The Leslie Oliver Oration is held annually at the Queen's Hospital

Queen's Hospital

Queen's Hospital is a new hospital in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering in London, England. It was built on the former Oldchurch Park, a short distance south of the town centre...

, London. The lectures are named after Leslie Oliver who founded the Neurosurgical Unit at Oldchurch Hospital in Essex in 1945. In addition, he was one of the early practitioners of functional neurosurgery in the United Kingdom, writing several articles on the surgical management of Parkinson’s disease.

Each year an eminent researcher in the field of neurological sciences is invited to present the lecture.

The Lectures

January 2008 - Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...

 - Inaugural Lecture.

January 2009 - Angela Vincent

Angela Vincent

Angela Vincent is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University. She is the head of a research group, which is located in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and working on a wide range of biological disciplines encompassing molecular biology, biochemistry, cellular immunology...

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January 2010 - Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)

Henry Thomas Marsh, CBE, FRCS is a leading British neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine.Marsh attended the Dragon School in Oxford....

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January 2011 - Robert Will.