Mr Abdul Gaffar Dudhniwala
MBBS, M.S.(ORTH), MRCS ED, FRCS (TR.&ORTH)
Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal and Trauma Surgeon
Mr Dudhniwala is a fellowship-trained spinal surgeon with trauma and orthopaedic surgery training from the Welsh orthopaedic rotation and postgraduate orthopaedic training from Mumbai. His elective practise primarily involves treatment of degenerative spinal conditions of cervical and lumbar spine with minimally invasive techniques.
Mr Dudhniwala’s NHS practice is based at Royal Free London NHS Trust, where besides spinal surgery he is also involved in the provision of orthopaedic trauma (fracture) care. He is actively involved in the teaching of undergraduate students, training of junior doctors and teaches as a faculty in orthopaedic training courses and postgraduate teaching programmes.
Mr Dudhniwala has been published in many peer-reviewed medical journals and also contributed to a textbook with a chapter on spine. He has extensively presented at national and international conferences.
Hospital Locations
Royal Free Hospital, Hadley Wood Hospital
Year qualified
1997
Languages spoken
English, Hindi, Urdu and Marathi
Specialities
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Spinal Surgery
- Trauma
Memberships
- GMC Number: 6064705 ( Specialist Registration: Trauma & Orthopaedics)
- British Association of Spinal Surgeons
- The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- PHIN (Private Healthcare Information Network) Access PHIN profile
Registration and licensing
GMC:6064705
Procedures offered
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Radicular pain
- Sciatica
- Cervical fusion
- Disc replacements
- Lumbar decompression
- Lumbar discectomy
- Lumbar fusion operations
- Epidurals
- Facet joint injections
- Nerve root blocks
- Balloon kyphoplasty
- Spinal fracture with fixation
- Vertebroplasty
- Carpal tunnel syndrome treatment
- Treatment of most fractures and injuries in the limbs and hip with operative and non-operative methods
- Ulnar nerve release surgery