Mr Colin Nnadi, Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Mr Colin Nnadi
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Mr Colin Nnadi MBBS FRCSI FRCS(Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Mr Colin Nnadi
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon MBBS FRCSI FRCS(Orth)
Areas of expertise
- Back pain
- Medico-legal work
- Scoliosis
- General spinal disorders
- Degenerative spinal conditions
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About Mr Colin Nnadi
GMC number: 4744416
Year qualified: 1989
Place of primary qualification: Lagos
Mr Colin Nnadi is a Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon and the Lead Clinician of the Spine Unit at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS foundation Trust. He sees all spinal conditions in adults and children in addition to his specialist interest in spinal deformities in children including scoliosis. He was the Chief Investigator for the UK multicentre MAGEC rods trial in Early Onset Scoliosis and UK Chief Investigator for the pan-European K-Spine study on Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
Mr Nnadi graduated from the College of Medicine in Lagos and then trained in Orthopaedic Surgery on the Wessex rotation UK. He was awarded the FRCS (Orth) in 2006. He undertook spine fellowship training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London and the Norfolk & Norwich University Teaching Hospital. He was locum Consultant Spine Surgeon at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham before taking up his present post in Oxford.
Mr Nnadi is convenor of the internationally-renowned Oxford Early Onset Scoliosis meetings. He was an educational supervisor to the foundation and core trainees for the Oxford deanery. He has been on international educational spine faculties. He is on the editorial board of the European Spine Journal. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of the Spine Deformity Journal. He is a reviewer for the European Spine Journal (ESJ), Bone, and Joint Journal (BJJ) and The Spine Journal (TSJ). He has also been an Expert Medical Technology Adviser to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and expert reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
He is chair of the Growing Spine Committee of the Scoliosis Research Society and a member of Education Council.
Mr Nnadi has recently led a working party on behalf of BASS developing National Guidelines on management of thromboembolism in spinal surgery. He was appointed to the NICE VTE Guidelines Consultation Committee in February 2016.
Areas of expertise
- Adult spinal deformity
- Back pain
- Complex revision spinal surgery
- Degenerative disc disease
- Degenerative spinal conditions
- Discectomy
- General spinal disorders
- Laminectomy
- Lumbar back surgery
- Medico-legal work
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Paediatric general spinal disorders
- Paediatric spinal deformity
- Scoliosis
- Scoliosis surgery
- Spinal decompression
- Spinal deformity correction
- Spinal infections
- Spinal trauma
- Spine fracture surgery
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