A/Prof James van Gelder

A/Prof James van Gelder

A/Prof. James van Gelder is the director of Neurosurgery at Concord Hospital and a senior consultant at Liverpool Hospital. He operates privately at the Sydney Adventist and Sydney Southwest Private Hospital. He is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the UNSW and a teaching faculty member for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. A/Prof. van Gelder studied medicine at Melbourne University and completed his neurosurgical fellowship in Sydney. He has a Medical Doctorate in Physiology, a graduate diploma in Clinical Epidemiology and a Masters in Medical Statistics. His current academic interests are in critical appraisal, evidence-based medicine and biomedical engineering.

A/Prof. van Gelder is an expert in:

Spine disc injuries and degeneration
Spine trauma
Spine deformity such as spondylolithesis and scoliosis
Spine tumours such as metastasis and primary tumours
Spinal stenosis such as cervical myelopathy and lumbar stenosis
Pain including diagnosis and spinal stimulators
Minimal access spinal surgery (Keyhole)

Brain trauma
Brain tumours
Aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations
Malformations such as Chiari
Hydrocephalus
Pituitary tumours
Peripheral nerve conditions including carpal tunnel
Pain including spinal stimulators, occipital neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia ...read more