4.30pm – 6pm BST, 19 September 2024 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Room: Hall 11a
Specialist Society
Acute Spinal Conditions
Chair: Ed Bayley
Agenda:
16:30 - 17:00 Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression Saajid Kaleel
17:00 - 17:30 The Infected Spine Lennel Lutchman
17:30 - 18:00 Spinal Examination for the FRCS (TR&ORTH) Girish Swamy, Saajid Kaleel, Ed Bayley
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Ipswich Hospital Spinal Unit & Nuffield Health Hospital, Ipswich
Consultant Spine Surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich University hospital NHS trust
BSS Education Lead and Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Sheffield
Consultant Spinal Surgeon with interest in paediatric deformity at Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery. Clinical educator and supervisor to medical students. Current BSS education rep and member of the Spinal TIG committee. Previously a consultant at Sheffield Children's Hospital for four years where he was a pastoral tutor to medical students and Spinal Governance Lead.
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Ipswich Hospital Spinal Unit & Nuffield Health Hospital, Ipswich
Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Ipswich Hospital Spinal Unit and at Nuffield Health Hospital in Ipswich with special interests in anterior lumbar spinal surgery, minimally invasive spinal surgery. Faculty on British neurosurgical training programme and East of England Orthopaedic Training programme.Consultant Spine Surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich University hospital NHS trust
Lennel qualified in medicine in 1994 from the University of the West Indies in his home country of Trinidad. He came to the UK for postgraduate training in orthopaedics in 1996 and was a BST and HST in the East of England. He did his spinal training in Ipswich, Norwich, and Brisbane.
Lennel was awarded the Walter Mercer gold medal for the FRCS in Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2004 and has been a consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon at Norwich since 2006. He joined the board of examiners for the FRCS (Tr and Orth) in 2019 and became Education Lead for the British Association of Spinal Surgeons in 2022.