Each of the four specialists at the Surrey Foot and Ankle Clinic is a fully qualified doctor and orthopaedic surgeon (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons). We have specially trained to apply these skills to care of the foot and ankle and this represents practically all of our non-emergency work. From medical school to consultant practice, this training takes ten to twelve years. Since we specialise in the same discipline, we can support each other’s work and share our expertise, much to the advantage of our patients.
Our busy NHS practices involve foot and ankle orthopaedic surgical care plus treatment of injuries and fractures via the hospitals’ 24 hour on-call rotas. Orthopaedic surgeons, unlike non-medically qualified podiatric surgeons, are fully qualified trauma surgeons so we have generic skills and experience in treatment of injuries to all the body’s bones and joints. This greatly enhances our ability to deal with difficult non-injury cases. Many medical conditions can manifest first in the foot. A good understanding of any patient’s general health is, in our view, so important that the clinician in charge of surgery to the bones, joints and tendons of the foot should be a qualified doctor.
All of the consultants in our Clinic are active in developing and teaching orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery. We regularly attend both national and international conferences, contributing directly to many. Our patients benefit from the very latest thinking and recognised techniques.
MR ANTHONY SAKELLARIOU
Anthony Sakellariou qualified in medicine at University College London in 1987. He trained in surgery in London and Winchester becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS England) in 1992. He then went on to specialize in orthopaedic surgery in and around London, gaining the FRCS (Orth) in 1996 and the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in 1999. His subspecialty training in foot and ankle surgery was done in North America where he spent a year, split between Vancouver, Canada and the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Arizona. On completion of that training he was awarded the Certificate of Completion of Advanced Foot and Ankle Training, by the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
Anthony teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of foot and ankle surgery. He is on the Education Committee of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society and an associate editor of the journal, ‘Foot and Ankle International’. He has worked as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital since 1999, with a special interest in surgery of the foot and ankle.