Mr Shahnawaz Haleem

Mr Haleem is a triple fellowship trained Consultant Spinal surgeon, a specialist whose training fellowships covered the whole breadth of adult and paediatric spinal surgery including deformity, degenerative, tumours, inflammatory and musculoskeletal presentations.   His adult degenerative and deformity practice is based at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. His practice in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital consists of dual-surgeon paediatric deformity correction operative procedures.   Mr Haleem completed his Higher Orthopaedic Training Programme obtaining his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) from the prestigious London Deanery where he was inspired to take up a career in Spinal Surgery. He has consequently actively worked towards developing and enhancing his specialist skills in world class training centres both in the United Kingdom and worldwide. He has also gained the EUROSPINE Spine Diploma and the EUROSPINE Advanced Spine Diploma during this process. His three complex spinal fellowships at the world-class and cutting-edge Southampton, Oxford and St. George’s University Hospitals provided a unique opportunity to work closely with several leading lights in spinal surgery and neurosurgical colleagues in Major Trauma Centres exposing him to a wide range of degenerative, trauma and elective experiences involving the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine that have shaped his patient-centred, empathic yet scientific and thoughtful approach to patient care. He has travelled overseas on prize-winning fellowships to Hong Kong and Istanbul to improve his spinal and paediatric spinal skills at renowned centres where he gained immensely from leading spinal experts. He is known to be a thinking surgeon who always tries to find a safer and better way of improving patient care and outcomes. This is evidenced in his two eponymous classifications that improve patient safety and care worldwide. Mr Haleem is known for his scientific approach and has authored, taught and presented worldwide. He is very active in research and his published research involves both adult and paediatric topics that are extending the boundaries of patient care in general and spinal surgery in particular. He is active with major spinal and orthopaedic societies and holds leadership roles where he enjoys interacting and improving the spread of knowledge in a bid to help patients worldwide.   He enjoys his patient interaction and places his patient at the centre of all of his decisions which he makes with an active consultation process in easy to understand language.

He is fully trained in the entire spectrum of adult and paediatric spinal surgery involving deformity, degenerative, trauma, tumour, inflammatory and musculoskeletal presentations. He is involved in the treatment of all aspects of spinal presentations including degenerative neck and back pain, radiating arm and leg pain, slipped discs, compressive pathologies requiring decompression and fusion, slipped vertebrae, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis and kyphosis. He understands that every person is unique and treats every presentation uniquely.