Journey, photos & awards — design options.

My medical degree was awarded by MGM Medical College, Indore — formerly Kind Edward Medical School, founded in 1878 and among the earliest medical schools in Asia.

My surgical career began with the All Wales Core Surgical Training programme under the Wales Deanery. Early rotations in plastic surgery and accident & emergency built the variation and tissue-handling skills that later became the foundation of my orthopaedic work.

Across six years of higher specialist training I was able to manage the full breadth of joint conditions. My basic spinal training was undertaken at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. I was awarded CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) by the Royal College of Surgeons, and have presented and published nationally and internationally.

I was awarded a Master's degree following two further years of focused training in the management of trauma patients.

My higher spinal training concluded at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry — one of the UK's foremost orthopaedic centres. It gave me the chance to explore the full breadth of spine-related conditions and to manage them safely, in the best interest of the patient.

During my Oswestry years I was drawn to the principles of endoscopic, minimally invasive spinal surgery. I travelled to Germany to train under Prof. Rutten at St. Anna Hospital, where I saw first-hand the breadth of procedures the keyhole approach makes possible — with minimal trauma to the patient.

I joined the Walton Centre and have since developed its endoscopic spinal service. More recently I have expanded into robotic spinal surgery, extending the precision of minimally invasive work.

I have long believed in minimally invasive surgery and its true benefits for patients. Building a new endoscopic service through the COVID years was challenging, but with the support of the Walton Centre Charity we created something I'm proud of.