Rate My Professor Shay Mandler

In his clinical practice, Mandler is a consultant spine surgeon at Capital & Coast District Health Board, affiliated with Wellington Regional Hospital, a position he has held since August 2021. At the University of Otago, he has been contributing since January 2022, focusing on educating medical students. His expertise encompasses comprehensive adult and paediatric spinal surgery, including deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis, degenerative disc disease, disc protrusions, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, cervical radiculopathy, spinal trauma, osteoporotic fractures, and procedures like fusions, disc replacements, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and minimally invasive spinal injections. He also manages orthopaedic trauma. Mandler is actively involved in research and medical innovation, with publications addressing critical topics in spine surgery. Notable works include "Antibiotic-Resistant Spondylodiscitis With Canal Invasion and Aggressive Evolution to Epidural Abscess: A Case Series of Spontaneous Occurrence in 16 Patients" published in the International Journal of Spine Surgery in 2018; "Risk Factors for Distal Construct Failure in Posterior Spinal Instrumented Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study" in 2023; "A Comparison of ChatGPT and Expert Consensus Statements on Surgical Site Infection Prevention in High-Risk Paediatric Spine Surgery" in 2024; "Cauda Equina Syndrome During Labour - A Diagnostic Challenge and Proposed Management Algorithm" in 2025; and "A Knotless Locking Subcuticular Skin Suture Technique - 'Hadlow Suture'" in 2021. He maintains memberships in prestigious organizations such as the North American Spine Society (NASS), AOspine, AOtrauma, Israeli Orthopaedic Association (IOA), and Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA). Mandler achieved full New Zealand medical registration on 22 September 2020, with a vocational scope in Orthopaedic Surgery.