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
• Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: the outcome and potential complications of surgical treatment., 2013-01-01
• Impact of the quantity of intradiscal cement leak on the progression of intervertebral disc degeneration., 2017-09-01
• Coccydynia - could age, trauma and body mass index be independent prognostic factors for outcomes of intervention?, 2018-01-01
• Otolaryngological complications of occipitocervical injury., 2014-11-01
• The Derby parallax technique for marking levels in thoracic spinal surgery., 2014-04-01
• Arachnoiditis following caudal epidural injections for the lumbo-sacral radicular pain., 2013-12-01
• Spinal subdural hematoma as a complication of spinal surgery: can it happen without dural tear?, 2013-05-01
• A study investigating the validity of modified Tokuhashi score to decide surgical intervention in patients with metastatic spinal cancer., 2013-03-01
• Role of intraoperative red cell salvage and autologus transfusion in metastatic spine surgery: a pilot study and review of literature., 2013-09-01