Dr Stavros Koustais is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based at Aretaeio Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus. His CV is dated September 2025.
He trained across four countries. He earned a BSc in Neuroscience (2000) and MBBS (2004) from University College London, a Master of Surgery (2012) from Macquarie University in Sydney, and completed further training through RCSI in Dublin (2015–2017). He holds the MRCS (2021) and FRCS in Surgical Neurology (2023), and is medically registered in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Cyprus.
His most recent post was a Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Fellowship at Beaumont Hospital and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in Dublin (2023–2025). Before that, he progressed through registrar and senior registrar roles in neurosurgery at Beaumont from 2016 to 2023, with earlier registrar appointments in Australia (Nepean, Wollongong, Macquarie) and New Zealand (Wellington, Hutt). His early career included rotations in general, vascular, cardiothoracic, ENT, and orthopaedic surgery, plus emergency medicine and intensive care.
His clinical and academic focus is cerebrovascular and skull base neurosurgery, particularly arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), aneurysms, and syringomyelia. He has conducted numerous audits at Beaumont on AVM microsurgical resection outcomes in adult and paediatric populations, and on exoscope versus microscope techniques. His publication record includes around eleven peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, covering AVM embolization outcomes, syringomyelia treatment, and exoscope use, appearing in journals such as the Journal of Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery, and British Journal of Neurosurgery.
His achievements include winning the 8th Henry Osborne Prize (2024) and the Registrars’ First Prize at the IICN Annual Meeting (2022). He has completed extensive professional courses in vascular and skull base neurosurgery, including training at the Barrow Neurological Institute. He also served as a Second Lieutenant in the Cyprus Army (1995–1997).
