Mr Paul Rhys Davies

Mr Paul Rhys Davies is a senior consultant spinal surgeon in South Wales, bringing vast experience and expertise to his private consultant practice, offering specialist spine surgery at Vale Healthcare, South Wales leading private hospital and private clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Mr Davies is Cardiff born, trained at Westminster Medical School, London, UK before moving on to St Thomas` Hospital for general surgery. His spinal surgical training was carried out at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, the N.O.C. Oxford and at the Queens Medical Centre Spine Unit in Nottingham. He was awarded a specialist scoliosis travelling fellowship to Minneapolis in the USA and also visited the Spine Unit in Berck, France as an addition. The breadth of his training as you can see is vast and he has picked up all the best techniques from each of these centres on the way! Mr Davies is a Fellow of the Royal College of  Surgeons (London) and is a Council member of the British Scoliosis Society.

Mr Davies was the first whole time fellowship trained spinal surgeon to be appointed in Wales over ten years ago. Since his appointment to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and Llandough Hospital, South Wales, the spinal unit in Cardiff has grown and developed into one of the top spinal units in the UK and now has both a national and international reputation for excellence in the treatment of spinal pathologies. Mr Davies is the senior member of the department and has been seminal in the evolution of the unit over the last ten years. The department now has five fully trained spinal surgeons and is one of the busiest spine units in the country.

The Cardiff spine unit, spearheaded by Mr Davies, has international recognition particularly in the field of pioneering state of the art surgery and research in basic sciences and clinical fields. It also has European recognition for the training of future spinal surgeons and is one of two centres in the UK with the European Reference licence. This means visitation and training of spinal fellows from both home and worldwide. Indeed Mr Davies has trained most of his own department at one time or other!

Cardiff now has such a reputation for spines that in 2006 Mr Davies and the unit were asked to host the Britspine meeting, the biggest spinal meeting in the UK involving all four of the main spine societies. This was duly organised by the local unit at the Cardiff International Arena in South Wales, with Mr Davies as the host chairman and was a great success.

Mr Paul Rhys Davies is regularly invited to lecture and operate at other spine centres in both the UK and abroad and is recognised as being an international thought leader particularly on new and innovative spinal techniques and clinical management of spinal conditions. He has operated abroad in countries such as Germany and Spain and recently carried out major scoliosis surgery on an orphan boy from Swaziland in Africa as a charity case within the Trust. Find out more about Scoliosis treatment at Vale Healthcare

April 2012 | Mr Paul Rhys Davies features on S4C's Doctor Doctor...