Dr James Dimou

NEUROSURGEON

MBBS MBA PhD FRACS

James Dimou is a neurosurgeon-scientist with subspecialty expertise in the clinical management and research of brain tumours. His neurosurgical philosophy emphasises the importance of providing compassionate, individualised patient care that is grounded in the best scientific evidence.

Having graduated from medical school at the University of Melbourne in 2003, he then trained in Neurosurgery across a number of Australasian centres, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2017. He then spent a further two years in Canada expanding his training, through a combined clinical and research fellowship in Surgical Neuro-Oncology at the Foothills Medical Centre under the auspices of the University of Calgary. He has further augmented his skills in brain tumour-related clinical care and scientific research with additional observerships in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada, and graduated with a Senior Executive MBA at Melbourne Business School, with the long-term aim of leading transformative research and innovation in Neuro-oncology.

James continues to be an active contributor to the neurosurgical research community. In 2013, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Melbourne, for translational research exploring the molecular biology and therapeutic targeting of glioma stem cells, receiving accolades from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) for best research presentation by a Young Neurosurgeon two years earlier. He continues to publish his own research and is an appointee on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. His appointment at the University of Melbourne as a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Surgery (RMH), co-leadership of the Parkville Precinct Brain Tumour Research Group, and role as RMH Director of Junior Surgical Training, underline his commitment to medical and neurosurgical education.

James holds public appointments as a neurosurgeon at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Health. He operates in private at Melbourne Private Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Werribee. He consults in Parkville, Werribee and Caroline Springs.

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