Mr Alan Norrish

BSc, MB BChir, LLM, PhD, FRCS (Orth) 

 

Hip and Knee Specialist

 

Main areas of expertise

 

• Sports injury

• Knee surgery

• Hip surgery

 

Professional profile

 

Alan Norrish qualified as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2007 and has practiced as a consultant since then, performing over 4000 operations.  He has a strong interest in charity work and since 2005 has spent 4 years doing full-time charity work in Malawi, Zambia, the Middle East and Afghanistan.  He makes regular trips to these areas to help train local surgeons.

 

Alan has had training in sports knee surgery and adult reconstructive surgery. He also has significant experience in limb reconstruction after trauma and in deformity and management of orthopaedic infections, complex trauma and patients with multiple injuries. He offers a full range of elective sports knee surgery, hip and knee replacement surgery and also complex trauma surgery on the lower limb.

 

Research interests

 

Alan Norrish has an interest in Medical Ethics and the Law.  He was awarded a Master of Laws (LLM) degree, with distinction, in legal aspects of medical practice from Cardiff University in 2007.He is currently a trustee of 2 national and international medical charities.

 

Current NHS and /or university posts

 

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

 

• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

• Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

• Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

• Member of the British Trauma Society

• Member of the British Association of Surgery for the Knee

• Member of the British Medical Association

• Member of British Association of Orthopaedic Trainees

• Member of World Orthopaedic Concern

• Member of AOTrauma International