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2024/01/25
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Adj Asst Prof Swati Jain

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Designations:

  • Consultant, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital
  • Consultant, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of General Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Consultant, National University Spine Institute, National University Health System
  • Consultant, Division of Surgical Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore

Qualifications:

B.Eng (Hons), MD, MRCSEd, FRCSEd (SN), PhD (Cantab), DCCM, DTMH

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Neurosurgery

Special Interests:

Awake craniotomy for brain tumours, endoscopic resection of pituitary tumours, skull base tumours, degenerative spinal disease, spinal tumours

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Dr. Swati Jain is currently a Consultant in the Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital. She completed her bachelors degree in biomedical engineering at National University of Singapore in 2010 and subsequently pursued medicine at Duke-NUS Medical School. She was accepted into the neurosurgical residency program at National University Health System in 2015, completing the residency program in 2021. She graduated with the highest scores in the exit examination (Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons (Ediburgh) in Surgical Neurology). She completed a one year neurotrauma fellowship at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom under the supervision of Prof Peter Hutchinson, Mr. Adel Helmy and Mr. Ivan Timofeev. Her neurosurgical practice focuses on neuro-oncology, skull base tumours, degenerative spine and neurotrauma. She completed her PhD in functional neuroimaging at University of Cambridge in 2026. She has devoted time in improving neurotrauma care in resource limited settings and for that she has pursued two diplomas - Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Diploma in Medicine in Conflict & Catastrophe. She has completed the Future Leaders in Surgery Program at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

Awards

  • Gold Medal for Highest Scores in FRCSEd (Surgical Neurology) Exam 2021 (given on 17/11/2022)
  • Best PhD presentation award in 2025 at University of Cambridge 

Journals & Publications

1. Swati Jain, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Stephen Price “A Rapid FMRI Paradigm for Localisation of the Language Network”, European Journal of Neurosciences, Feb 2026
2. Neha Ramu, Swati Jain, Tamara Tajsic, Samir Matloob, Daniel Brown, Adel Helmy, Rikin Trivedi “Recovery of Oculomotor Nerve Palsy After Treatment of Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms: Have the Outcomes Changed?”, Cureus, Nov 2025
3. Swati Jain, with British Neurovascular Group, AVM registry working group “Early analysis of data from the British & Irish Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Registry (BIBAR)”, Brain & Spine, Nov 2025
4. Prabhjot Malhotra, Swati Jain, Adel Helmy “The Use of Mixed Reality in Training Trainers—A Single-Centre Study”, Applied Sciences, 2025
5. Stephen J. Price; Jasmine G. Hughes; Swati Jain; Caroline Kelly; Ioana Sederias; Francesca M. Cozzi; Jawad Fares; Yonghao Li; Jasmine Kennedy; Roxanne Mayrand et al “Precision Surgery for Glioblastomas”, Journal of Personalized Medicine 2025
6. Swati Jain; Adel Helmy; Thomas Santarius; Nicola Owen; Kirsty Grieve; Peter Hutchinson; Ivan Timofeev “Customised pre-operative cranioplasty to achieve maximal surgical resection of tumours with osseous involvement—a case series”, Acta Neurochirurgica, 2024
7. Swati Jain; Ivan Timofeev; Ramez Wadie Kirollos; Adel Helmy “Use of Mixed Reality in Neurosurgery Training”, World Neurosurgery, 2023
8. Swati Jain , Thanasis Paschalis, Tilak Das, Adel Helmy “Giant aneurysm arising from a cortical middle cerebral artery branch presenting as an extra-axial tumour: a case report”, Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2023
9. Swati Jain, Tamara Tajsic, Tilak Das, Yujia Gao, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Tseng Tsai Yeo, Martin Graves, Adel Helmy “Assessment of Accuracy of Mixed Reality Device for Neuronavigation: Proposed Methodology and Results” Neurosurgery Practice, 2023
10. Swati Jain; Yujia Gao, Tseng Tsai Yeo, Kee Yuan Ngiam “Use of Mixed Reality in Neuro-Oncology: A Single Centre Experience”, Life, 2023

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

2026/07/31
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