Qualification: MBChB PhD FRCS (SN)

Mathew is a consultant neurosurgeon who sub specialises in complex spine neurosurgery. He qualified from University of Bristol and completed neurosurgical specialist training at the Walton Centre in Liverpool; then Kings College Hospital and St George’s hospital in south London.

He completed a PhD research doctorate in ‘Injury site monitoring in traumatic spinal cord injury’ under Professor Marios Papadopoulos at University of London in 2019. For part of his work he was awarded the European Association of Neurosurgeons research prize in 2017.   He has completed sub specialist fellowship training in paediatric and adult spinal deformity surgery at St George’s hospital, London, UK. Then an international fellowship in complex spine neurosurgery and then cranial neurovascular and neurooncology surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.