
Mr Mark John Nowell
MB BS, MA (Oxon), PhD, FRCS (SN)Neurosurgery
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About
Mr Mark Nowell is a neurosurgeon based at Nuffield Health Bristol and Southmead Hospital. His clinical interests are in the following areas:
- Craniocervical pathology,
- Cervical spondylosis,
- Lumbar disc disease,
- Minimally invasive spine surgery,
- Intradural pathology.
He takes a patient-centred approach to care and offers a range of treatments to enable patients to make informed decisions that are right for their individual conditions.
Mr Nowell undertook neurosurgical training in Bristol before developing a subspecialty interest in spinal surgery. In 2017 he gained the British Association of Spinal Surgeons Travelling Fellowship. He then completed complex spine fellowships at the Leeds General Infirmary, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.
Mr Nowell also holds a PhD from UCL on developing advanced imaging tools and computer navigation for use in neurosurgery. He has presented his work both nationally and internationally and has published extensively. This is an area of great interest in modern spinal surgery.
With dual training in neurosurgical and orthopaedic spine surgery, Mr Nowell possesses the skills and expertise to offer his patients the most appropriate treatments for their spinal conditions. This includes degenerative disease, trauma, tumour, and infection across the spine.
For more information please click here to visit Mr Nowell's website: https://mxnspine.com/
Procedures
- Discectomy
- Complex Spinal Reconstructive Surgery
- Surgery for Myelopathy
- Spinal Injections for Pain
- Complex Revision Spinal Surgery
- Craniocervical Junction Surgery
- Lateral Access Spine Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
- Revision Lumbar Spine Surgery
- Sciatica Surgery
Special interests
- Herniated Disc or Slipped Disc
- Leg Pain
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Sciatica
- Disc Injuries
- Neck Pain
- Chiari Malformation
- Foot Drop
- Nerve Root Entrapment
- Nerve Tumours
- Upper Limb Pain
Education
Education
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Neurosurgery Mar 2016
- PhD at University College London, Novel Multimodality Imaging Techniques for Neurosurgical Planning and Stereotactic Navigation in Epiepsy Surgery Aug 2015
- Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England June 2006
- Final Honour School Physiological Sciences (MA Oxon), University of Oxford 2004
- MB BS parts III-VII (Clinical), Imperial College School of Medicine 2006
- First BM pts I-II (Pre-clinical), Oriel College, University of Oxford 2000
- Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall 1990-1997
Experience
- Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, Southmead Hospital, Bristol Feb 2020
- Locum Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Leeds General Infirmary Sep19-Jan 20
- Complex Spine Fellowship, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London Aug 18-19
- Complex Spine Fellowship, Leeds General Infirmary Aug 17-18
- Neurosurgery training, Severn Deanery 2008-2017