Scott Rutherford is a consultant neurosurgeon in Manchester, where he has worked since 2006. He has a wide neurosurgical practice including spinal degenerative disease and benign brain and spine tumours. His subspecialty interest is skull base surgery, which is the management of tumours arising at the base of the brain including vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas) and meningiomas. He leads the Manchester skull base unit which is one of the largest in the UK. He also has expertise in the management of trigeminal neuralgia, Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and auditory brainstem implants.