Mr Jaykar R Panchmatia

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

Consultant Spine Surgeon

Mr Panchmatia is able to offer prompt appointments and reports.

Mr Panchmatia is a highly motivated and organised consultant orthopaedic spine surgeon at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Trust. His private practice is located at the Princess Grace Hospital and the BMI Hendon Hospital. Mr Panchmatia is the trauma and orthopaedic surgery clinical governance lead at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, where he also established the combined pain management - spine surgery clinic.

Academic record

Mr Panchmatia's strong academic record includes: Harvard University, USA (Fulbright Scholar); Yale University, USA; Cambridge University, UK; Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, USA. He has been awarded the Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) Civil Expert Witness Certificate

Training (UK & USA)

Mr Panchmatia completed his Spine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA. Mr. Panchmatia has trained at level 1 UK trauma centres (St. Mary’s Hospital; Kings College Hospital) as an orthopaedic surgeon and neurosurgeon and a UK orthopaedic centre of excellence (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital).

Written and oral presentations and publications

Mr Panchmatia has greater than seventy academic publications and presentations. He has published in journals including the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Journal of Trauma, Neurosurgical Focus, and the Spine Journal. His international publications include articles on whiplash and hypermobility. He recently published a book: Navigation and robotics in spine surgery, Thieme Medical Publishers, New York.

Mr Panchmatia is experienced in writing articles for, and delivering oral presentations to, large audiences, including the British Association of Spine Surgeons and North American Spine Society.

Locations

Mr Panchmatia is available to see clients across the country including, in London and the South East, Central London, Greater London, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes and Slough. Other locations across the country, as well as home and prison visits, are available upon request.

Conditions seen

Mr Panchmatia accepts personal injury cases; clinical negligence cases; and cases relating to work related injuries and diseases, industrial injuries, and sports injuries. His spinal medico-legal interests include:

• • cauda equina syndrome
• • whiplash
• • back pain
• • neck pain
• • soft tissue spine injuries
• • spinal trauma
• • spine fractures
• • orthopaedic conditions accompanying diseases of the spine
• • disc disease inc. disc prolapse/disc protrusion/bulging disc
• • stiff back
• • stiff neck
• • arm pain originating in the spine
• • leg pain originating in the spine
• • shoulder pain associated with spine issues
• • sciatica
• • numbness in the arms and legs
• • paraesthesia in the arms and legs
• • low back pain
• • pins and needles in the arms and legs
• • thoracic pain
• • cervical pain
• • thoracolumbar pain
• • lumbar pain
• • osteoporotic spine fractures
• • neurological spinal injuries
• • spinal cord injuries
• • paralysis
• • spinal stenosis
• • degenerative spinal conditions
• • spinal conditions associated with hypermobility
• • spinal conditions associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
• • myelopathy
• • spondylolisthesis
• • spinal tumours
• • spinal deformities
• • failed back surgery syndrome
• • spinal infections
• • coccyx pain and fractures

Prizes and Awards:

• British Association of Spine Surgeons and British Scoliosis Society Presidents’ Fellow
• British Orthopaedic Association Zimmer Passage to India Fellowship
• Cambridge University's Oon Khye Beng Ch'hia Tsio studentship
• Fulbright Scholarship
• Royal College of Surgeons of England's BMI healthcare prize
• Sir Robert Jones Gold Medal and British Orthopaedic Association prize

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).