Dr Colum Patrick Nolan
Neurosurgeon
Specialty
Neurosurgery
Languages
English
Gender
Male
Insurance Panel
Great Eastern, HSBC Life, Income, Prudential^, Singlife
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Experience
Dr Colum Nolan is a neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.
He specialises in spinal and cranial neurosurgery, with expertise in minimally invasive spine surgery, motion preservation surgery, and image-guided spinal navigation.
His practice focuses on the diagnosis and management of neck pain, back pain, spinal disorders, and selected brain conditions, with surgery recommended only when clinically appropriate. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience.
Dr Nolan manages a comprehensive range of spinal conditions affecting the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. His clinical expertise includes degenerative spine disorders, cervical spinal cord compression (myelopathy), slipped discs, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, spinal tumours, spinal trauma, spinal infections and osteoporosis-related spinal fractures.
He also evaluates patients presenting with persistent neck pain, back pain, sciatica, limb numbness or weakness, gait instability, and other symptoms related to spinal nerve or spinal cord compression.
Prior to entering private practice, Dr Nolan held several senior leadership appointments at Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), including director of the Spine and Spinal Disorders Programme, head of Neurosurgery Service at Sengkang General Hospital, and senior consultant neurosurgeon.
Dr Nolan graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and completed his neurosurgical training in Ireland and Australia, including an intra-residency fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He later completed a fellowship in complex spine surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, with a rotation at the orthopaedic spine unit at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Besides his expertise in minimally invasive spine surgery, he is also experienced in intradural tumour surgery, complex cervical spine surgery and spinal navigation technology.
Associated treatments
- Spine surgery
- Spinal laminectomy & spinal stabilisation procedures
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty
Awards and honours
- 2022
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Gold)
Fellowship and accreditation
- 2001
MB BCh BAO (RCSI) (National U of Ireland, Ireland)
LRCP/ LRCS (RCS, Ireland) - 2004
MRCS (RCS, Ireland) - 2011
FRCS (RCS, Ireland)
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