Join Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Gregory Firth, in an update on hip & knee conditions in children.

Mr Gregory Firth

Specialties: Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, Paediatric

Clinical Interests: General paediatric orthopaedics; Deformity; Clubfoot; Developmental dysplasia of the hip; Slipped capital femoral epiphysis; Perthes Disease; Blount Disease; Paediatric fractures

Biography: Mr Gregory Firth is an orthopaedic consultant at The Royal London Hospital in East London, having been appointed to the role in 2020 as a substantive consultant, working in the same role as a locum consultant beforehand from March 2018. He is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon, dedicated to the treatment of children with both elective pathologies and trauma related injuries. The Royal London Hospital is a busy major trauma centre within Central London. Mr Firth qualified as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in South Africa in 2009 and did two international fellowships in paediatric orthopaedics in Canada and Australia in 2010 and 2011 respectively. He completed his CESR equivalence in trauma and orthopaedics in the UK in 2020. Between 2011 and 2018 Mr Firth was head of the paediatric orthopaedic unit at Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa, the 3rd largest hospital in the world – he developed and expanded the service. HIs current practice includes the treatment of children with general paediatric orthopaedic conditions, both elective and traumatic.

NHS Base: Barts Health NHS Trust

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