Doctor Gavin Heyes

Consultant trauma and orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon, Foot and Ankle Clinical Lead, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast

Country

United Kingdom

Speciality

Orthopedics

Subspeciality

Ankle surgery

Experience

2008 years

Languages

English

Areas of expertise

Trauma
Foot surgery
Ankle surgery
Revision surgery
Arthroscopy and Tenoscopy

About the expert

Doctor Heyes is a consultant trauma and orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon and clinical lead at Royal Victoria Hospital and Musgrave Park Hospital at Belfast - Northern Ireland. Has major expertise in the field of trauma and complex surgery for the foot, ankle, and lower limb trauma. He also specializes in minimally invasive techniques to treat tendon and joint injuries without major surgery. Doctor Heyes is very active in the research with high publication output in reputable journals.

Doctor Heyes is a consultant trauma and orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon and clinical lead at Royal Victoria Hospital and Musgrave Park Hospital at Belfast - Northern Ireland.

He specialises as a foot and ankle surgeon, treating all disorders of the foot and ankle including deformity correction, heel pain, foot and ankle arthritis, metatarsalgia, bunions, flat feet and ligament injuries. He has a particular interest in foot and ankle trauma and sporting injuries (treating both professional and recreational sportspeople) offering both open, selective minimally invasive surgery and arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery.

Doctor Heyes is widely published in trauma and foot and ankle surgery. This includes some seminal work in the field and has led to multiple invitational review articles. He has presented at many national and international meetings and has been invited to lecture both nationally and internationally, teaching allied health professionals, junior doctors and other Orthopaedic surgeons.

He has written book chapters in the field of foot and ankle surgery and FRCS questions for reference books to aid examination revision for the generation of orthopaedic consultants. He is a Royal College of Surgeons England surgical tutor and a member of faculty on the Basic Surgical Skills course.

Substantive Consultant trauma and Orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon
2022 - Today
Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast
Foot and Ankle Clinical Lead
2022 - Today
Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast
Substantive consultant trauma and orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon
2019 - 2022
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
Locum consultant trauma and orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon
2019 - 2019
Aintree University Hospital Foundation trust, Liverpool

British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Fellowship

Aintree University Hospital Foundation trust, Liverpool

2019
Certificate of Completion of specialized surgical training

2018
Fellowship

Royal College of Surgeons - Edunburgh

2017
Masters in Trrauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

University of Salford

2014
Membership

Royal College of Surgeons - Edunburgh

2011
Externship in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

Harvard University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Summer

2007
MB BCH BAO

Queens University Belfast

2008

Orthopaedic Trauma Society
British Medical Association
Irish Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society
British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society
Medical Protection Society
General Medical Council

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