Consultant Profile

Mr Steven Lau BSc (Hons), MBChB, FRCS (Tr and Orth)

Practising at: Ashford

Specialties: Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, Spinal Surgery

Special clinical interests: Degenerate spinal conditions and back pain
Disc herniation and sciatica
Spinal stenosis
Degenerate discs
Discogenic pain
Spinal instability
Spinal fractures
Kyphoplasty
Sacro-iliac joint pain
Sacro-iliac joint fusion
Coccygeal pain
Thoracic back pain
Cervical / neck pain
Orthopaedic trauma

Research interests: Back pain and motion preservation surgery
Sacro-iliac joint pain

Current NHS and /or university posts: Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 2001, Edinburgh University

Background Information

Brought up in the East Kent area, Mr Lau qualified from medical school at Edinburgh University where he obtained a first class honours in his intercalated degree.

His basic surgical training took place at St. Barts and the Royal London Hospitals, before being appointed as a trauma fellow at the Royal London Hospital.
Mr Lau completed his higher surgical training on the prestigious South East Thames rotation, gaining his FRCS (Tr & Orth) in 2010.

Between 2010-2012, Mr Lau trained on the spinal fellowship as the University Hospital of Wales and worked at the Conquest Hospital, Hastings spinal fellow.