Dr Jacob Fairhall

Dr Jacob Fairhall is a Sydney-based neurosurgeon with hospital appointments. He has more than ten years’ experience in brain and spine surgery, with particular expertise in brain tumours, cerebrovascular conditions and minimally invasive spine surgery for degenerative spine disease.

He treats a broad range of benign and malignant brain tumours, including gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumours, acoustic neuromas and brain metastases. He also treats aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, steno-occlusive disease and trigeminal neuralgia.

Dr Fairhall obtained his medical degree from the University of New South Wales. After completing his neurosurgical training, he undertook fellowship training in skull base and minimally invasive tumour surgery at the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery. He then completed a further fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Toronto Western Hospital in Canada.

Dr Fairhall has research affiliations with the Garvan Institute and brain cancer research groups, and in quality of life outcomes for older patients with degenerative spine disease. He is Head of Neurosurgery Department at St Vincent’s Hospital, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a member of the Australian Medical Association and Neurosurgical Society of Australia, COGNO, and the Spine Society of Australia.

As part of a multidisciplinary neuro-oncology team, he works closely with medical and radiation oncologists, neurologists, allied health staff and referring GPs. Together they coordinate care for patients with brain and spinal tumours.

Contact details

Ph: 02 8395 4000

Fax: 02 8395 7000

E: info@drjacobfairhall.com.au   / www.drjacobfairhall.com.au