I am a spinal surgeon with a CCT in neurosurgery, with advanced fellowships in spinal surgery from both Cardiff and Oxford. I have previously worked as a consultant spinal surgeon in Cardiff for six months before moving back to Oxford for my family. I’m currently doing a spinal fellowship in minimally invasive spinal surgery at Oxford to build on the endoscopic skill set I developed as a consultant in Wales. 

I am a safe, effective, and efficient spinal surgeon with proven independent endoscopic and robotic skills and consultant level experience of decompressing and instrumenting the spine anywhere from occiput to sacrum, including lateral and anterior techniques. 

I’m also passionate about leadership, teaching, and improving local systems. 

I led Oxford Neurosurgeries incredibly successful junior clinical fellowship program, organised post graduate spinal surgery and neurosurgery teaching programs, and I was integral in ending Oxford Neurosurgeries GMC enhanced monitoring.

I believe strongly in investing locally from the ground up and have led multiple morale enhancing, safety improvement, and money saving system changes during my career. 

At work my proudest achievement's include:

The Oxford Neurosurgery Junior Clinical Fellowship program - I created this competitive program in 2018. At its peak over 900 people applied for 8 roles. 27 JCFs have graduated into neurosurgical training across 10 deaneries, including 2 top ranking trainees at national selection. This program produces safe and effective young doctors many of who go onto successful surgical careers and I am extremely proud of all of them. 

Integral role in ending my unit's GMC enhanced monitoring - this process had been ongoing since 2011. I joined in 2016 at the peak of the crises when the GMC were threatening to remove trainees. Working with my consultant's and two other trainees I collected data, worked with stakeholders, and built an effective vision to drive culture change. NTNs came out of enhanced monitoring in 2019 followed by foundation trainees in 2020. I received letters of commendation from the Dean of Thames Valley and the GMC Quality Committee. 

Teaching program - I run our post graduate teaching program, including our very successful anatomy away days at Oxford University dissection room. I have been nominated for educator of the month 12 times and invited to teach regionally by intensive care and geriatric medicine. With a close friend I co-founded "Getting into Neurosurgery", also known as GIN, a not for profit coaching program that has widened participation in neurosurgery. 

Quality improvement and patient safety - I believe strongly in investing locally from the ground up and have led multiple morale enhancing, safety improvement, and money saving system changes during my training. These include an online induction platform, a bespoke handover system (STOP) on our proprietary referral platform (OARS), an effective weekend handover system and bleep cascade reminder, an increase in regular SHO staffing by over 100% enabling  the ST2s and ST3s to get off the SHO rota and fast track early years training, and creating an electronic workflow that has remained in place for over 7 years. 

I have been nominated for a range of trust awards including Oxford University Hospitals Trainer of the Month, Leader of the Year, and Doctor of the Year.

I have a 1st author novel science publication in the Journal of Biomechanics and have presented and published elsewhere. 

I completed the FRCS in 2023 and I'm currently an Integra Foundation sponsored candidate on the RCS Edinburgh Future Leaders Program. 

I'm now doing a national post CCT fellowship to level up my surgical skillset so that I can go on to practice as a happy and constructive part of a consultant team. 

I CCTed in August 2024. I hope you find the information on this website useful if your considering hiring me, but please get in contact if you have any questions.