Priyan grew up in Kent and was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury where he was a King’s Scholar. He studied medicine at Imperial College, London and completed his basic surgical training at Guy’s, St Thomas’s and King’s College Hospitals in London. He then joined the Bristol Orthopaedic Training Programme and completed his higher surgical training in hospitals in Bristol and the Severn Region.

Priyan has undertaken adult and paediatric complex spine fellowships in Bristol and in New Zealand, with Peter Robertson and colleagues at Auckland City Hospital and Starship Children’s Hospital. His comprehensive training has covered surgery in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine in all age groups. He has learned the latest techniques in interbody fusion, navigation and minimally invasive surgery.

Priyan has a strong research interest and has a master’s degree in orthopaedic engineering and a research doctorate in spinal biomechanics and the optimisation of vertebral augmentation. He has been a recipient of a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellowship and has won several awards including best research paper at the Australian Spine Society, the American Society for Spine Radiology and the Society for Back Pain Research. He is also on the editorial board of Bone & Joint 360, which is the leading review journal in orthopaedic surgery.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Imperial College, London, 1999

MB BS Imperial College, London, 2002

MSc (Orthopaedic Engineering) Cardiff University, 2008

FRCS (Tr&Orth) Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2011

MD (Spinal Biomechanics) University of Bristol, 2013

CCT (Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery) 2014

Executive Healthcare Leadership Programme Cornell University, New York, 2015

Key publications in spinal surgery

The effect of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions on Oswestry Disability Index scores: a comparative cross-sectional study.
Filer J, Fleming T, Morris S, Upadhyay N, Landham P, Katsimihas M, Harding I.
European Spine Journal. 2022 Nov;31(11):2844-2850.

Myelography in the Assessment of Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis and Its Influence on Surgical Management.
McKay G, Torrie PA, Bertram W, Landham PR, Morris S, Hutchinson J, Watura R, Harding I.
Korean Journal of Spine. 2017 Dec;14(4):133-138.

Do position and size matter? An analysis of cage and placement variables for optimum lordosis in PLIF reconstruction.
Landham PR, Don AS, Robertson PA.
European Spine Journal. 2017 Nov;26(11):2843-2850.

Development and validation of a subject-specific finite element model of the functional spinal unit to predict vertebral strength.
Lee CH, Landham PR, Eastell R, Adams MA, Dolan P, Yang L.
Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers H. 2017 Sep;231(9):821-830.

Universal No-fault Compensation is Associated With Improved Return to Work Rates in Spine Fusion.
Manson JF, Landham PR, Cunningham JE, Montgomery AS, Don AS, Robertson PA.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2015 Oct 15;40(20):1620-31.

Pathogenesis of Vertebral Anterior Wedge Deformity: A 2-Stage Process?
Landham PR, Gilbert SJ, Baker-Rand HL, Pollintine P, Robson Brown KA, Adams MA, Dolan P.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2015 Jun 15;40(12):902-8.

Is kyphoplasty better than vertebroplasty at restoring form and function after severe vertebral wedge fractures?
Landham PR, Baker-Rand HL, Gilbert SJ, Pollintine P, Annesley-Williams DJ, Adams MA, Dolan P.
Spine Journal. 2015 Apr 1;15(4):721-32.

Intervertebral disc decompression following endplate damage: implications for disc degeneration depend on spinal level and age.
Dolan P, Luo J, Pollintine P, Landham PR, Stefanakis M, Adams MA.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Aug 1;38(17):1473-81.

Podium Presentations

Does cement distribution vary between vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty following augmentation of severe VCFs Landham PR, Byrne R, Lewis A, Gosling S, Robson-Brown K, Annesley-Williams DJ, Adams MA, Dolan P European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), Naples, Italy, 17 Sept 2015

Optimising lumbar lordosis during PLIF surgery, Landham PR, Don AS,  Robertson PA BASS Annual Meeting, Bath, UK, 19 Mar 2015

Intervertebral cage position determines mono-segmental lordosis in lumbar spine reconstruction with PLIF – a radiological study. Landham PR, Don AS, Robertson PA

  • New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Tauranga, NZ 21 Oct 2014
  • Spine Society of Australia 26th Annual Scientific Meeting, Canberra, Australia, 11 Apr 2015. Awarded Best Paper
  • International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), San Francisco, CA, USA, Jun 2015

Vertebral Fracture Discrimination in Postmenopausal Women using a Subject-Specific Finite Element Model of the Disc-Vertebra-Disc Unit. Lee C-H, Debono M, Eastell R, Landham PR, Adams MA, Dolan P, Yang L. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, USA,
14 Sept 2014

Development and validation of a subject-specific finite element model of the functional spinal unit. Lee C-H, Landham P, Eastell R, Adams MA, Dolan P, Yang L. 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, MA, USA, 6 Jul 2014

Comparison of Vertebral Strengths derived from FE models of the Vertebral Body and the Vertebral Body with Posterior Elements. Lee C-H, Landham P, Eastell R, Adams MA, Dolan P, Yang L. Meditech 2014 – 4th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Healthcare through Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7 Jun 2014

Universal No Fault Compensation is associated with Improved Return to Work Rates in Spine Fusion. Manson JF, Montgomery AS, Cunningham JE, Landham PR, Don AS, Robertson PA. International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), Seoul, South Korea, 6 Jun 2014

Assessment of vertebral strength using finite element model of the Functional Spinal Unit: Effects of different yield criteria. Lee C-H, Landham P, Adams MA, Dolan P, Eastell R, Yang L 8th INSIGNEO, Sheffield, UK, 8 May 2014

Validation of the Perdriolle technique for measurement of apical vertebral rotation using digitally stored and enhanced radiographs. Grannum S, Landham P, McKay G, Patel MS, Hutchinson J, Hutchinson MJ, Nelson IW. BritSpine, Warwick, UK, 2 Apr 2014

Impact of no fault compensation following spinal fusion. Manson JF, Montgomery AS, Cunningham JE, Landham PR, Don AS, Robertson PA. New Zealand Spine Society, Hanmer Springs, Christchurch, NZ, 15 Nov 2013

The pathogenesis of thoracolumbar vertebral wedge fractures. Landham PR, Baker-Rand HL, Gilbert SJ, Pollintine P, Annesley-Williams DJ, Adams MA, Dolan P. International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 14 May 2013

Is kyphoplasty better at restoring vertebral shape than vertebroplasty in severe, acute vertebral compression fractures? Landham PR, Baker H, Gilbert S, Pollintine P, Annesley-Williams DJ, Adams MA, Dolan P

  • American Society for Spine Radiology, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 21 Feb 2013. Awarded Best Paper
  • British Society of Neuroradiologists Annual Conference, Belfast, NI, 11 Oct 2014
  • Society for Back Pain Research, Isle of Man, 9 Nov 2012