Mr Jaykar R Panchmatia

• Consultant Spine Surgeon, The Princess Grace Hospital (Central London).
• Consultant Spine Surgeon, The BMI Hendon Hospital (North London).
• Consultant Spine Surgeon, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust.

Locations: 

• Nationwide clinics including: London; Essex; Luton; Milton Keynes; Slough and Uxbridge; Birmingham; Cambridge; Leicester; Northampton; Peterborough; Leeds; Manchester; Southampton; Bristol.
• International clinics.
• Home and prison visits.

Qualifications: Medicine at Cambridge University (BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) including attachment at Yale University, USA). Masters in Public Health at Harvard University, USA (Fulbright Scholar). USMLE. FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedic).

Awards:

• Best Spinal Surgery Expert Witness 2024.
• British Association of Spine Surgeons and British Scoliosis Society Presidents’ Fellow.
• British Orthopaedic Association prize and Sir Robert Jones Gold Medal.
• British Orthopaedic Association Zimmer Passage to India Fellowship.
• Cambridge University's Oon Khye Beng Ch'hia Tsio studentship.
• Fulbright Scholarship (at Harvard University).
• Royal College of Surgeons of England's BMI healthcare prize.

Mr Jaykar R Panchmatia
MA(Camb) MPH(Harv) MBBChir(Camb) USMLE FRCS(Tr&Orth)

Consultant Spine Surgeon

Mr Panchmatia is a highly motivated and dedicated Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, London. He trained at Level 1 UK trauma centres as an orthopaedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon. Mr Panchmatia completed his fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA. He has degrees from Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and Cambridge University. He has 70+ academic publications and presentations, and has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Clinical Experience

In 2015, Mr Panchmatia was appointed as Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, London (GSTT) specialising in spinal surgery. He is the Clinical Governance Lead for trauma and orthopaedic surgery at GSTT. Mr Panchmatia treats elective and acute spinal conditions, offering both non-surgical and surgical treatments.

Medico Legal Practice

Mr Panchmatia is an established expert witness and has a mature medico-legal practice. His medico legal practice spans all spinal conditions. He is a specialist in serious/ complex high value injuries. Mr Panchmatia has undergone his expert witness training (Bond Solon). He is registered with APIL, AvMA, National Crime Agency (NCA) and the UK Register of Expert Witnesses. Mr Panchmatia was awarded Best Spinal Surgery Expert Witness 2024.

Mr Panchmatia welcomes personal injury and clinical negligence claims, for claimant, defendant and joint cases. Mr Panchmatia welcomes both civil and criminal instructions. He offers nationwide clinics, and home and prison visits.

Written and oral presentations and publications

Mr Panchmatia has over 70 academic presentations and publications. These include articles in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Journal of Trauma, Neurosurgical Focus, and the Spine Journal. Topics covered include conditions that affect the cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, and sacrum. Mr Panchmatia has published with acclaimed Harvard University author and Surgeon, Professor Atul Gawande. Mr Panchmatia has published a book: Navigation and Robotics in Spine Surgery with Thieme Medical Publishers, New York.

Conditions seen

Mr Panchmatia has clinical expertise in all spinal conditions including:

• • Whiplash associated disorders including neck and arm pain
• • Cauda equina syndrome
• • Spinal trauma, including osteoporotic fractures
• • Spinal fractures
• • Spinal cord injury including paralysis
• • Failed back surgery
• • Foot drop
• • Neck and back pain
• • Spinal tumours (cancer)
• • Spinal infections
• • Work-related injuries and diseases
• • Industrial injuries and disability reports
• • Road traffic accidents e.g. motor vehicle collisions
• • Sports injuries
• • Soft tissue spinal injuries
• • Musculoskeletal spinal conditions
• • Orthopaedic spinal conditions
• • Degenerative conditions, including spinal stenosis
• • Spinal conditions associated with hypermobility
• • Lumbar and low back pain
• • Deformities, including spondylolisthesis
• • Disc disease including disc prolapse/protrusion/bulging
• • Chronic back pain
• • Leg pain and sciatica
• • Coccygeal pain (coccydynia)
• • Orthopaedic conditions accompanying diseases of the spine
• • Stiff back
• • Stiff neck
• • Arm pain
• • Shoulder pain
• • Numbness and paraesthesia
• • Pins and needles in the arms and legs
• • Thoracic pain
• • Cervical pain
• • Thoracolumbar pain
• • Neurological spinal injuries
• • Myelopathy
• • Emergency/acute medicine
• • Epidural
• • Radiculopathy
• • Spasticity
• • Spinal cord dysfunction

Memberships of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies:

• British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• British Scoliosis Society (BSS)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS)
• General Medical Council (GMC).