Mr Syed Aftab is a Consultant Orthopaedic & Spinal Surgeon at Cromwell Hospital, London. He specialises in spinal injuries and has been treating adult and paediatric patients since 2006. He is also the Clinical Lead for Spinal Surgery at Barts Health NHS Trust, based at the Royal London Hospital.
Dr Aftab studied medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge University and Edinburgh University. He underwent higher surgical training in Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery on the London NE Thames rotation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.
Mr Aftab has been pioneering the iMAS technique in the UK, using micro access techniques developed by Dr Robert Masson at Neurospine Institute, Orlando, USA (a Federally accredited Centre of Excellence). He is the first surgeon in the UK to perform robotic-assisted spinal surgery. He has been developing this area and is currently already on the second-generation robot. His NHS practice is the first in the UK to offer robotic surgery routinely.
Clinical Interests
Spine surgery, spinal cord injury, intervertebral disk degeneration, neuro-oncology, adult spinal deformity, paediatric deformity, spinal trauma, spinal tumour surgery, back pain, sciatica.
