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Dr Elouise Donaldson

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  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

GMC/GDC number:

7329047

Professional background

Dr Elouise Donaldson is a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist working at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Dr Donaldson completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc Hons First Class) in Medicine at the University of St Andrews in 2010 followed by the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) at the University of Edinburgh in 2013.

Prior to commencing her specialty Anaesthetics training, Dr Donaldson completed a 6-month Junior Clinical Fellow post in Neurocritical Care at St George’s Hospital London (2016). She successfully completed her Anaesthetics training within the South West London and North West London (Imperial School of Anaesthesia) deaneries (2025). This included 12 months special interest training in Neuroanaesthesia at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (2024-2025). Following this, Dr Donaldson was appointed a Consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (2026).

Dr Donaldson has expertise in anaesthesia for complex cranial and spinal neurosurgery as well as for interventional neuroradiology procedures both in the elective and emergency setting.

In addition, Dr Donaldson also has multiple academic interests and was awarded a position on the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology Editorial Board Fellowship Programme in January 2026.

Clinical interests:

  • Anaesthesia for cranial neurosurgery
  • Anaesthesia for epilepsy surgery
  • Anaesthesia for spinal neurosurgery including preoperative optimisation of patients undergoing complex spinal surgery
  • Anaesthesia for interventional neuroradiology procedures
  • Quality improvement

Specialties

Research interests

  • Anaesthesia for cranial and spinal neurosurgery
  • Preoperative optimisation of patients undergoing complex spinal surgery

Publications

•    Donaldson ES, Carter EL. Applied Cerebral Physiology. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, 2025; 26(10): 683-688. doi: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2025.08.007

•    Donaldson E, Bapat S, Reddy U, Luoma V. Postoperative outcomes after complex instrumented spinal surgery at a quaternary-level neurosurgical centre. Abstracts From the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, September 12-14, 2025. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol, 38(1):p e1-e55, January 2026. doi: 10.1097/ANA.0000000000001066

•    Donaldson E, Wilson S. Current anaesthesia practice for intracranial neurosurgical procedures in the sitting position at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). Abstracts from the Neuro Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2025. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol, 38(2):p e56-e66, April 2026. doi: 10.1097/ANA.0000000000001103

•    Donaldson E. Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC) Neuroanesthesiology Fellows Journal Club. SNACC Summer Newsletter 2025 and SNACC Winter Newsletter 2024. https://snacc.org/jna-editors-pick/ and https://snacc.org/neuroanesthesiology-fellows-journal-club-summer2025/

•    Amin K, Donaldson E, Kalbag A. Are our patients opioid aware? An audit of take-home analgesia at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Abstracts of WSM 2023, 12–13 January 2023, London. Anaesthesia, 78(S1): 6-62. doi: 10.1111/anae.15924

•    Coughlan C, Nafde C, Khodatars S, Jeanes AL, Habib S, Donaldson E, Besi C, Kooner GK. COVID-19: Lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care. Postgrad Med J, 2021; 97(1145): 188-191. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138100

•    Morton S, Donaldson E. NAP6 on anaphylaxis: are anaesthetists caught napping when results are released? Abstracts of WSM 2020 8-10 January 2020, London. Anaesthesia, 75(S2): 9-98. doi: 10.1111/anae.14953