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Mr Nigel Mendoza
MBBS, FRCS (SURG.NEUROL), Consultant Neurosurgeon
Languages spoken
English
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Mr Nigel Duncan Mendoza is senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Imperial NHS Healthcare trust based at Charing Cross Hospital.
Following graduation and undertaking basic surgical training he completed a recognised training programme at both registrar and senior registrar grade in Neurosurgery and following examination gained the Fellowship in Surgical Neurology awarded by the Intercollegiate Speciality Assessment Board on behalf of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Certificate of Accreditation.
He was appointed to Consultant Neurosurgeon in 1995 to Charing Cross Hospital and has 22 years of experience as an NHS Consultant Neurosurgeon.
He has continued to consolidate a clinical practice by developing specialist areas of surgical interest and taking an active part in continuous personal development and continuing medical education. He has gained a wide clinical and operative experience in neurosurgery, both cranial and spinal.
This has included:
The management of common problems caused by degenerative conditions of the spine, such as back pain, and symptomatic intervertebral disc protrusion of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine as well as more complex spinal surgery for trauma, spinal tumours, and rheumatoid arthritis.
His particular area of subspecialist interest is skull base surgery caring for patients with different problems, the most common being trigeminal neuralgia, pituitary tumours, acoustic neuroma and meningioma. The team is interdisciplinary undertaking evolving techniques of endoscopic approaches and intraopeartive neuronavigation.
Career positions
Current position(s)
- Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial NHS Healthcare trust based at Charing Cross Hospital
Past position(s)
- Consultant Neurosurgeon, Charing Cross Hospital
Education
Fellowship
- Fellowship in Surgical Neurology awarded by the Intercollegiate Speciality Assessment Board on behalf of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Certificate of Accreditation.
Expertise and interests
Interests
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Pituitary tumours
- Acoustic neuroma / vestibular neuroma
- Spinal surgery
- Endoscopic skull base surgery
- General neurosurgery
- Brain tumours
- Brain metastases
- Central nervous system tumours
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
Professional memberships
- British & European Skull Base Societies
- British Cervical Spine Society
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons
- Royal Society of Medicine