Edith Cowan University
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Mr Chris Lind

Research Interests

Christopher Lind is Functional Neurosurgeon to the West Australian Neurosurgical Service and Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, University of Western Australia. He is the founder and team leader of the Neurofinity Surgical NeuroDiscovery Group with responsibility for all functional neurosurgery services to the state of Western Australia (pop 2.2 M). Both private and public patients are treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Patients with movement disorders have their outpatient care is coordinated by the Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute on the same campus.

Mr Lind research focus is on functional neurosurgery which encompasses surgery for movement disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders and pain. His approach is to collaborate with experienced researchers in the allied fields of neurology, neuropsychiatry, pain management, basic and applied neuroscience and neuroimaging to develop surgical therapies and use surgical approaches to enable improved understanding of how the human brain works in health and disease.

As a functional neurosurgeon with training in deep brain stimulation from Mr Peter Watson in Perth, Western Australia, Mr Lind has experience targeting globus pallidus interna and Vim thalamus. He travelled to Europe in 2007 to gain exposure to subthalamic region stimulation and translational neurosurgical research in Oxford, Bristol, London, The Hague and Roeselare. He trained with Professor Steven Gill and Hunterian Professor Nikunj Patel in the MRI-directed guide-tube technique developed at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, UK which gives the opportunity for exquisite anatomical targeting of structures seen on prolonged MRI sequences under general anaesthesia as well as intraoperative MRI verification of lead location using MRI compatible stylettes.

Selected Publications

  1. Lind CR, Bishara SN, van Rij AM, Fulton J. An audit of carotid endarterectomy for internal carotid artery disease at Dunedin Hospital. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 1998;5:417-420
  2. Gillett GR, Erasmus AM, Lind CRP. CG-clip expansive open-door laminoplasty: a technical note. British Journal of Neurosurgery 1999;13: 405-408
  3. Lind CR, Costello SA, Mathur S, Law AJJ. Stereotactic radiosurgery in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal 2001;114:182-184
  4. Lind CRP, Lind CJ, Mee EW. Reduction in the number of repeated operations for the treatment of subacute and chronic subdural hematomas by placement of subdural drains. Journal of Neurosurgery 2003;99:44-46
  5. Avery GJ, Lind CRP, Bok APL. Successful conservative operative management of pineal apoplexy. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2004;11:667-669
  6. Lind CRP, Heppner PA, Robins TM, Mee EW. Transfer of intubated patients with traumatic brain injury to Auckland City Hospital. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2005;75:858-862
  7. Lind CRP, Muthiah K, Bok APL. Peritumoral Citrobacter koseri abscess associated with parasagittal meningioma. Neurosurgery 2005;57:E814
  8. IHAST Investigators. Mild intraoperative hypothermia during surgery for intracranial aneurysms. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352:135-45
  9. Fountaine T, Lind CRP, Law AJJ. Primary glioblastomas and anaplastic astrocytoma in a glioma family. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2006;13:497-501
  10. Lind CRP, Gray CW, Pearson AG, Cameron RE, O'Carroll SJ, Narayan PJ, Lim J, Dragunow M. The MEK kinase 1/2 inhibitor U0126 induces GFAP expression and reduces the proliferation and migration of C6 glioma cells. Neuroscience 2006;141:1925-1933
  11. Yeoh HK, Lind CRP, Law AJJ. Acute transient cerebellar dysfunction and stuttering following mild closed head injury. Child's Nervous System 2006;22:310-313
  12. Lind CRP, Tsai AMC, Law AJJ, Lau H, Muthiah K. Ventricular catheter trajectories from traditional shunt approaches - a morphometric study in adult hydrocephalus. Journal of Neurosurgery 2008;108:930-933.
  13. Lind CRP, Correia JA, Law AJJ, Kejriwal R. A survey of surgical techniques for catheterising the cerebral lateral ventricles. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2008;15:886-890.

Contact Details

Mr. Christopher Lind
Neurosurgeon
West Australian Neurosurgical Service
1st Floor, G Block
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
QE II Medical Centre
Hospital Avenue
Nedlands, WA, 6009

Telephone   +61 8 9346 3333

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