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And I've been eating either. It's a great honor to invite Professor Ian Purple uh from the Gulf professor, Professor, I'll just mention that for the speakers. If anyone's going to come and speak, if they want to come close to the front, it might be a bit quicker. And which one? Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm very slow right now. I'll carry on. So, okay. It's not working okay. This is not working at all now. Okay. First slide then please. So thank you very much, Nick and thank you to Mario and the organizing committee for fantastic days. Lovely to see old friendly faces. Um Next slide, please. I've got nothing to declare or disclose or admit except I was born in Bristol. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. And next slide, please. I was actually wanting to be a neuro, a footballer rather than a neurosurgeon from a very young age. Next slide, please. It's not going to work very well for you. There we go. So this is um yeah, this is me wasting my childhood playing football in Bristol virtually all the time and winning a cup for the Stoke Bishop primary school. I think Mike Milne nose stoke bishop. Yeah, football of the year to 2011, 2019 6. Uh Yeah. So like George Malcolm, I was the keen Bristol City supporter and I wanted to play for them, but sadly, never got to that stage. Next slide, please. I watched England win the World Cup 57 years ago on a black and white TV. Uh and therefore next slide, please. I was very excited when I was out in Doha. I've really had high hopes for the England team and watched a couple of matches next slide, please. But as usual hopes dashed by terrible penalty taking Harry Kane missing the penalty. Next slide, please. And the French laughing at us knocking us out and very disappointing. Next night, please. This is try and go through these quickly. This is just um my 30 year journey in neurosurgery went from leads to greater Ministry to French and then to a lovely year in Memphis doing the pediatric neurosurgery fellowship back to the functional architecture of French, eh, for as a consultant. But enjoying some years on the Bum Ba Russell unit with a great team and then finally going down to children's hospital and moving towards uh New South need hospital. But using a next slide, please form of transport which I used for many, many years. And uh it was very helpful in saving a lot of time, but I did actually come off, it twice broke a few ribs, uh twisted my knee, did my elbow in, but it saved a lot of money in time. So it was worth it. Next slide, please. So, life at the Coalface was tough towards the end. Uh This is our pediatric hot desk at South Meat Squash between too noisy neighbors. We had uh lovely George Malcolm on the left and the wonderful Dave Sandlin on the right. So it was tough. And, and next side, please. Did I achieve anything in 35 years in the NHS? Well, next slide I tried to build up pediatric neurosurgery in Bristol with the, the band of four Mary musketeers. And uh next slide, please. And then did some whole load of national work. Next slide, please. Trying to improve. Oh, that's not working well, but never mind. I don't, I didn't achieve anything anyway. Next slide, please. Right. So I did. Yeah, just whiz through them. Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, my proudest achievement was actually um as you can see on that slide in the bottom, right. Almost is becoming the presidente of the French, the hospital cricket club. And this was after Brian Cummins retired, retired. And he handed over to me because I was quite good at bowling out the neurologists during the annual neurosurgery versus neurology cricket match. I was good at hitting them for six as well. Uh I enjoyed that. Yeah, next night, please. So, yeah, so bad for long service, which I didn't actually pick up in the end. It was and presented in my absence somewhere. I don't know where, but 35 years with the NHS next slide, please. So Brian Cummins used to say, uh Korean neurosurgery is like running a marathon. You have to pace yourself carefully, which I try to do. Um uh despite uh you know, quite some challenges with family illnesses and things next side, please. But with help from this is Alex Sanford on the leftist, one of my big mentors in pediatric neurosurgery and all the old mentors that you've seen in previous presentations. Uh You have to have them like Dave Sandman said to get through 35 years in the NHS, which I managed to do. And then as um Richard Edwards kindly pointed out next slide, please. You've got to take a step in the right direction if you're coasting into retirement. He, he accused me many times of not, not really focusing as in the last few years. So I have to do something different. Uh Next slide, please next night, please. And so I, I took a few risks. Next slide. It's not working right and, but maybe not quite as many risks as that chap under that car, right? So, um yeah, we'll just repeat that joke. Okay. All right. Okay. So I'll try not to hash this too much. Anyway, we, I got an invitation in 2017 to have an online interview after a head Hunter phone me up. I was at South need having coffee with George. I think that salmon and I got this call and he said, right, well, why don't you come and have a look? And so we went out to Doha. This was in order to set up pediatric epilepsy surgery in Doha in a new hospital, which I didn't know anything about. So let's have the next slide, please. And it was a lovely hospital. It's beautiful architecture. Nothing like anything I'd seen before. Not like French, a particularly Damien Hirst copper sculptures outside going through the embryology of the from egg to birth, which is quite interesting. Um very spacious hospital, more like a hotel than a hospital, but staffed by very dedicated 4000 employees, nurses, everybody. Um and from 98 different nationalities, all speaking different language. So very interesting to have that prospect of working with them. So the plan is to do two years unpaid from the NHS and then see how it went and then if possible stay out for the World Cup, which is my main aim. So next slide, please. I didn't know anything about Qatar. Next slide, please. Uh Except it's a small country, tiny country was about to host the World Cup, which was the main positive point for me, it was under a blockade which is another risk factor at the time, it was being blockaded by surrounding countries and it had to fly in 50,000 cows from, from Holland and become self sufficient with its own milk, lots of chickens and now it grows its own vegetables in the desert. So it's quite amazing what effect a siege does for a country anyway. So next slide, please. So um we visited in, in January 2018, it was quite intensive interviewing for me, but Judith had a nice look brand and we were entertained next slide, please. Uh in wined and dined in the nobu restaurant in Doha is lovely uh meal with uh David cigarette who see head of surgery at the time is a Canadian professor of pediatric surgery who's activating the the whole service. And on the left, you can see Khalid Alcaraz, see my my future career few colleague at the time with his wife Samira and uh and the accommodation we were going to have. It's going to be this tall building, the orange building at the bottom called the Fraser Sweet were on the 44th floor, we were going to be on there. So it all looked very promising next night, please. But anyway, we did the risk analysis. Um The big factor was friends and family and old colleagues and the biggest draw was the World Cup and a bit of money as well to be quite honest. And as Rick sternly warned me, people tend to forget about you quickly when you leave and I wasn't too bothered about that. I wasn't too bothered. Right. Next slide, please. So the decision was more emotional and as Judith floating down a gondola in the middle of a lovely shopping center in Doha. Uh next side, it was a no brainer for her and for my family, they were very attracted by the potential financial benefits. And for me, it's a World Cup coming and and the adventure of going out there. So next slide please. So the test of motivation is next slide, please. Oh, that's a shame. Next slide please. Outside back, back, one back one. So it didn't, it hasn't come up with the, the list of 22 admin tasks that you have to go through a huge amount of work to, to get through. Um all the, all the kind of, I don't know, checks and screens and police checks and all sorts of things that you have to go through. But I took me six months to get through that and towards the end, I was just about to give up. And the next side please, who eventually got out there in August 2018. Very tough on call to begin with one in two stroke, one in one on occasion uh with difficult patient's. I was, I was in an on court room. It's back to being an sho again. Uh which was interesting. So I'm going to have to rush you a little bit there. Uh What's that? Have to rush you a bit now? Oh, sorry, I'm sorry. Right. We'll just whiz through the rest. Yeah. Okay. So I, I, we set up everything and next time, please. Good, good neurologist. Good neuro radiologist. Next one, please. If I had this thing working, I would have gone about 50 times quicker, but never mind my fault. Right. So we did our first case, January 2019. Next case took out a great big chunk of brain out of this two year old little girl made a seizure free. Next one please. I've done 43 cases so far. Next one. Mhm. Um Got a good team. Now, Jordanian Yemeni uh Sudanese as well. Um A ways Jilani came out briefly to help us with a few cases. The beginning next one. Um it's been great working as a team and that's a waffle, waffle. Next one. But we've we've had a great series of Bristol people out here in Doha and it's been great working with them. Jenny's now work in the same hospital with a couple of others. Next one, please. It's great to have a good office rather than the hot desk and a nice view from the flat. Uh Next one please. And it's good to, to seek the Arabic culture to enjoy the food. The camels milk was particularly frothy and warm and creamy. Very nice. I didn't try the camels urine, which is uh next one, please. And you've got to be careful with your budgeting. Uh The first two years it's, it's easy to spend money. Next one, please. I brought a car for self protection. It's bad on the roads. Next one, please. And I joined a choir, blah, blah, blah. Next one please, you can do all sorts of things, uh, in, uh, Doha. It's not just for shopping, it's good for all sorts of things. Um, ice hockey bottom. And I didn't do that, but never mind. And, um, next one please, but the pinnacle of the whole experience was the World Cup, of course. So I had my, my daughter, Becky come out from America. My son came out from England and was interviewed after a terrible performance by England by a local reporter which he didn't mince his words, which is good. And this is Judith and imaging outside the Al Bayt Stadium, one of the lovely stadiums in Doha after another, another England match, next one last, last coming up. And I did actually see the World Cup final in person, not England this time, but at least the French were beaten. Yeah, so that was for me, that was the experience of the pinnacle of my experiences. Next, next line, next, next one. so financial cultural professional, but it's hot, very hot for five months of the year and life is still very uncertain and pretty unpredictable out there as, as an employee, as next pack, next one, last one. Uh So for whatever you do try to make the best of it. And you're welcome out in Doha if you're even if you're passing by. So not, that's not coming up. Oh, there we are shocked ground to tier two Hakim Jamjoom. Thank you. Thank you, Mr Poeple. Uh.