Professional background
Ms Huma Sethi undertook her neurosurgical training in the UK, mainly based in London. She has been working as a consultant neurosurgeon at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery since 2009.
Her sub-specialist interests are:
- Brain tumour surgery
- Gamma Knife peripheral nerve surgery eg carpal tunnel and nerve biopsies
- Intraventricular endoscopy for obstructive hydrocephalus, colloid cyst, tumour biopsy
- She has worked as Training Programme Director for Neurosurgery in North Thames London and has been a member of specialist advisory committee in Neurosurgery from 2014 to 2017. Currently she is a question writer for the intercollegiate neurosurgery exam.
She conducts neurosurgery educational courses in conjunction with national and international faculty. Has has the advanced certificate in clinical education from Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in Glasgow.
She is a Regional Director for The Royal College of Surgeons (North East London). She also supports the college in her roles as an RCS accessor and RCS faculty.
Research interests
Ms Sethi has worked in close collaboration with Professor David Attwell, Ross Nortley and their team on the project of Amyloid beta oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer's disease via signaling to pericytes.
Languages spoken
Urdu, Pushto, Punjabi, Hindi
Publications
Selected Publications
Amyloid beta oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer's disease via signalling to pericytes
10.1126/ Science aav9518(2019)
Ross Nortley, Anusha Mishra, Zane Jaunmuktane, Vasiliki Kyrargyri, Christian Madry, Hui Gong, Angela Richard-Loendt, Sebastian Brandner, Huma Sethi, View ORCID ProfileDavid Attwell
Targeting pericytes for therapeutic approaches to neurological
disorders Acta NeurpPathologica 136,507-523 92018)
Jinping Cheng1 · Nils Korte2 · Ross Nortley2 · Huma Sethi3 · Yamei Tang1 · David Attwell2
Targeting protein homeostasis in sporadic inclusion body myositis.
Sci Transl Med
Sci Transl Med 2016 Mar;8(331):331ra41
Mhoriam Ahmed, Pedro M Machado, Adrian Miller, Charlotte Spicer, Laura Herbelin, Jianghua He, Janelle Noel, Yunxia Wang, April L McVey, Mamatha Pasnoor, Philip Gallagher, Jeffrey Statland, Ching-Hua Lu, Bernadett Kalmar, Stefen Brady, Huma Sethi, George Samandouras, Matt Parton, Janice L Holton, Anne Weston, Lucy Collinson, J Paul Taylor, Giampietro Schiavo, Michael G Hanna, Richard J Barohn, Mazen M Dimachkie, Linda Greensmith
Analysis of White Adipose Tissue Gene Expression Reveals CREB1 Pathway Altered in Huntington's Disease.
• J Huntingtons Dis
• J Huntingtons Dis 2015 ;4(4):371-82
• Andrew Christopher McCourt, Jennifer Parker, Edina Silajdži?, Salman Haider, Huma Sethi, Sarah J Tabrizi, Thomas T Warner, Maria Björkqvist
Early years of Neurosurgical training in the Era of European working time directive
Mathew A Kirkman,Laurence D Watkins,Neil D Kitchen and Huma Sethi
British Journal of Neurosurgery
October 2013;27(5):586-589
Scalp Necrosis following Preopopertive Embolization of Meningeal Tumours: Two Cautionary tales
Mathew Kirkman, Huma Sethi, Neil Kitchen
Acta Neurochir (2013) 155:1413-1415
Supratentorial ependymoma presenting as a cortical cyst with a mural nodule in an adult.
J Surg Case Rep
J Surg Case Rep 2015 14;2015(1). Epub 2015 Jan 14.
Jignesh Tailor, Zane Jaunmuktane, Sebastian Brandner, Huma Sethi
J Clin Neurosci 11(8): 829 -34, Nov 2004