Mr Pratipal Kalsi

Dr Pratipal Kalsi is a highly skilled and experienced Consultant Neurosurgeon specialising in Spinal Surgery at The Lister Hospital. He completed his medical degree at Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London in 2003. Dr Kalsi later completed specialist fellowship training in neurosurgery and spinal surgery at the Krembil Brain Institute, University of Toronto in Canada and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He was appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgery at the Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust in 2018.

Dr Kalsi's commitment to advancing medical knowledge is evident in his pursuit of a PhD in spinal cord injury repair and regeneration at the Institute of Neurology, UCL. Throughout his research, he investigated innovative strategies to enhance the repair of spinal cord injuries, contributing to the advancement of this critical field. His contributions to the field of spine surgery have earned him numerous accolades, including the Ronald Raven Barber Award for oncological surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons, the Codman Travelling Fellowship, and a scholarship to study spine surgery at the esteemed University of California San Francisco Department of Spinal Surgery.

Dr Kalsi has specialist expertise in performing a wide range of procedures, such as anterior cervical discectomy & fusion, cervical disc replacement, cervical laminectomy, foraminotomy, lumbar microdiscectomy, lumbar laminectomy, spine fusions for adult degenerative disorders, metastatic spine tumour surgery, intradural spine pathologies (tumours, CSF flow disorders, shunts), spine trauma surgery, surgery for spine infections, spine injections for pain relief, minimally invasive spine surgery, vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty.

In addition to his academic achievements, Dr Kalsi has a rich publication record and has presented his findings at national and international meetings. He also holds professional memberships with the British Association of Spinal Surgeons, Society of British Neurological Surgeons, and AOSpine North America.

Selected publications:

Kalsi P, Hejrati N, Charalampidis A, Wu PH, Schneider M, Wilson JR, Gao AF, Massicotte EM, Fehlings MG. Spinal arachnoid cysts: A case series and systematic review of the literature. Brain Spine. 2022 Jun 15;2:100904. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2022.100904. 

Kalsi P, Zaidman N, Jain A, Prezerakos G, Casey A, Russo VM. Surgical management of giant paraspinal thoracic schwannomas. World Neurosurgery Jan 28:S1878-8750(20)32566-3.

Kalsi P, Thom M Choi D. The histological effects of fibrin glue and tissue adhesives on the spinal cord: Are they safe to use? British Journal of Neurosurgery 2017 Dec;31(6): 695-700

Charalampidis A, Hejrati N, Ramakonar H, Kalsi PS, Massicotte EM, Fehlings MG. Clinical outcomes and revision rates following four-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 29;12(1):5339.

Schneider MM, Badhiwala JH, Alvi MA, Tetreault LA, Kalsi P, Idler RK, Wilson JR, Fehlings MG. Prevalence of neck pain in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy and short-term response after operative treatement: A Cohort study of 664 patients from 26 global sites. Global Spine J. 2022 Sep 8:21925682221124098.

Charalampidis A, Canizares M, Kalsi P, Hung Wu P, Johnson M, Soroceanu A, Nataraj A, Glennie A, Rasoulinejad P, Attabib N, Hall H, Fisher C, Thomas K, Rampersaud Y. Differentiation of pain related functional limitations in surgical patients with lumbar spinal stenosis using the ODI: a Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network (CSORN) study. Spine 2021 Oct 23:S1529-9430(21)00968-2

Kalsi P, Mukerji N, Manjunath Prasad KS. Treatment of carotid cavernous fistulas with external manual carotid compression – The UK Experience.  British Journal of Neurosurgery 2020 Feb; 34(6); 701-703. 

Kalsi P, Mukerji N. Treatment by specialist surgical neurooncologists improves survival times for patients with malignant glioma. Journal of Neurosurgery. 2016 Jan 1:1-2.

Gladwin K, Kalsi P, Choi D. Rat brachial plexus ventral root repair model. Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery. 2016 Jan 7;3(12):e576

Shekhar H, Kalsi P, Dambatta S, Strachan R. Do antibiotic impregnated external ventricular catheters have a low infection rate in clinical practise? British Journal of Neurosurgery. 2015(10)15:1-6.

Balasubramanian K, Kalsi P, Manjunath Prasad KS, Greenough CG. Reliability of clinical examination in diagnosing cauda equina syndrome. British Journal of Neurosurgery. Aug 2010;24(4):383-6