Mr Matthew Garnett
Qualifications
BM BCh, MA, DM, FRCS(Neuro Surg)
GMC number: 4042602
Practising since: 1993
Specialties
Neurosurgery
Consultation times
- Weekly Tuesday PM
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About
Mr Garnett is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. He qualified in 1993 having studied at Cambridge University for his pre-clinical training and Oxford University for his clinical training. Mr Garnett undertook his post-graduate training in Oxford and Bristol. This included a 3 year period of research into traumatic brain injury as a Medical Research Council Clinical Fellow. After completing his training he spent a year as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in Bristol and as an International Fellow in Paris. He then took up his definitive post as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in Cambridge.
He has a busy neurosurgical practice treating both adults and paediatric patients with hydrocephalus, degenerative spinal conditions, head injury, pain, spasticity, and brain tumours.
Other interests
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cervical Discectomy
- Cervical Foraminotomy
- Hydrocephalus
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension / Benign intracranial hypertension
- Head injury
- Spasticity
- Failed back surgery syndrome
Treatments and tests offered by Mr Matthew Garnett at Nuffield Health
- Lumbar discectomy
- Spinal (lumbar) Decompression
- Trauma Surgery
- Cervical Spine Surgery
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Research
On-going research projects in traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, oncology, infections in neurosurgery, epilepsy and non-accidental head injury in children
Memberships
- Fellow Royal College of Surgeons
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons
- British Association of Spine Surgeons
- British Paediatric Neurosurgical Group
- Medical Defence Union
Other posts held
- Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge