Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Newcastle NHS foundation Trust, United Kingdom
I graduated in 1999 from the University of Dundee. Basic surgical training was in Newcastle followed by an MD investigating the cellular biology of bone metastases. Higher specialist training was in Perth and Dundee followed by a return to the North East of England as NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer.
My current post as Consultant consists of 80% oncology and 20% lower limb arthroplasty. I have protected research time in my job plan. This allows me to pursue research at Newcastle University which include basic science and translational projects such as detection of circulating tumour cells in sarcoma and the optimisation of cell surface targets for the development of fluorescence guided sarcoma surgery. I am chief investigator for the £1.41million NIHR EME SarcoSIGHT Trial which will open across the UK and Europe in 2023.
