and GP
- Clerking, assessment and management of patients, including on-call and nightshift working
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London
Medical Elective
- Six-week attachment with the Craniofacial and Neurosurgery teams
- Attended MDT meetings and clinics; observed posterior vault expansion, selective dorsal rhizotomy and myelomeningocele repair
Academic
Education
Oct 2016 – Aug 2022
University of Cambridge, St John's College
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB/BChir)
- Triple first class honours in years 1, 2 and 3
- Winner of the Wright Prize — top 10% of medical students university-wide
- Winner of the St John's College Medical Society essay competition
May 2024 and May 2026
MRCS Part A and Part B
Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons
Research
Research Experience
Aug 2026 – Present
Functional Neurosurgery, St George's Hospital
Academic Clinical Fellowship
- Developing a frontier of research within functional neurosurgery alongside Professor Erlick Pereira and Mr Michael Hart and their neurology collaborators
Aug 2025 – Aug 2026
Neurosurgery, TeQ Research Group
Clinical Research Fellow
- Independently designed a study evaluating a computer vision AI tool for pituitary endoscopic surgery
- Built a web app from scratch in JavaScript to assess user trust in the AI assistant
Aug 2023 – Aug 2024
Vascular Surgery, North Bristol Trust
Academic Foundation Doctor
- Independently completed an ethics application analysing platelet surface marker expression
- Conducted patient interviews evaluating risk-appetite for DVT thrombectomy/thrombolysis
- Developed an international core outcome set for researchers studying chronic deep venous disease
Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Neurological Research Volunteer (David Rowitch group)
- Cultured, sliced and fixed cerebral organoids
Oct 2018 – Jan 2020
Cambridge PDN Department
Stem Cell Research
- Year-long project developing and testing a human hypoblast-like stem cell line
- Developed proficiency in embryonic stem cell culture, cell fixation, confocal microscopy and RNA-seq
Publications
- Robotic platforms in neurosurgery: the great disappearing act
Hudson et al. 2026 · British Journal of Neurosurgery
- Editor's Choice — A Core Outcome Set for Clinical Studies on Chronic Venous Disease Involving the Deep Veins
Hudson et al. 2025 · European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
- Risk acceptance for deep venous interventions of the lower limb
Hudson et al. 2025 · Phlebology: The Journal of Venous Disease
- Global funding for surgical research between 2016 and 2020: content analysis of public and philanthropic investments
McIntosh et al. 2025 · British Journal of Surgery
- Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help reduce the harms of emergency department crowding?
Hudson et al. 2021 · European Journal of Emergency Medicine
- An in vitro stem cell model of human epiblast and yolk sac interaction
Mackinlay et al. 2021 · eLife
Presentations
International oral presentation
Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy enhances quality of life in ambulant diplegic cerebral palsy — with the most profound benefits seen in those at GMFCS level III
International Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) 2025
International oral presentation
Functional benefit following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy in ambulant diplegic cerebral palsy shows continued growth in functional improvement at 2 years
ISPN 2024 — Top Abstracts Session
National oral presentation
A small number of JCOGs in a big segmentectomy wheel: How applicable is the JCOG0802/WJOG4607L trial to real-life practice?
Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland 2024
Poster, national conference
Genetic generalised epilepsy in Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome
British Paediatric Neurology Association Annual Conference 2021
Prizes
Director's Award
Awarded for outstanding clinical performance at Queen Square · 2026
- COVID-19 Design Challenge
Finalist out of 512 teams, for the design and development of an app to facilitate contact tracing in low- and middle-income countries · 2020
Diver Scholarship and Wright Prize
Awarded for academic performance, University of Cambridge · 2017
Development
Courses & Teaching
Nov 2025
Pituitary Surgery National Course
NHNN
- Created, organised and led a national neurosurgery course with 20 attendees
Sep 2025
Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP)
Royal College of Surgeons
- Internationally accredited course on managing medical emergencies in surgical patients
Jun 2025
360° Skull Base Dissection Course
University of Queensland
- Cadaveric dissection course on anterior and lateral approaches to the skull base
- Developed endoscopic skills using a two-person, four-hands technique
Jun 2024
Vascular Neurosurgery Course
NHNN
- Vascular anastomosis and microscope suturing
- Management of intracranial aneurysms, AVMs and cavernomas
Jun 2024
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Royal College of Surgeons
- Invited to teach the course in subsequent years after outstanding performance
Feb 2024
Basic Surgical Skills
Royal College of Surgeons
- Suturing, drain insertion and wound debridement
Dec 2023
Foundations in Medical Education
The Academy of Medical Educators
- Small-group teaching methods and learner-centred approaches
Nov 2023
Neurosurgical Robotics Course
NHNN
- Explored the role and principles of robotics in neurosurgery
Press
In the News
The Pituitary Foundation · December 2025
Queen Square Pituitary Patient Research Open Day — a patient blog
Presented research on AI-assisted recognition software designed to help surgeons navigate pituitary surgery more safely with real-time visual guidance, at a patient and public engagement day at Queen Square.
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UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering · 2026
Report: The Future of Cancer Care
Featured in a UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Policy Impact Unit report, produced as part of UCL's Bicentenary, on what AI could mean for cancer prevention and early diagnosis.
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Cambridge AI North (University of Cambridge) · 2020
CAIaN proposes app-based solution for contact tracing
Coverage of the COVID-19 Design Challenge in which a team including George Hudson reached the top 20 of over 500 entries with an app-based contact tracing solution for low- and middle-income countries.
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