Mr Paul Nolan MD FRCS (Tr&Orth)

Paul Nolan trained at the Queen’s University of Belfast Medical School, graduating in 1987. After general surgical training he gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1990.

He then spent eighteen months in full-time research studying bone grafting and bone biology, gaining his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in 1992. He published extensively in the British Medical Journal, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and numerous other scientific journals. He presented his work widely in Europe and North America, to both the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Association.

He then spent four years in general orthopaedic training in Belfast completing the Specialist Fellowship Examination in Trauma and Orthopaedics (FRCS Tr&Orth) in 1996 winning the Arthur Edward Burton Memorial Prize for first place in this examination.

He spent one year in Leeds in 1996 to 1997 doing the joint Neurosurgical / Orthopaedic National Spinal Fellowship with Mr Gerald Townes, Neurosurgeon and Professor Robert Dickson, Consultant Spinal Surgeon.

He was appointed Consultant / Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics in February 1999 to the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queens University Belfast. During this period he conducted further research into Adult Trauma again publishing extensively. In addition he supervised undergraduate and post-graduate medical training.

He carried out a further fellowship in Spinal and General Adult Trauma in Sunnybrook Level 1 Trauma Centre in Toronto from 1999 to 2000. During this time he gained extensive exposure to Spinal and General Trauma in a busy North American centre, working with the world renowned Drs Marvin Tile and Dr Joe Schatzker – fathers of the AO system of Orthopaedics. Sunnybrook is also the regional centre in Ontario for Spinal Tumours.

On return he left his university commitments to concentrate on full-time NHS practice.

Paul Nolan is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and on the Editorial Board of Britspine 2008. He is also on the UK register of Medical Expert Witnesses.

His main areas of interest are spinal trauma and tumours, adult low back conditions including disc degeneration, disc prolapse, spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis. He also has an extensive practice in hip replacement surgery performing over one hundred arthroplasties a year.

Paul Nolan is a member of Staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast and The Ulster Independent Clinic. He sees private patients and Medicolegal clients at the Malone Medical Chambers.

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