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Professor Nasir Quraishi is a senior Consultant Spinal Sugeon and Honorary Professor based in Nottingham. He specialises in all aspects of spine surgery from the base of the skull to the sacrum, including:

- Minimally invasive surgery incl. vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty

- Degenerative spine disease (cervical/lumbar incl. decompression, discetomy, fusion surgery as well as spinal injections)

- Spinal oncology, trauma and infection

- Spinal deformity surgery (scoliosis adults and paeds)

Professor Quraishi completed his training at Imperial College London, Cambridge/East Anglia and Manchester. Following this, he received an advanced spinal neurosurgery fellowship in Toronto where he specialized in minimally invasive spine surgery, complex spinal reconstruction and paediatric spinal deformity surgery. Professor Quraishi began as a locum Consultant Spine Surgeon in Oxford. A year later, he was awarded the prestigious Norman Capner Travelling Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons in England to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA . Here, he was able to refine his surgical technique with the management of complex spinal tumours and reconstruction. In 2008, he also volunteered to work in Malawi, Africa, as the second spine surgeon in the country (to over 10 million people). He has also been visiting surgeon to the spinal units in Bologna, Italy and Vancouver, Canada. In 2014, he was 1 of 3 international spine surgeons awarded the prestigious Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Travelling Fellowship where he visited 4 host spinal surgery departments in the USA. Mr Quraishi is an award winning international presenter and author of several publications-and-presentations in peer reviewed journals whilst also being a faculty member of numerous international spine societies. He additionally completed a Master of Laws, with an honours thesis on ''Clinical Negligence and the Spine surgeon'', and a PhD in ''Outcome & Health Related Quality of Life Following Surgery in Spinal Cancers''.

His 5 star patient reviews can be viewed online.