Consultant Profile

Mr Andrew Smith MBBS, MSc, FRCS [Tr&Orth]

Practising at: Margate

Specialties: Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hand Surgery

Special clinical interests: Dupuytrens disease including needle fasciotomy, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, hand and wrist arthritis,

Current NHS and /or university posts: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Lead for Trauma & Orthopaedics at QEQM Hospital, Margate

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 1993, Kings College London

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies: Fellow Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Member British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Faculty Hand and Wrist AO[UK]

Background Information

Mr Smith trained in Orthopaedic surgery in South East England, rotating though Guys and St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, Swindon, Brighton, and Hastings. Mr Smith is a fellowship trained hand surgeon, with the Klienert Institue of Hand and Microsurgery, Louisville, USA.

Mr Smith has been a specialist hand surgeon in East Kent since 2006.

Outside of work he enjoys cycling and triathlon including Ironman, Marmotte and Etape events.