Consultant Radiologist · FRCR · GMC Specialist Register

Dr Suraj MenonNeuroradiology · Spine · Musculoskeletal

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.

Consultant Radiologist, Wye Valley NHS Trust · Hereford County Hospital
MSK Radiology Lead · Radiology Research Lead · Private sessions, Nuffield Hereford

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Fig. 1 — Dr Menon through the ages.

15
calendar years in the log
3,166
studies in the peak reporting year, 2013–14
9
EBNR examination modules passed
129
CPD courses in the master workbook, 2011–2025
1,500+
European CME credits logged
12+
personal audits led

Practice

Three disciplines, held by one reader — the generalist base of a consultant job, sharpened into European-examined subspecialty depth.

Neuroradiology

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.

  • ECHNR M1 & M2 — passed, 2020 & 2024
  • ECNR M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 — all four passed, 2022–2025
  • ECINR M3, vascular — passed, Istanbul 2023
  • Erasmus Head & Neck MRI — Brugge, 28 EACCME

4,510

head · brain · neck studies in the log

Spine

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.

  • ECiSR Spine M1 & M2 — passed, Porto 2022 · Athens 2023
  • ESSR · ESNR Spine M2 + workshop — Athens 2023
  • European Course on Spine Radiology — Porto 2022
  • Cervical-stenosis MRI protocols — in daily use

1,613

dedicated spine studies, 2014–2026

Musculoskeletal

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.

  • MSK Radiology Lead — Wye Valley NHS Trust
  • Arthrogram practice — with personal audit data
  • Cadaveric MSK intervention — Oswestry, 2019
  • MSK workshop — AIIMS Mangalagiri, 2025

5,686

limb studies — 3,007 lower · 2,679 upper

Gynaecology

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.

  • Gynae MDT — weekly imaging review; logged 2021–22, renewed 2025–26
  • Emergency cover — documented MDT stand-ins, 2019
  • Gynae-onc biopsies — PLAY audit, 29 procedures, 2023–24
  • Gynae cancer imaging masterclass — 2013 · ICIS gynae imaging, 2017
  • ESUR urogenital symposium — Barcelona, 2018

41

weekly gynae-MDT imaging reviews logged, 2021–22

The Record

Volume is not the point. But volume, logged honestly over fifteen years, is evidence — of a practice that kept reading.

The consultant log — by trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust2014–202619,619
Blackpool Victoria Hospital2012–146,159

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.

By modality

Computed tomography8,365
MRISubspecialty core6,233
Ultrasound1,714
X-ray2,160
Fluoroscopy68

By body region

MSK limbs5,686
Head · brain · neck4,510
Chest2,944
Abdomen · pelvis2,659

Grouped totals, personal reporting log 2012–2026

Registrar era — preserved logs

RIS export, Royal Blackburn2011566
SPET–angiography concordance 2007214
Liver-biopsy audit201050
RA extremity-ultrasound study2010–1149

Training-era figures (Jan–May 2011 window) kept separate from the consultant log — different hospital systems, different counting rules.

Private ledger — Nuffield Hereford

MRI80%1,830
CT217
X-ray176
Arthrograms25

2,296 studies, Nov 2014 – Apr 2026 — confirmed against the password-protected SM reports ledger; a subset of the master log, not additional

Evidence

European subspecialty examinations, passed on the record — beside the qualifications, output and roles that carry them.

EBNR · European Board examination record

ECHNR Module 1 — head & neckpass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Online

2020

Pass

ECiSR Spine Module 1 — spine radiologypass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Porto

2022

Pass

ECNR Module 4 — degenerative · metabolic · inflammatorypass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Berlin

2022

Pass

ECiSR Spine Module 2 — spine radiologypass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Athens

2023

Pass

ECINR Module 3 — vascular anatomy & pathophysiologypass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Istanbul

2023

Pass

ECNR Module 2 — tumourspass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Berlin

2023

Pass

ECHNR Module 2 — head & neckpass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Ljubljana

2024

Pass

ECNR Module 1 — anatomy & embryologypass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Valencia

2024

Pass

ECNR Module 3 — vascular diseasespass cert ↗cme cert ↗

Valencia

2025

Pass

Qualifications

1999MBBS — University of Kerala, Trivandrum Medical Collegecertificate ↗
2000–01Fellowship in Emergency Medicine — RCGP / Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabadcertificate ↗
2005MRCS — Member, Royal College of Surgeonscertificate ↗BC
2009FRCR — Fellow, Royal College of Radiologistscertificate ↗
2011Specialist Register, Clinical Radiology — GMC, 28 Oct 2011CCT ↗verify ↗
2019Postgraduate Diploma, Medical Ultrasound — Bournemouth Universitycertificate ↗

Posters & presentations

2004Reverse-oblique intertrochanteric fractures — Academic Day, Queen Mary's Sidcup
2006Journal club — "Tuberculosis from head to foot" (AJR), Salford
2007ASNR — CNS tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS, pictorial review (Hope Hospital)
2007UKRC — acquired leukoencephalopathy, educational poster
2008RSNA — three posters: "Enucleation sign" HCC review · named signs in uroradiology · residents' acute-abdomen AXR guide
2008CIRSE Foundation, Florence — portal-vein embolisation: a resident's perspective
2009CIRSE Lisbon — vascular closure devices, educational e-poster P-405
2009BSIR Brighton — splenic artery embolisation in pancreatitis, case report
2010RSNA — two MSK posters; "Unravelling the mystery of the bicipital sling" — Certificate of Merit
2011ECR Vienna — "The ten-minute ultrasound examination of the rheumatoid hand" (with W Bhatti)
2011UKRC — milestones and current frontiers of musculoskeletal radiology
2013Prostate Imaging — oral presentation, Lancashire Cancer Network

Conferences & courses — selected

2007AFIP radiologic-pathology course — Washington, DC (four weeks)
2008CIRSE Foundation ET/ECIO, Florence · GE IR meeting, London · IR: The Basics, Plymouth
2009CIRSE, Lisbon · North-West Interventional Radiology Club, Warrington
2010Global Embolization Symposium, San Francisco · CX vascular access, St George's London · CELT leadership, Grange-over-Sands
2011ECR, Vienna
2008–18RSNA assemblies, Chicago — 2008 · 2010 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018

Beyond the reading room

  • Radiology Research Lead — Wye Valley NHS Trust
  • MSK Radiology Lead — departmental subspecialty lead
  • PACS Lead representative — West Midlands Network meetings
  • Gynae MDT imaging support — alternative strategies, follow-up planning

81.8%

of FY2 trainees rated a 2025 radiology teaching session excellent — the remaining 18.2% rated it good.

Governance

Pulled from the appraisal folders as filed: protocols authored, risks escalated early, and colleagues and the service covered.

Guidelines & protocols

  • Brachial plexus MR protocol — authored from the Radiographics review and issued into the departmental MRI protocol review (2017)
  • MR arthrography contrast governance — when UK Magnevist supply ended, a formal pharmacovigilance query to the manufacturer settled intra-articular use, licensing and dilution practice (2024)
  • On-call intervention scope — proposed a live competency matrix with minimum annual volumes before committing out-of-hours procedures (2016)
  • Cervical-stenosis MRI protocols — written into daily departmental practice
  • Gynae pathway input — protocol-level imaging advice at MDT, e.g. the CT-urogram pathway where MRI is contraindicated (2021)

Audits with verified datasets

  • MR arthrography radiation-burden audit — Trust audit no. 1366, 99 studies (2016–17)
  • PLAY gynae/pelvic biopsy audit — 29 procedures (2023–24)
  • Urgent imaging & chest radiograph communication — completed (2020)
  • BTS pulmonary nodules · thyroid nodules — departmental audits (2017–19)
  • Registrar-era verified datasets — RA extremity-ultrasound study (49 studies, 2010–11) · liver-biopsy audit (50 consecutive, 2010) · myocardial SPET–angiography concordance (214 studies, 2007)
  • Nine further registrar audits — teleradiology out-of-hours, shoulder imaging vs arthroscopy, MRI brain after normal CT, varicocele embolisation, IRMER CXR compliance, CT head in head injury, MSK ultrasound patient satisfaction, acromiohumeral distance study, discrepancy-log practice (registrar-era log preserved from 2006–10)

Safety & discrepancy practice

  • Personal discrepancy logs — maintained 2017–2026; annual learning-from-discrepancy attendance
  • Datix submissions — incident and risk reporting with closed-loop documentation (2018 · 2020)
  • System-risk escalation — contrast-agent governance, on-call provision, workflow issues: documented, proposed, actioned

Colleagues & the service

  • Consultant appointment panels — shortlisting and interviewing consultant radiologists for NHS England (2023)
  • Emergency gynae-MDT cover and cross-site gynae reporting for Gloucestershire's CGH MDT (2019)
  • Medico-legal assistance — imaging-systems input to the Trust's legal team (2017)
  • Physician Grand Round — facilitation and attendance across years (2019–24)
  • Repeat FY1 sessions by request — appendicular trauma, lower limb, hip/AXR/CXR (2023–25)
  • Documented thanks — referrer letters for prompt reporting and second-opinion reads (2016–17)

The Path

Kerala to Hereford, via Hyderabad, Manchester and Blackpool — twenty-five years in medicine, fifteen as a consultant.

1999

MBBS

University of Kerala — Trivandrum Medical College, India.

2000–01

Fellowship in Emergency Medicine

RCGP / Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad.

2003–05

SHO — Trauma & Orthopaedics · A&E Teaching Fellow

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Great Western Swindon, Queen Mary's Sidcup, Isle of Wight.

2005–11

Specialist Registrar in Radiology

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).

2009

FRCR

Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists.

2011–14

Consultant Radiologist

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — first consultant post; Specialist Register entry, October 2011.

2014 — now

Consultant Radiologist

Wye Valley NHS Trust — Hereford County Hospital. MSK Lead, Research Lead, on-call and MDT practice.

Correspondence

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.

Base
Herefordshire, United Kingdom
NHS
Wye Valley NHS Trust — Hereford County Hospital
Private
Nuffield Hereford · Bupa · Aviva · Vitality
Registration
GMC 6050680 · Specialist Register, Clinical Radiology (2011) · verify