Consultant Profile

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

Practising at: Canterbury and Margate

Specialties: Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Hand Surgery

Special clinical interests:
Dupuytrens disease including needle fasciotomy, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, hand and wrist arthritis including thumb base joint replacement, finger joint and wrist replacement.

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

Entered independent practice 2024.

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

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 spending time with his family. He also enjoys cycling and triathlon including Ironman, Marmotte and Etape events.