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Mr Matthew Mawdsley

Specialties

Orthopaedics

Sub-specialty

Spinal

Qualifications

GMC number: 6145464
Practicing since:

About

Mr Mawdsley is a fellowship-trained consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon whose specialist interest is in degenerative conditions affecting the adult spine from neck to coccyx. He has developed an extensive practice in spinal surgery including discectomy surgery, decompression surgery and fusion surgeries.

Mr Mawdsley attended the University of Manchester and completed his higher specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics locally in the Northern Deanery. He was awarded Surgical College Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedics FRCS in 2016 and admission to the General Medical Council Specialist Register and award of Completion of Specialist Training in 2017.

From 2017 to 2019, Mr Mawdsley completed two prestigious fellowships in complex spinal surgery, the National British Orthopaedic Association Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at Northumbria and the Advanced Spinal Fellow at Leeds General Infirmary. Mr Mawdsley has been a Consultant spinal surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since 2019.

Mr Mawdsley is actively involved in research and has publications in renowned journals and book chapters. He is heavily involved in medical education, teaching junior doctors and medical students as well as working as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Surgical Tutor. Mr Mawdsley is the lead editor in spine for the United Kingdom and Ireland in-training Examination, an integral part of training for orthopaedic trainee surgeons.

Specialist Interests

Back Pain
Degenerative disease of the spine
Coccyx pain and Coccydynia
Spondylosis
Leg pain / Sciatica
Disc prolapse / Slipped disc
Fractures
Vertebroplasty
Kyphoplasty
Deformity
Microdiscectomy
PLF; PLIF; TLIF; XLIF
Neck and arm pain
Brachialgia
Myelopathy
Spinal cord compression
Corpectomy
Foraminotomy

Research

Mawdsley MJ, Jalul M, Humphreys AR. Distal scaphoid fracture and scapholunate ligament injury in a child. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2013 Jun;38(5):574-5. doi: 10.1177/1753193413479722. Epub 2013 Feb 26. PMID: 23442340.

Bhangu A, Marriott P, Nepogodiev D, Kolias AG, Jamjoom A, Gardiner MD, McDermott FD, Skerritt C, Harries RL, Cornish J, Stimpson AL, Glasbey JC, Bosanquet DC, Chapman S, Shaikh S, Taylor G, Lee M, Wild J, Mawdsley M, Manning W, Jaunoo S, Adams HL, Blencowe NS, Smith JA, Burdett C, Gokani VJ, Stather PW, Haddow JB, Symons NR, Ventham N, Nicholson G. Surgical training and clinical trial involvement–the trainees’ view. BMJ. 2015 May 26;350:h2773. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2773. PMID: 26013244.

Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Network. The provision of total hip replacement for displaced intracapsular hip fractures. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2016 Feb;98(2):96-101. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2016.0051. Epub 2016 Jan 7. PMID: 26741658; PMCID: PMC5210489.

Mawdsley MJ, Baker PN, Desai A, Green RN, Jevons L. Regional uptake an variations in orthopaedic enhanced recovery pathways in knee and hip total arthroplasty. J Perioper Pract. 2016 May;26(5):118-22. doi: 10.1177/175045891602600505. PMID: 27400490.

International Surgical Outcomes Study group. Global patient outcomes after elective surgery: prospective cohort study in 27 low-, middle- and high-income countries. Br J Anaesth. 2016 Oct 31;117(5):601-609. doi: 10.1093/bja/aew316. Erratum in: Br J Anaesth. 2017 Sep 1;119(3):553. doi: 10.1093/bja/aew472. PMID: 27799174; PMCID: PMC5091334.

Kahan BC, Koulenti D, Arvaniti K, Beavis V, Campbell D, Chan M, Moreno R, Pearse RM; International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Jul;43(7):971-979. doi: 10.1007/s00134-016-4633-8. Epub 2017 Apr 25. PMID: 28439646.

Abbott TEF, Ahmad T, Phull MK, Fowler AJ, Hewson R, Biccard BM, Chew MS, Gillies M, Pearse RM; International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. The surgical safety checklist and patient outcomes after surgery: a prospective observational cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Anaesth. 2018 Jan;120(1):146-155. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2017.08.002. Epub 2017 Nov 23. PMID: 29397122.

Sims AL, Parsons N, Achten J, Griffin XL, Costa ML, Reed MR; CORNET trainee collaborative. A randomized controlled trial comparing the Thompson hemiarthroplasty with the Exeter polished tapered stem and Unitrax modular head in the treatment of displaced intracapsular fractures of the hip: the WHiTE 3: HEMI Trial. Bone Joint J. 2018 Mar 1;100-B(3):352-360. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.100B3.BJJ-2017-0872.R2. PMID: 29589786; PMCID: PMC6413801.

International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. Prospective observational cohort study on grading the severity of postoperative complications in global surgery research. Br J Surg. 2019 Jan;106(2):e73-e80. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11025. PMID: 30620066.

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans. Br J Surg. 2020 Oct;107(11):1440-1449. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11746. Epub 2020 Jun 13. PMID: 32395848; PMCID: PMC7272903.

Vint H, Mawdsley MJ, Coe C, Jensen CD, Kasis AG. The Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Proposed Thromboprophylactic Regime. Int J Spine Surg. 2021 Apr;15(2):348-352. doi: 10.14444/8045. Epub 2021 Apr 1. PMID: 33900993; PMCID: PMC8059399.

Kasis AG, Jensen C, Dharmadhikari R, Emmerson BR, Mawdsley M. Novel bone grafting technique in stand-alone ALIF procedure combining allograft and autograft (‘Northumbria Technique’)-Fusion rate and functional outcomes in 100 consecutive patients. Eur Spine J. 2021 May;30(5):1296-1302. doi: 10.1007/s00586-021-06758-8. Epub 2021 Feb 15. PMID: 33590282.

Memberships

Royal College of Surgeons England
Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
British Association of Spinal Surgeons
British Orthopaedic Association
UKITE Lead Editor Spine