Mr Nigel Gummerson

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Spire Elland Hospital (present)
• Clinical lead for spinal surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2009 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Back pain
• Sciatica
• Scoliosis
• Spinal stenosis
• Lumbar spinal surgery 
• Scheuermann's kyphosis
• Acute spine trauma
• Cervical myelopathy
• Metastatic spinal disease
• Spinal infection
• Adult and paediatric spinal deformity
• Degenerative thoracic and lumbar conditions
• Lumbar back pain
• Radicular pain
• Spondylolisthesis
• Coccygectomy
• Instrumental spinal fusion (with or without decompression)
• Interbody fusion surgery
• PLIF technique
• TLIF technique
• ALIF technique
• XLIF technique
• OLIF technique
• Lumbar decompression
• Lumbar microdiscectomy
• Minimally-invasive spinal surgery
• Spinal deformity surgery
• Spinal nerve root blocks for sciatica
• Spinal tumours
• Spinal trauma
• Trapped nerve treatments 
• Slipped disc treatments 
• Back surgery
• Vertebroplasty

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 Positions in public associations

• Lead, Spinal Sub-network Leeds, Yorkshire Regional Spinal Network Board (Present)

 Teaching posts

• Honorary senior lecturer, University of Leeds (Present)

 Education

• Registry of Specialist Register, Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery (2009)
• FRCS (Tr & Orth), Royal College of Surgeons of England (2007)
• MRCS, Royal College of Surgeons of England (2000)
• MA, Oxford University (1998)
• BM BCh, Oxford University (1997)
• BA (Hons) Oxford University (1994)

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 Publications and conferences

• Loughenbury, P., Tomlinson, J., Mann, C., Lamb, J., Dunsmuir, R., Millner, P., Rao, A., Khan, A. and Gummerson, N., 2016.
Is the thoracolumbar injury classification and severity score (TLICS) applicable to UK practice?.
The Spine Journal, 16(4), pp.S60-S61.
• Basheer, S., Loughenbury, P., Tomlinson, J., Dunsmuir, R., Gummerson, N., Khan, A., Rao, A. and Millner, P., 2016.
Sacropelvic fixation using S2 alar-iliac (S2AI) screws—analysis of clinical and radiological outcomes with minimum 1-year follow-up.
The Spine Journal, 16(4), p.S82.
• Loughenbury, P., Gentles, S., Murphy, E., Tomlinson, J., Dunsmuir, R., Gummerson, N., Rao, A., Rowbotham, E., Millner, P. and Khan, A., 2016.
Estimated X-ray exposure and additional cancer risk during surgical treatment of scoliosis in the growing spine.
The Spine Journal, 16(4), p.S54.
• Rudol, G. and Gummerson, N.W., 2014. (ii)
Thoracolumbar spinal fractures: review of anatomy, biomechanics, classification and treatment. Orthopaedics and Trauma, 28(2), pp.70-78.
• Wade, R., Yang, H., McKenna, C., Faria, R., Gummerson, N. and Woolacott, N., 2013.
A systematic review of the clinical effectiveness of EOS 2D/3D X-ray imaging system.
European Spine Journal, 22(2), pp.296-304.
• Gummerson, N., 2012.
Spine trauma.
Orthopaedics and Trauma, 26(4), p.295.
• McKenna, C., Wade, R., Faria, R., Yang, H., Stirk, L., Gummerson, N., Sculpher, M. and Woolacott, N., 2012. EOS 2D/3D
X-ray imaging system: a systematic review and economic evaluation.
• Gummerson, N.W. and Millner, P.A., 2011. (ii) Scoliosis in children and teenagers.
Orthopaedics and Trauma, 25(6), pp.403-412.
• Gummerson, N.W. and Millner, P.A., 2010.
Spinal fusion for scoliosis, clinical decision-making and choice of approach and devices.
Skeletal radiology,39(10), pp.939-942.
• Gummerson, N.W., Bishop, N.J., Cole, A.A.,
The Surgical Treatment Of Scoliosis In Type Iii And Iv
Osteogenisis Imperfecta: The Sheffield Experience.
Orthopaedic Proceedings Jul 2010, 92-B (SUPP III) 429;

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 Professional membership

• Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS)
• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)
• British Scoliosis Society (BSS) 
• North American Spine Society (NASS) 
• AO Spine (Europe)

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