MBBS, MRCS, FRCS(SN), DNB
Specialty
Orthopaedic Surgery / Neurosurgery
Sub-specialty
Spinal Surgery
Special clinical interests
Degenerative, trauma, tumour & deformity spinal surgery, neck & back pain
Research interests
Degenerative cervical disc disease, fusion verses arthroplasty and neural tissue regeneration
Current NHS and/or university posts
Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust
Year of first medical qualification
1992
Current memberships of professional, national and regional bodies
Joint Section on Spine - AANS / CNS
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Society of British Neurological Surgeons
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
AOSpine International
Medical Protection Society
GMC Specialist Register
Professional Profile
Mr Chopra is a Spinal Consultant who is working between Llandough Hospital and University Hospital of Wales. His initial post-graduate education was undertaken at Bombay, India followed by training on the North Thames neurosurgical rotation in London. The last two years of training were spent learning about complex spinal surgery with an accredited fellowship staged between Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. This provided a unique opportunity into the understanding of spinal pathology from both an orthopaedic and neurosurgical perspective: helping treat complications like skeletal instability, CSF leak, recurrent discs and arachnoiditis.
Mr Chopra is well versed with spinal procedures ranging from decompressive foraminotomies to complex instrumentation and fixation and has had targeted training in operative microscopic techniques and their use in complementary skull base procedures and intricate spinal dissection.
Mr Chopra has a specific interest in cervical and lumbar fusions, artificial cervical discs, degenerative spinal disease, canal stenosis, spinal trauma, spinal tumours - intradural and extradural, syringomyelia and Chiari malformation. His research interest includes degenerative cervical disc disease: fusion verses arthroplasty and neural tissue regeneration. He also has an interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has been a faculty on FRCS Spinal revision course and AO instructor’s course.
Personal profile
I enjoy sport of all types, especially cricket and Formula 1 racing and I am an amateur rally driver. I have travelled extensively and enjoy meeting people from different cultures. I speak several languages (hindi, urdu, punjabi, marathi) and find this helpful in my work and socially.