Mr Iqroop Chopra

Mr Iqroop Chopra is a Consultant Neurospinal Surgeon, specialises in neuro spinal surgery at Vale Healthcare, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan's leading private hospital and private clinics for spinal surgery serving all South Wales.

Iqroop completed his medical degree and initial post-graduation in India. Further training was done on the North Thames rotation at Imperial College and University College of London. The last two years of training were spent learning about complex spinal surgery with an accredited fellowship staged between Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. This gave a unique opportunity into the understanding of spinal pathology from both an orthopaedic and neurosurgical perspective. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and member of various spinal societies around the world.
 
A leading spinal surgeon, Mr Chopra is the first and only spinal fellowship trained neurosurgeon in Wales with targeted training in microscopic and minimally invasive techniques. These are applied into his practice in skull base procedures and intricate spinal dissection helping treat complications like CSF leak, recurrent discs, arachnoiditis and skeletal instability. He has specific interests in cervical and lumbar spinal fusions, artificial cervical disc replacement, spinal tumours - intradural and extradural, syringomyelia and Chiari malformation.
 
Iqroop has research interests in degenerative cervical disc disease: fusion verses arthroplasty and neural tissue regeneration. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has been a faculty on FRCS Spinal revision course and AO Instructors’ course.