Title: Consultant Spinal Surgeon and Lead Clinician for Spinal Cancer in the Trust

Department: Derby Spinal Unit, Department of Orthopaedics

Location: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Research Interests: Spinal Microscopic Surgery for Lumbar Discectomy and Decompressions, Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery, Outcomes of Spinal surgery in Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Metastatic Spinal Disease, Cervical Myelopathy Surgery in Octogenarians and Nonagenarians, Kyphoplasty for Osteoporotic fractures, Cervical disc Replacement Vs Cervical discectomy and fusion for Radiculopathy, Spinal infections and rare presentations of Cervical epidural abscess, Cell salvage in Spinal Surgery

Teaching Interests: He regularly teaches medical students, Orthopaedics trainees and gives lectures in GP CME programme

Author's Works

• Magnifying loupes versus microscope for microdiscectomy and microdecompression., 2012-12-01
• Coccydynia - could age, trauma and body mass index be independent prognostic factors for outcomes of intervention?, 2018-01-01
• Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: the outcome and potential complications of surgical treatment., 2013-01-01
• Otolaryngological complications of occipitocervical injury., 2014-11-01
• Impact of the quantity of intradiscal cement leak on the progression of intervertebral disc degeneration., 2017-09-01
• Early results after vertebral body stenting for fractures of the anterior column of the thoracolumbar spine., 2011-10-01
• Tertiary syphilis in the cervical spine: a case report and review of the literature., 2013-03-01
• Cervical epidural abscess mimicking as stroke - report of two cases., 2014-01-01
• A study investigating the validity of modified Tokuhashi score to decide surgical intervention in patients with metastatic spinal cancer., 2013-03-01
• The Derby parallax technique for marking levels in thoracic spinal surgery., 2014-04-01