John Sutcliffe

Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon | London

John Sutcliffe trained as an undergraduate in Edinburgh, gaining the year prize for systematic surgery and qualifying in 1983. His early medical post-graduate training was also in Edinburgh, after qualification, taking in a large number of specialties including plastic, orthopaedic and paediatric surgery before focusing on neurosurgery.

He undertook Neurosurgical training posts in Sheffield and London and developed an extensive experience of treating spinal conditions ranging from tumours and trauma to the commoner degenerative spinal conditions. He was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon in 1993 and since that time has concentrated exclusively in the management of patients with spinal disorders.

He developed the concept of the multi-disciplinary team approach to spinal disorders, setting up the London Spine Clinic in 1997 and resigned from the NHS in 2000. He remains an Emeritus Consultant at Barts' and the London NHS Trust. The London Spine Clinic was the first unit of its kind in the UK and continues with the same philosophy today.

Mr Sutcliffe has trained young spinal surgeons, as training director in his NHS career and as supervisor for the spinal fellowship at the London Spine Clinic and London Clinic Hospital. He runs a regular teaching and training program within the Clinic, in both surgical and non-surgical aspects of spine care.

Contact details:
Ingrid Butler
I.Butler@thelondonclinic.co.uk
020 7616 7720
https://www.londonspineclinic.com

Jonathan Houghton

Consultant In Sports Medicine And Rheumatology | London

Jon has wide and extensive experience in treating elite athletes, military personnel, city workers and all those who are physically active or in pain. He specialises in tendon pain utilising Ultrasound and UTC scanning for diagnosis and Ultrasound Guided Injections and ESWT (Shockwave) as potential treatments. He also has a wide range of experience in upper and lower limb overuse and running injuries, bone stress injuries, adolescent overuse injuroes, hip and groin pain, exercise induced leg pain and injury rehabilitation. His rheumatology interests are gout, inflammatory spinal conditions and inflammatory joint conditions that affect young or athletic people.

Jon has excellent communication skills and promotes a multidisciplinary approach, liaising effectively with physiotherapists, osteopaths/chiropractors, pain doctors and orthopaedic surgeons to get the best results for his patients. He understands the significant effects that injury and pain can have on normal day to day life and promotes physical activity in all of his treatment plans.

Jon was head of the Wales medical team in the hugely successful EURO 2016 tournament and continues to look after Wales Football and the recent county cricket champions, Surrey.

Contact details:

Secretary: Linda/Bhavini 

Phone: 0203 815 3052

Email: houghton@fortiusclinic.com

Serge Nikolic

Consultant In Pain Medicine | London

Dr Serge Nikolic is a Consultant in Pain Medicine based in St Bartholomew’s Hospital and London Bridge Hospital. He offers a service of the highest clinical standards that is firmly founded on the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Bob Chatterjee

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon | London

Mr Bob Chatterjee is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chief of Spinal Surgery at The Hospital of St John’s & St Elizabeth's and Spinal Development Lead at The London Clinic. He is also Clinical Director of Harley Street Spine.

Alagappan Sivaraman

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon | London

Mr Sivaraman is a full-time private consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon. He specialises in spinal surgery with a main interest in degenerative disorders of the spine including back and neck pain.

Mr Sivaraman had fellowship training in the treatment of spinal deformity, inflammatory spinal pathologies (rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis), degenerative conditions of the neck and lower back, spinal tumours and infections eg spinal tuberculosis. 

He strongly believes in the active conservative management of various degenerative disorders with a team approach. As such he routinely offers various spinal injections including facet blocks, medial branch blocks, nerve blocks and radiofrequency rhizotomies. 

During his training Mr Sivaraman worked as a visiting spinal fellow in Germany, the United States and India. He completed his spinal fellowship training at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital and at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, Middlesex under both orthopaedic and spinal neurosurgeons. 

Mr Sivaraman worked as a consultant orthopaedic and spinal surgeon at Bart’s and The Royal London Hospital until late 2011. Now practising in the independent sector, he does continue to provide an NHS e-referral service for the management of back and neck pain patients. 

He is the author of a spinal chapter in a medical text book and has published papers and routinely presented at various international conferences and meetings. Mr Sivaraman is part of faculty higher specialty training courses (FRCS Orth) in the UK and abroad.