Sean P. F. Hughes

Sean Patrick Francis Hughes ( born December 2, 1941 in Farnham ( Surrey ), England ) is a British Professor Emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Career

After studying medicine in London, he was, among other things formed at the Middlesex Hospital. He turned to the academic career and worked in research and teaching at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith Hospital in London.

In 1981 he was appointed to the orthopedic department of the University of Edinburgh. Clinically, he worked as an Honorary Consultant at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital. With the physicist Ian McCarthy, the lab technician Stuart Robertson and many colleagues he ran physiological basic research ( bone blood flow, bone infections). He had to degenerative disc disease special clinical interest. He developed an external fixation (Hughes Sukhtian ) for the treatment of open fractures.

In 1991 he was appointed to the Imperial College London School of Medicine. As a clinician, he worked at Charing Cross Hospital, and he led the orthopedic service from Hammersmith Hospital NHS Trust.

With his wife Felicity Hughes, a bacteriologist, he lives in Gloucestershire. Two daughters and a son grow up.

Current appointments

• Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Imperial College London
• Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare Trust
• Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal Navy
• Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Medway Maritime Hospital Trust
• Chairman DISCS Charity

Qualifications

• MB BS - University of London, 1966
• FRCSEd, 1971
• FRCS (England ), 1972
• FRCSI (Ireland ), 1972
• M. S. ( Master of Surgery ), 1976
• FRCSEd ( Orth ), 1984

Academic honors

• Arris and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, 1976
• Seddon Prize, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 1976
• U.K. Travelling Fellow, British Orthopaedic Association, 1977
• A.B.C. Travelling Fellow, British Orthopaedic Association, 1978
• Scandinavian Travelling Fellow, British and Scandinavian Orthopaedic Association, 1986
• Visiting Clinical Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, 1989
• Rahima Dawood Travelling Professor, East African Association of Surgeons, 1992
• Patrick Kelly Visiting Professor, Mayo Clinic, USA, 2000
• Walter Mercer Lecturer, British Orthopaedic Association, 2004

Visiting Professorships

• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• University of Malaya
• Kuwait University
• King Saud University
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Gothenburg

Publications (selection )

• With Dohler JR: Fibrous dysplasia of bone and the Weil- Albright syndrome. International Orthopaedics, 10 (1986 ), pp. 53-62
• With Schoutens A, Arlet J, Gardeniers JWM: Bone Circulation and Vascularization in Normal and Pathological Conditions, (NATO Science Series: A), July 31, 1993
• Richard W. Porter: Textbook of Orthopaedics & Fractures. Hodder Arnold 1997, ISBN 978-0-340-61381-8
• The Cervical Disc, In: Bailliere 's Clinical Orthopaedics - International Practice and Research; Volume 2, Number 2, August 1997
• With Hukkanen MVJ, Polak JM: Nitric Oxide in Bone and Joint ( Postgraduate Medical Science ), 2010