Mr Khalid Salem Saqer

Mr Salem is a fellowship trained spine surgeon. The scope of his practice covers various aspects of adult spinal degenerative conditions, adult spinal deformity, spinal tumours and spinal trauma management.After completing the trauma surgical rotation in the East Midlands (Derby and Nottingham), Mr Salem dedicated two years towards completing a Doctorate in Medicine (DM) from Nottingham university as a full time researcher. Over the six years to follow, he successfully completed his higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery from the prestigious East Midlands (North) rotation, awarded the intercollegiate fellowship in the speciality (FRCS (T&O)) in 2011 and admitted to the specialist register for trauma and orthopaedics in 2013. Mr Salem’s sub-specialist training was completed over two years two of the internationally leading centres in the field of complex spinal surgery. The first was done in the centre for spinal studies and surgery in Nottingham while the second was The Combined Adult Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Spine fellowship as an AOspine North American fellow in the Vancouver Spine surgery Institute and the University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada.Mr Salem has authored several academic articles and spine surgery book chapters and has been invited on numerous occasions as a speaker in national and international meetings. He remains committed to evidence based spinal care and is actively involved in a number of research projects at any given time.

My Practice covers the whole spectrum of adult spinal pathology. I have advanced training and experience in the management of degenerative spinal pathology with minimally invasive surgery and the treatment of adult spinal deformity. My NHS practice also covers Spinal oncology (tumours) and trauma.