Dr Peter Lucas

Dr Peter Lucas is an Australian trained and educated Neurosurgeon and is a consultant neurosurgeon and medical director at Neuron in Brisbane.

He grew up in Queensland, Australia completing his medical undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland. Dr Lucas obtained his medical degree in 1998 and then completed his basic surgical training at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, with exposure to a broad range of medical and surgical specialties.

Neurosurgical training followed, with time spent in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Christchurch and Melbourne. In 2007, Dr Lucas was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Neurosurgery. Thereafter Dr Lucas spent 6 months as Neurosurgical Fellow at the prestigious Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, England and then returned to Queensland to take up a consultant position at the Royal Brisbane and Womens’ Hospital. A comprehensive educational responsibility for junior training doctors coupled with an expansive service requirement to the people of Queensland followed.

Dr Lucas however, quickly perceived the need for a comprehensive neurosurgical service, accessible to all, but without the limitations of the public sector. Neuron: Brain, Spine and Nerve Surgery was created from this ideal in 2009 and continues to grow today.

 

Publications

o Adenocarcinoma of the Lung with Cystic Metastasis to the Calvarium – Acta Neurochirurgica 2007

o Disseminated Haemangioblastoma without evidence of the von Hippel-Lindau syndrome or haemangioblastomatosis – A Case report and clinico-pathological correlation – Clin Neurol Neurosurg (2007)

o Determining the Key Regulators of Glioma Tumourgenicity by Isolating and Screening Glioma Specific Stem Cells

- Commencement of human glioma tissue transfer to Queensland Brain Institute for research and banking. Author of ethics submission.

- Project expansion -  Co-author of successful grant proposal to Australian Research Council Funding A$1.2M

- Finalist 2007 Peter Leech Memorial Prize – report on findings