Consultant Radiologist · FRCR · GMC Specialist Register
Pixels, patterns, and possibility: where human eyes meet machine vision.
Clinical Radiology · est. 2011 Herefordshire, United Kingdom GMC 6050680
25,778 studies
personally reported and logged, 2012 – 2026. Fifteen calendar years of consultant reading — one reader, one standard.
Fig. 1 — Dr Menon through the ages.
Three disciplines, held by one reader — the generalist base of a consultant job, sharpened into European-examined subspecialty depth.
Emergency neuro CT at scale — 880 CT heads read in a single three-year window — on a European foundation: the full head-and-neck examination pair and the ECNR core cycle, passed module by module.
4,510
head · brain · neck studies in the log
The European spine pathway, end to end — ECiSR examination passed, both spine modules with hands-on workshops, and cervical-stenosis MRI protocol work built for daily practice.
1,613
dedicated spine studies, 2014–2026
Departmental MSK Radiology Lead at Wye Valley. Arthrography with personal audit, cadaveric intervention training, and regular teaching to foundation doctors — a registrar interest grown into a lead role.
5,686
limb studies — 3,007 lower · 2,679 upper
Imaging support to the weekly gynae-oncology MDT — attendance logged year on year, documented emergency cover, and cross-site referrals shared with Gloucestershire's CGH MDT.
41
weekly gynae-MDT imaging reviews logged, 2021–22
Volume is not the point. But volume, logged honestly over fifteen years, is evidence — of a practice that kept reading.
Fig. 2 — Working totals, not a per-year plot: yearly volumes moved with job plans and personal circumstances, and the trend line is not the story here. The Wye Valley 2014–16 figures undercount real activity — studies written under a second, parallel login those first three years were never exported into the personal log. BVH figures are April–March reporting years and include waiting-list-initiative CT and MR. Source: personal reporting log; 2026 to May.
Grouped totals, personal reporting log 2012–2026
Training-era figures (Jan–May 2011 window) kept separate from the consultant log — different hospital systems, different counting rules.
2,296 studies, Nov 2014 – Apr 2026 — confirmed against the password-protected SM reports ledger; a subset of the master log, not additional
European subspecialty examinations, passed on the record — beside the qualifications, output and roles that carry them.
EBNR · European Board examination record
81.8%
of FY2 trainees rated a 2025 radiology teaching session excellent — the remaining 18.2% rated it good.
Pulled from the appraisal folders as filed: protocols authored, risks escalated early, and colleagues and the service covered.
Kerala to Hereford, via Hyderabad, Manchester and Blackpool — twenty-five years in medicine, fifteen as a consultant.
University of Kerala — Trivandrum Medical College, India.
RCGP / Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad.
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Great Western Swindon, Queen Mary's Sidcup, Isle of Wight.
Manchester Radiology Training School rotation — Blackpool, Manchester Royal Infirmary (incl. nuclear medicine and rest-of-rotation lead), Preston, Blackburn, Salford/Hope, North Manchester, Wythenshawe, Bolton, Royal Children's Pendlebury. Includes a four-week AFIP radiologic-pathology course, Washington DC (2007), and a 566-study final-year RIS export at Royal Blackburn (Jan–May 2011).
Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — first consultant post; Specialist Register entry, October 2011.
Wye Valley NHS Trust — Hereford County Hospital. MSK Lead, Research Lead, on-call and MDT practice.
For reporting cover, subspecialty opinion or private imaging appointments — the fastest route is email.
Write, and it gets read —
usually within a day.
Private imaging sessions run at Nuffield Hereford. Registered with Bupa and Aviva Vitality; NHS practice at Hereford County Hospital.