Mr.Mahesh R Akula, a Consultant Spine Surgeon, practising in South and North London at reputed London Hospitals. He completed his graduation including an intercalated three years master’s degree in Trauma & Orthopaedics in 2001, from the University of Health Sciences, India. He then immigrated to the UK for further surgical training in 2004. He completed his Basic surgical training in Yorkshire in 2008. As a research fellow at Leeds, he actively presented and published in several national and international venues and reputed journals. He was selected for higher surgical training in Trauma & Orthopaedics by the London deanery in 2010 and completed the training in 2016 from Southwest Thames London rotation led by St. Georges University Hospital.

Mr Akula concentrated his registrar training to become a spine surgeon, spending two and a half years on the spinal unit in various spinal units across Southwest England including Brighton, Frimley Park, and Epsom & St Heliers. Then he did a further one-year advanced spinal surgery fellowship at Frimley Park hospital. To master his complex Spinal surgery skills in Spinal tumours, trauma and deformities he did complex spinal surgery fellowship in international renowned Krembil Neuroscience centre in Toronto, Canada. This fellowship is a combined Neurosurgery & Spinal Orthopaedic surgery fellowship that enabled Mahesh to broaden his understanding of spinal pathology and management from the perspective of both Neurosurgery & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Out of his profession, he is an active member of AMMA foundation, a charitable trust and has successfully constructed orphanages in Haiti, India and generated funds for the Ebola outbreak. His interview was telecasted in BBC Yorkshire.