Mr Syed Aftab is a Consultant Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal London, Barts Health NHS Trust. His special interests are in minimally invasive surgery, disc pathology, spinal trauma, spinal deformity, spinal infections, spinal tumours, back pain, leg pain, neck pain and arm pain. He is an expert in Intervertebral Micro Access Surgery (iMAS), minimally invasive spinal instrumentation, complex spine trauma management (including polytrauma), and degenerative spine disorders.

Having completed pre-clinical medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge University in 2002, Mr Aftab went on to Edinburgh University for clinical medicine, obtaining Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) in 2005. He then underwent higher surgical training in Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery on the prestigious London NE Thames rotation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He also gained a Master of Science from University College London in Trauma and Orthopaedics during his training. He completed his advanced fellowship in Spinal Surgery at the Royal London Hospital. To this day, he continues to expand his experience with visitations to global centres of excellence for spinal surgery in Europe and the United States.

Mr Syed is an active researcher in spinal surgery and has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed medical journals. He has presented at many reputed national and international conferences in the areas of minimal access spinal surgery, back pain, degenerative spine disorders and minimal access spinal trauma surgery. He is a member of the British Medical Association, British Orthopaedic Association, British Association of Spinal Surgeons and North American Spine Society. As the Clinical Effectiveness Lead for Orthopaedics at the Royal London, he is actively involved in teaching other health professionals. He organizes the ‘Spine Term’ for the Royal London Hospital and Sir Percival Pott Orthopaedic Rotations.