Curriculum Vitae (2014)
Mr. Jonathan Spilsbury,
MBBS (Middlesex Hospital London) 1987,
FRCS (Eng.) 1991,
FRCS (Orth.) 1996
Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon,
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital &
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Honorary contracts at:
The Cromwell Hospital London
Priory Hospital Birmingham
Golden Jubilee Hospital Glasgow
Medico-legal Experience
Orthopaedic/ trauma reporting since 1992, specialist spinal reporting since 1996, Spinal
Negligence reporting since 2000
Patients seen in Birmingham, Manchester and London
As an Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in
Birmingham, I work as a member of a team of eight spinal surgeons. Between us,
we cover all aspects of spinal pathology.
In my practice, I run an adult low back pain clinic once per week, treating both
low back pain and sciatica. In this clinic, I also see patients with adult
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degenerative scoliosis.
In my paediatric clinic, I see patients with spinal deformity, and run a weekly
spinal deformity clinic with two colleagues. My Paediatric spinal surgery is spread
over two sites, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and The Royal Orthopaedic
Hospital.
My operating experience includes two whole days of operating per week. This is
roughly split into 70% spinal deformity- mainly paediatric and 30% adult
degenerative cases. On top of this, I have an on-call commitment, providing oncall advice and emergency surgery for all aspects of spinal pathology except for
intra-dural pathology.
I attend weekly interdisciplinary meetings to discuss on-call referrals, elective
surgery performed by all my colleagues, as well as interesting non-operative cases.
I run a weekly teaching programme for teaching spinal pathology to registrars and
SHOs in the hospital, as well as teaching sessions for medical students and the
East Midlands Orthopaedic Training Programme.
I attend the British Scoliosis Society meetings regularly, as well as alternate
Scoliosis Research Society meetings and consecutive Britspine meetings. I have
recently been an adviser to NICE.
Low back pain work includes decompression, fusion surgery, occasional disc
replacements (where indicated) as well as supervising (and occasionally
performing) an injection list and multi-disciplinary team meetings with the pain
team.
I have no experience in laser surgery, percutaneous nuclear replacements or
cervical disc replacement surgery.
In spinal deformity, I treat all ages of spinal deformity.
I have extensive
experience with VEPTR, growing rod systems, vertebrectomies, osteotomies, as
well as anterior thoracic and anterior lumbar surgery in both spinal deformity
surgery and adult degenerative surgery. I regularly treat spinal metastasis
surgically, but do not treat primary bone tumours alone.
I have an interest in coccydynia, which I believe is a maligned condition in the
UK.
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House Surgeon
House Surgeon
House Physician
Anatomy Prosector
Senior House Officer
Surgery
Senior House Officer
Career Registrar
Orthopaedics, University College Hospital, London.
General Surgery, The Middlesex Hospital, London.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London.
Orthopaedics & A&E General, Vascular, Paediatric
and Urology Luton & Dunstable Hospital
Plastic& Reconstructive Surgery Mount Vernon Hospital
Orthopaedics And Trauma
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital/Basildon/
Oldchurch
Senior Registrar
Orthopaedics And Trauma
South Wales Training Programme (Cardiff, Swansea
and Newport)
Spinal Fellowship
Cardiff Royal Infirmary &
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham.
British Scoliosis Society European Fellow1998
Consultant
Spinal Surgeon at Hope Hospital
Manchester and Manchester
Children’s Hospital 1998-2002
GMC Registration
Defence Organisation
Full. 3201653
Medical Defence Union.
Papers Published
“The Graf Ligament Stabilisation System: early results in 50 patients.”
Grevitt M P. Gardner A D. Spilsbury J. Baskerville R. Pursell L . Hassaan A. Mulholland R .
European Spine Journal. 4(3): 169-75; discussion 135, 1995.
Also presented by me at the BOA April 1994. JBJS Vol 76B 1994 Supp 2 p135
“Surgical Reconstruction Of Complex Four Part Proximal Humeral Fractures.”
Presented at British Trauma Society. Oxford October 1993. BOA April 1994
JBJS Vol 76 B 1994 Supp 3 p148
“Internal Fixation Of Four Part Proximal Humeral Fractures” J Spilsbury. H Resch. JIL
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Bayley. Injury 25 1994 S-B 21.
“Axillary And Suprascapular Nerve Injuries; Long Term Results Of Exploration And
Grafting.”
J Spilsbury. R Birch. Presented at BOA September 1995.
“Treatment Of Periprosthetic Fractures Of The Distal Femur Following Total Knee
Arthroplasty With The Customised Endolink Prosthesis.”
Poster BOA September 1997. P Ziprin. J Spilsbury. M V S Maheson.
“Vertebral Osteomyelitis As A Result Of A Caudal Epidural - Two Case Reports”
M Belthor. S Acharia. J Spilsbury. A Stirling. (June 1998)
“The Use Of The Moss Cage To Treat The Combination Of Vertebral Osteomyelitis Plus
Spinal Cord Compression”
J Spilsbury. A Stirling. Moss Users Group, Stanmore (July 1998)
“The Spinal Manifestations of the Smith - Magenis Syndrome.”
J Spilsbury. S Acharia. M Holt. S Upadhyay. Presented at the B.S.S. 1998.
“European Travelling Fellowship 1998.”
J Spilsbury. Presented at the B.S.S. March 1998.
“Risk Factors For The Evolution Of Adult Degenerative Scoliosis.”
V A Lykomitros. G Sapkas. K Zachariou D. Korres. J Spilsbury . T Pantazopoulos.
Presented at the B.S.S. March 1998.
“Transpedicular Fixation (Mini- Olerud Fixator) In The Treatment Of Various Spinal
Disorders In Children.”
S Acharya . J Spilsbury . D S Marks . .A J Stirling . A G Thompson.
Presented at the B.S.S. March 1998.
“Analysis Of Primary And Secondary Curves In Scoliosis Following Anterior
Instrumentation.”
S Acharya . J Spilsbury . S Kohli . D S Marks . A G Thompson . P Pynsent .
Presented at the B.S.S. March 1998.
“The Treatment of Unstable Pathological Fractures of the Lumbosacral Junction by a
modified Galveston Technique.”
A Magee. E Bache . J Spilsbury . D S Marks . A Thompson. Poster Britspine 1999.
“The Moss Cage in the Treatment of Vertebral Osteomyelitis.”
J Spilsbury . D S Marks . A Thompson . A Stirling.
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Recent Presentations & Publications
“The Treatment of Unstable Pathological Fractures of the Lumbosacral Junction by a
modified Galveston Technique” Poster Britspine 1999. European Spine Journal Sept 2000
“Current Treatment of Spinal Tumours” British Spinal Study Group Jan 2001
“The Treatment of Thoracolumbar Fractures with Decompression, and Stabilisation with
the Moss Cage and Kaneda device.” Presented at the B.S.S March 2001.
“The Significance of Canal size in Cauda Equina Syndrome” British Spinal Study Group Jan
2002
“Treatment of Unusual Scoliosis in Juvenile patients using the Isola Growing Rod System”
Britspine 2002.
“Orthopaedic Manifestations of Smith-Magenis Syndrome” Journal of Paediatric
Orthopaedics, Jan 2003 K Mohanty, J SpilsburySageAccts MR JONATHAN SPILSBURY
FRCS FRCS (ORTH) 2012-09-27 14-44-35.001
“Somatosensory evoked potential spinal cord monitoring in anterior deformity surgery – is
it useful?” L Breakwell, M Revell, D Marks, G Rao, J Spilsbury, A Thompson.
“Role of depression, pain and somatisation on disability: A comparison of low back verses
medicolegal back pain”
H Dashti, H Norris, J Spilsbury, E Ross Britspine 2004 poster
“Incidence of vertebral metastases from a Second Primary Tumour” M Grainger, A Stirling,
D Marks, A Jackowski, J Spilsbury, Britspine 2004
“Audit of Oswestry Disability Index Scoring”
A Mehera, D Baker, P Pynsant, J Spilsbury
“Remote Cervical Spinal Cord Infarction Following Scoliosis Surgery”
J Paniker, S Khan, A Khan, D Marks, J Spilsbury, A Thompson
“Scoliosis Surgery in the Cavopulmonary Shunt or Fontan Patient- The Birmingham
Experience”
A Gardner, J Spilsbury, D Marks, A Thompson, A Tatnam
Recent Presentations
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“ The Growing Spine” presented at 1ST Egyptian Deformity Meeting March 2005
member of Faculty
“How to Avoid Negligence In Spinal Surgery” –London 2006
“Unusual Complications in Deformity Surgery”- Monaco 2007
“The Treatment of Scoliosis in Arthrogryposis”- 1st International Arthrogryposis meeting
Sept 2007 Birmingham
“Preoperative Assessment in Paediatric Spinal Deformity Patients”- National Association of
Preoperative Assessment Nurses November 2007
“The Treatment of Thoracolumbar Kyphosis in Muccopolysacharidosis ‘ April 2009
“The Influence of Cobb angle and ISIS2 Surface Topography Volumetric Asymmetry on
SRS-22 outcome scores in Scoliosis” BSS Manchester 2010
“A Comparison of 1S1S2 lateral asymmetry and Radiographic Cobb angle measurement”
A K Kotecha, F Berryman, D Baker, P Pynsent, A Gardner, D Marks, J Spilsbury
BSS Manchester 2010
“Analysis of the Scoliosis Research Society-22 Questionaire Scores: Is there a Difference
Between a Child and a Parent and does Consultant Review Change That?”
P Brewer, F Berryman D Baker, P Pynsent, A Gardner, J Spilsbury, D Marks, A Thompson.
Britspine Newcastle May 2012
“ The Efficacy of Halo- Femoral Traction in Severe Rigid Scoliosis”
S Grannum, A Gardner, J Spilsbury, D Marks
Britspine Newcastle May 2012
BOOKS
“Treatment of Spinal Metastasis”-Spilsbury & Galasko- chapter in Bone Metastasis Ed D
Poitout Springer-Verlag 2002
Scholarship (European Spinal Deformity Society)
Jan/Feb 1998, I was selected to represent the British Scoliosis Society as a European Spinal
Deformity Society Travelling Fellow. In 4 weeks I visited 9 centres in 5 countries, specifically
presenting my Smith-Magenis work and discussing autologous blood transfusion protocols amongst
other issues.
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PLACES VISITED: France, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, & Italy
Courses and Conferences Attended
Britspine Warwick 2014
Scoliosis Research Society Lyons 2013
Britspine 2012 Newcastle
Scoliosis Research Society Japan October 2010
Britspine Liverpool April 2010
Visit to Dr Lenke June 2009 St Louis
Advanced Deformity Meeting Istanbul May 2009 Presenter
3rd VEPTA Users Group April 2009 Zurich Presenter
Egyptian Orthopaedic Conference 0ct 2007 Cairo Faculty
Britspine Belfast May 2008
1ST International Arthrogryposis Symposium Faculty
3rd International Deformity Meeting Egypt 2007 Faculty
Scoliosis Research Society Edinburgh 2007
Complications in Spinal Deformity 2007 Monaco Co-host
Scoliosis Research Society Monterey 2006
Britspine Cardiff May 2006
Anterior Scoliosis Meeting Nov 2005 Birmingham- Co-host
Scoliosis Research Society Miami Oct 2005
British Orthopaedic Association 2005
Muscular Dystrophy Workshop- Management of Scoliosis Jan 2005
1st International Egyptian Spinal Meeting 2004 Faculty
Britspine April 2004-Nottingham Scoliosis Research Society Canada Sept 2003
British Orthopaedic Association 2002 Britspine 2002-Birmingham
British Spinal Study Group (Jan 2001) & (Jan 2002) presenter
British Isola Users Group (Nov2000) presenter, 2002
Scoliosis Research Society Cairns (Sept 2000)
India Spine CME Madras (Sept 2000) head of faculty
British Scoliosis Society Jersey (May 2000)
British Spinal Study Group (Jan 2000)
Eurospine Munich (Sept 1999)
Britspine 1999 Manchester (March 1999)
6th Isola course Stockholm
Scoliosis Research Society New York (Sept 1998) British Scoliosis Society Exeter
Paediatric Isola Amsterdam (March 1998)
Nottingham Advanced Spinal (Sept 1997)
Bristol FRCS Ortho (1996)
Leicester Basic Science Course (October 1996)
Moss Miami Spinal Stuttgart
British Orthopaedic Association (Aberdeen)
Nottingham Spine (June 1995)
International Intradiscal Therapy Society (Aberdeen -May 1994)
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Royal College of Surgeons Advanced Anatomy Course (Upper Limb)’94faculty
British Orthopaedic Association (London - April 1994) presenter
British Trauma Society (Oxford - October 1993) presenter
Association of Continental Surgeons summer 1993 Faculty
Royal College of Surgeons Advanced Anatomy Course (Upper Limb)’93Faculty
British Orthopaedic Association (London - 1992)
AO Nailing Course (London - November 1992)
AO Basic Fracture Fixation Course (Nottingham - September 1992)
Whipps Cross Hospital Fellowship Course - May/June 1991
Northwick Park Microanastomosis Course - November 1991
Research Interests:
Spinal Deformity,
Spinal Trauma & Multiple Trauma
Societies
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, The British Medical Association, & The
Sedden Society (Stanmore).
Founder Member of W.I.S.H,
British Scoliosis Society & past adviser to the Smith-Magenis Support Group
Terms and Conditions for Medico-legal Reporting;
Spinal Specialist reports 90% + General Orthopaedic/Trauma reports 10%
10% Paediatric
Case mix:
60% claimant
20% joint
20% defendant
Waiting time 6/8 weeks -earlier by arrangement in Birmingham, and Manchester
Home visits by special arrangement/fee only when client disabled
30% non-attendance fee unless prior agreement.
Reports usually available within 3-4/52 of consultation, if all notes available
VAT charged from 1st May 2007.
Agency terms by prior agreement
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Spinal Negligence Reporting
- since 2000
- approx 15 cases per year, cauda equina, missed infection, paralysis, both for
claimant and NHS Litigation Authority
Contacts:
Postal Address
P.O. Box 4157, STOURBRIDGE, DY7 5WZ
Tel / Fax: 01384-221169
Email: jbsmedical@blueyonder.co.uk
Secretaries:
Monday & Friday
Tuesday & Thursday
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Jennifer Holmes
Debbie Leigh