Biography:

Mark was born and schooled in Glasgow, before he moved to Edinburgh for his Undergraduate Medical Education. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1998, and then spent the next 5 years completing his basic surgical training in Edinburgh. Following this he became Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2001 after passing his general surgical exams. The next 5 years were spent as a Specialist Registrar on the North of Scotland Trauma and Orthopaedic Rotation. In 2007 he passed the Intercollegiate Trauma and Orthopaedic Exam and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

In July 2008 he took up post as an Advanced Hand Trainee, appointed by the Interface Group in Hand Surgery, in Oxford working with internationally known hand surgeons Peter Burge, Henk Geile, Ian Mcnab, Paul Critchley and Chris Little. From January 2009 to October 2009, he took a further Interface appointed Advanced Hand Training Post, at Wrightington Hospital, working with Internationally know surgeons Professor John Stanley, Ian Trail, Mike Hayton and Professor Raj Murali.

Mark is now an established Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon in the West of Scotland. His current NHS practice is at Inverclyde Royal Hospital and The Royal Alexandra Hospital, where he manages patients from his local area, but also receives tertiary and out-of-area referrals. Since 2009, he has established clinics at Ross Hall and the Nuffield Hospital.

Clinical Interests:

Mark is a Hand and Upper Limb Orthopaedic and Trauma Consultant, managing both acute trauma of the upper limb and elective problems. He specialises in complex wrist pathology, undertaking wrist trauma (fractures and ligament injuries), replacements, partial fusions and sports injuries. However, he also has a long experience of treating Dupuytren's Disease (new and recurrent), along with research into minimally invasive procedures.

Currently his regular procedures include:

Open reduction and internal fixation of hand, wrist, elbow, clavicle and shoulder fractures

- Flexor and extensor tendon repair, tendon transfer, tendon grafting and reconstruction

- Trigger finger release, trigger finger injection, tendon release, De Quervains release, tenosynovectomy, tenolysis

- Carpal tunnel release, carpal tunnel injection, revision carpal tunnel release

- Cubital tunnel release/ulnar nerve decompression and transposition along with nerve release

- Aspiration of excision/removal/biopsy of hand swellings, ganglion, mucous cyst, giant cell tumor etc.

- Dupuytrens contracture: fasciotomy and fasciectomy

- Wrist ligament repair and reconstruction: scapholunate ligament, lunotriquetral ligament etc.

- Percutaneous and open Scaphoid fracture fixation, fracture non-union reconstruction and bone grafting

- Corrective osteotomy and bone grafting with fixation for mal-union of fractures of the hand and distal radius etc.

- Scapho-trapezio-trapzoid joint (STT) arthrodesis or excision arthroplasty

- Proximal row carpectomy

- Total wrist replacement or fusion

- Wrist arthroscopy

- Small joint replacements in the hand and wrist

- Thumb carpometacarpal joint: trapezectomy, arthroplasty (replacement) and arthrodesis.

- Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint ligament repair, reconstruction, fusion/arthrodesis

- Tennis and Golfer’s elbow surgery (TOPAZ)

- Shoulder Arthroscopy