Professional profile
My main clinical interests are in arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) of the shoulder and elbow. The most common conditions I treat include shoulder instability (dislocations), frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tears, impingement and acromioclavicular joint arthritis/degeneration and all sports injuries of the shoulder and elbow. I perform joint replacement for shoulder and elbow arthritis including joint resurfacing and total joint replacement including both standard and reverse polarity arthroplasties (“the reverse shoulder replacement”).
My undergraduate medical training was in South Africa, followed by 10 years of postgraduate orthopaedic training in Bristol, Aberdeen, Stanmore and Oswestry. I completed a shoulder fellowship in Toronto, Canada prior to becoming a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at West Herts NHS Trust in 1997, a post I held for over 20 years.
Throughout my life I have loved playing and watching sport and I understand the frustrations felt by sports people when injury affects their ability to take part in their sport.
Another large part of my practice is advising patients as they get older with aching joints that may require joint replacement. Within my NHS role I am responsible for training higher surgical trainees and I am a member of the North West Thames Training Rotation Committee.
My practice is divided between advising patients as they get older with aching joints and advising younger people with joint injuries and pain, often from sport or their weekend hobbies such as skiing, tennis, weightlifting and cycling.
Within my NHS role I was responsible for training higher surgical trainees and I was a member of the North West Thames Training Rotation Committee. I regularly attend specialty conferences (several times a year) relating to upper limb surgery which keeps me up to date.
General Medical Council Number: C3161401
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