Michael Jenkinson is Sir John Fisher Foundation and Royal College of Surgeons of England Chair of Surgical Trials, Professor of Neurosurgery and Honorary consultant neurosurgeon at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust. He is co-director of the North West Surgical Trials Centre.
He chairs the Academic Committee of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and the EORTC Meningioma Committee.
His research interests include meningioma and cerebral metastasis, and clinical studies on quality of life in brain tumours. He is the chief investigator for the international, multi-centre ROAM-1308 trial (Radiation versus Observation following surgical resection of Atypical Meningioma), STOP ‘EM (Surgeons Trial Of Prophylaxis for Epilepsy in Meningioma) and SPRING (Seizure Prophylaxis In Glioma).