Dr Jason McMillen is an Australian trained neurosurgeon with a longstanding commitment to providing quality health care to Queensland. He graduated from medical school in Queensland, and undertook Royal Australasian College of Surgeons specialty neurosurgery training in hospitals around Australia, including Adelaide, Townsville, Melbourne and Brisbane. He completed research into minimally invasive spinal techniques during this period. He was awarded his Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in adult and paediatric neurosurgery and spine surgery. After completing his neurosurgical training, he undertook a substantial period of further post fellowship advanced training at the prestigious Cambridge University Addenbrooke’s Hospital in the United Kingdom, specialising in cerebrovascular surgery and neurotraumatology.
Since returning from the United Kingdom to his hometown of Brisbane, Dr McMillen has worked as a consultant neurosurgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where he previously held the position of Director of Neurosurgery. He assisted with the development of a neurosurgical service in Royal Darwin Hospital. He is involved in the training and supervision of advanced neurosurgical trainees for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, and is active in ongoing education and research through the University of Queensland and research facilities, at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and with the Brisbane Clinical Neurosciences Centre’s collaborative research projects. He has numerous publications in the scientific literature and international neurosurgery textbooks, and remains up to date with the latest techniques and research. Dr McMillen consults at the Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre, and conducts a regular outreach clinic in Rockhampton. He is available for telehealth consultations.
Dr McMillen has particular expertise in the complex area of cerebrovascular surgery, including the surgical management of brain aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), and is credentialled to offer this subspeciality expertise to the Queensland Children’s Hospital. He can offer a full multi-disciplinary assessment and all treatment options for these conditions through the Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre, unique in the private healthcare sector in Queensland. Dr McMillen’s other areas of expertise are cranial and spinal neurosurgery including minimally invasive spinal surgery and neuro-oncology. He has extensive experience in advanced brain tumour surgery techniques including fluorescence guided brain tumour resection.
Along with other surgeons at the Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre, Dr McMillen is expert in minimally invasive spinal surgical techniques including robot assisted fusion techniques, recognising the significant advantages to his patients of reduced pain and earlier recovery with these approaches, and is involved in the advanced training of neurosurgeons from Australia and overseas in these techniques. Of course, Dr McMillen is trained in all areas of neurosurgical care, including the management of hydrocephalus, peripheral nerve conditions, and pain syndromes such as trigeminal neuralgia, and he utilises world leading technologies and facilities to offer his patients the best possible outcomes for all neurosurgical conditions.