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Adrian Lower is a Consultant Gynaecologist with a special interest in Reproductive Medicine.

Mr Syed Aftab is a Consultant Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal London (Barts Health NHS Trust). He studied medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge University and Edinburgh University. He underwent higher surgical training in Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery on the London NE Thames rotation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.

He also gained a Master of Science at University College London in Trauma and Orthopaedics during his training. Syed completed advanced fellowships in Spinal Surgery at the Royal London Hospital. Furthermore, he continues to broaden his experience with visitations to international centres of excellence for spinal surgery (Antwerp Belgium, Bordeaux France, Neustadt Germany and Orlando USA).

Syed has been pioneering the iMAS technique in the UK, using micro access techniques developed by Dr Robert Masson at Neurospine Institute, Orlando, USA (a Federally accredited Centre of Excellence).

Syed believes that the best outcomes for patients can only be achieved when decisions are carefully considered and works within the framework of a multidisciplinary team. He is the Clinical Effectiveness Lead for Orthopaedics at the Royal London and is actively involved in teaching other doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

Syed is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He both teaches and organises the spinal teaching programme for postgraduates studying trauma and orthopaedics.

He has published widely in a number of peer-reviewed medical journals and is actively involved in research into spinal surgery. Syed has presented at national and international conferences.

Dr. Boruta was born and raised on the shore of Lake Michigan.

He graduated magna cum laude with both his B.S. in Biology and his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan.

As a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the combined Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital Residency Program he was elected Administrative Chief Resident. Following completion of fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he was a faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

In 2008, he returned to Massachusetts General Hospital and is currently Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

His primary clinical and research focus involves development and utilization of minimally invasive surgical techniques in the diagnosis and management of gynecologic cancers.

Mr Malik is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, London with more than 20 years’ experience. He is recognised as a leader in complex spine surgery with specific expertise in minimally invasive, endoscopic, keyhole surgery. He has pioneered several endoscopic spinal procedures, is one of few surgical references for the United Kingdom and has established King’s College Hospital as a training centre for endoscopic spinal surgery, training junior doctors in these procedures.

He completed advanced neurosurgical training at The Royal Hallamshire Hospital and the University Hospital, Coventry & Warwickshire between 2001 - 2006. Following this he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (SN) and then enhanced his experience by completing fellowships in complex spine and epilepsy surgery from University Hospital Coventry and King’s College Hospital.

His area of expertise includes the assessment and treatment (both surgical and non-surgical) of all spinal conditions including degenerative, traumatic and malignant spinal surgery. Mr Malik is an expert in the use of minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of neck pain, back pain, arm pain and sciatica.

He is a well-established epilepsy surgeon partaking in the UK Lead Vagal Nerve Stimulator (VNS) Programme. He is part of the International Faculty for Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Society for all aspects of spine surgery. He is a member of the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (ISMISS), British Association of Spine Surgery (BASS), European Spine Society and North American Spine Society (NASS).

Mr Malik has published several peer review papers, abstracts and book chapters and regularly lectures and teaches in workshops for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Endoscopic Spine Surgery.

Mr Bell specialises in Complex Spinal Surgery. He studied at Merchant Taylor’s School in Liverpool before moving to the University of Edinburgh Medical School where he graduated in 1996. He completed his basic surgical training in Edinburgh before moving to London to complete his higher surgical training in Neurosurgery and Complex Spine surgery.

He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2000 and obtained his Fellowship in Neurosurgery in 2007. He is a member of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS) where he sits on the executive board as well as the North American Spine Society (NASS). He is the National Lead Elect for the British Spine Registry with responsibility for quality assurance and outcome assessment in spinal surgery. Mr Bell also has national responsibility for the administration of the British Spine Registry. He is the clinical co-lead of South East London and Kent Spinal Network and has been instrumental in the organisation of regional spinal services.

At King’s College Hospital he is a key part of the Supra-Regional Complex Spine Team. His specialisms include degenerative spinal disease, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS), disc replacement surgery, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty, back pain, spinal tumours, metastatic spinal cord compression and spinal fractures.

He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as back pain, spinal tumours, myelopathy, neck pain and the ageing spine.

Mr Christopher Anderson is a consultant urological surgeon with a specialist interest in renal and prostate cancer. He is the Clinical Lead of the Robotic Surgery Unit and the Lead Cancer Clinician at St George's Hospital, London.

Mr Anderson was one of the pioneers of Robotic Surgery in the UK and holds membership at the British Association for Urological Surgeons. He completed his undergraduate work at Stellenbosch and his postgraduate training in Cape Town, South Africa, before taking up a substantive consultant post at St George’s Healthcare, London, in 1999. He undertook fellowships to Cleveland, the University of Miami and Detroit in the United States before travelling to the University of Leipzig in Germany where he learned laparoscopic radical prostatectomy due to the increasing popularity of minimally invasive surgical approaches to prostate cancer in recent years.

Mr Anderson was one of the first to adopt laparoscopic techniques in urology surgery in the UK. In 2004 he introduced laparoscopic renal cryotherapy, also the first operation of its kind in the UK. He continued to develop this technique and has the largest series with long term follow-up in the country.

He was an integral member of the team that pioneered robotic surgery in the UK, introducing the robotic surgery programme to St George’s Healthcare in July 2008, and has successfully developed the service as lead robotic surgeon.

His particular clinical interests include robotic prostatectomy, robotic partial nephrectomy, robotic pyeloplasty and laparoscopic nephrectomy. Mr Anderson is available for private consultations at The Princess Grace Hospital, London.