Our Consultants - Mr Stephen Lipscombe

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Overview/Background:

Stephen is an Orthopaedic Upper limb surgeon with a specialist interest in hand and wrist surgery. He trained and worked within the Mersey deanery having merited an Honours degree at Liverpool Medical School. He has a strong academic background having completed a First class degree in Physiology at Liverpool University where he studied calcium signalling in pancreatic acinar cells. The majority of his Orthopaedic surgical experience involves Upper limb surgery, having finalised his training with one of the few nationally recognised Advanced Training post fellowships in Hand/wrist surgery. He successfully completed the British Diploma in Hand surgery during this fellowship. His NHS practise is based at Whiston hospital having been appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon in 2014. He is the Training lead for the Mersey Deanery Hand and Wrist teaching programme and secretary for the Mersey Hand Group. He participates every year as a trainer on numerous courses including cadaveric hand courses at Wrightington and Surgical Art Hand trauma courses in Liverpool. He completes regularly publications in hand surgical journals covering surgical techniques and review articles.

Qualifications:

• BSc Physiology
• MBCh
• FRCS (Tr and Orthopaedics)
• Diploma Hand Surgery

Professional Membership:

• British Orthopaedic Association
• British Medical Association
• British Society for Surgery of the Hand
• Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England