Symposium in Honour of Professor Tipu Aziz
Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery and Founder and head of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery
Friday, 17 October 2025
Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus
9am – 5pm
Lunch served in the Atrium at 1pm
This symposium will provide a meaningful opportunity to come together in reflection, as
we honour Tipu’s outstanding contributions and enduring legacy.
We invite you to join us in commemorating his life and celebrating the lasting impact of his work.
All welcome to attend lunch and symposium, kindly register with QR code.
Enquiries: tarryn.ching@nds.ox.ac.uk
Programme
09:00 Coffee
09:30-09:45 Welcome and Introduction: Alex Green
Movement Disorders
09:45-10:15 Tipu in Manchester and the Subthalamic Nucleus Story: Alan Crossman
10:15-10:45 Setting up the Oxford Functional Service: Peter Silburn
10:45-11:00 Probabilistic Mapping of STN for PD: Andreas Nowacki
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 PPN from Monkey to Man: Dipankar Nandi
12:00-12:30 Icelandic endeavours and troubled muscle tension: Arnar Astradsson
12:30-13:00 Building tools for clinical discovery: reflections on the clinician-engineer partnership: Tim Denison
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Pain/ Autonomic/ Psychiatric
14:00-14:30 Pain, Porto and pig heads: Erlick Pereira
14:30-15:00 Singing the Mind Electric: Morten Kringelbach
15:00-15:30 Autonomic Neuromodulation: Jonathan Hyam
15:30-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-16:30 DBS for Anorexia: Rebecca Park/ John Eraifej
16:30-17:00 Anecdotes: Chris Adams and others