Henry Marsh

Who is Henry Marsh?

Henry Thomas Marsh, CBE, FRCS is a leading British neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine.

Marsh attended the Dragon School in Oxford. Latest he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, achieving First Class Honours, before graduating with Honours in Medicine from London University. He is now the senior consultant neurosurgeon at the Atkinson Morley Wing at St George's Hospital, one of the country's largest specialist brain surgery units.

He specialises in operating on the brain under local anaesthetic and was the subject of a major BBC documentary Your Life in Their Hands in 2004, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal. He has been working with neurosurgeons in the former Soviet Union, mainly in Ukraine with mentee neurosurgeon Igor Kurilets, since 1992 and his work there was the subject of the BBC Storyville film The English Surgeon from 2007. He has a particular interest in the influence of hospital buildings and design on patient outcomes and staff morale; he has broadcast and lectured widely on this subject. He spends his spare time either making furniture or practising neurosurgery in Ukraine.

Marsh was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours. Also in 2010 he presented the Leslie Oliver Oration at Queen's Hospital.