Biography:

I am a Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon based in Edinburgh. I am on the Specialist Register for Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and my NHS Consultant post is at the Lothian Hand Unit (NHS Lothian) at St John's Hospital in Livingston. My specialist practice is dedicated entirely to the hand and wrist and I have both the British and European Diplomas in Hand Surgery. I manage the full breadth of sporting, traumatic and age-related (degenerative) hand conditions. I completed medicolegal training with Bond Solon in October 2022. I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office.

I have written book chapters on hand surgery topics and published in leading scientific journals, including the Journal of Hand Surgery (European volume). In 2019, I was selected to join the UK organising committee of the London 2022 triennial world congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH). I maintain a strong interest in surgical education, including the training of current and future surgeons. I am regularly invited to teach on UK and international courses, including in Dubai, Hong Kong and Strasbourg. Currently, I am a tutor for the University of Edinburgh's Masters (ChM) in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and on the organising committee of the BSSH flagship Instructional Course in Hand Surgery. I was a Council member of the International Wrist Arthroscopy Society (IWAS) for the period 2022-2025.

Having graduated from King's College London (Guy's, King's College & St Thomas' Hospitals), University of London, in 2007, I completed my orthopaedic residency training on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore) training programme in London. This provided specialist training at leading hospitals, including the Royal Free, Great Ormond Street and Stoke Mandeville. During my residency, I was President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees' Association (BOTA) and a Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS) and the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA).

Following my residency, I completed two years of advanced subspecialist orthoplastic hand and wrist fellowship training at the Lothian Hand Unit (St John's Hospital) and the hand unit at Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire. With travel awards from the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) and the BOA, I completed travelling fellowships in Paris (Institut de la Main), Barcelona (Institut Kaplan) and Oslo (Sykehuset Østfold).

Clinical Interests:

Hand surgery; Wrist surgery; Sports injuries of the hand and wrist (including fractures and ligament injuries); Tendonitis (including De Quervain's syndrome); Lumps and bumps in the hand and wrist; Carpal tunnel syndrome (median nerve compression); Cubital tunnel syndrome (ulnar nerve compression); Trigger finger; Dupuytren's contracture; Ganglions of the hand and wrist; Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex (TFCC) wrist pathology; Arthroscopy (keyhole) surgery; Arthritis (including base of thumb and wrist); Scaphoid fractures including non-union.