Michael Jenkinson is Sir John Fisher Foundation and Royal College of Surgeons of England Chair of Surgical Trials and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.  He is a NIHR Senior Investigateor and a co-director of the North West Surgical Trials Centre.

He is the Vice President for Research, Impact and Innovation for the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) and chairs the EORTC Meningioma Committee.

He leads the Liverpool Academic Neurosurgery Group and is the chief investigator on several NIHR trials including the international, multi-centre ROAM-1308 trial (Radiation versus Observation following surgical resection of Atypical Meningioma) and STOP ‘EM (Surgeons Trial Of Prophylaxis for Epilepsy in Meningioma).