Journal of Meningitis
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Fergal Monsell

Royal Hospital for Children

Biography

 Fergal Monsell has been a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol since 2005. He worked in the same capacity at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore between 1997 and 2005.

He completed his higher surgical training at the University of Manchester and fellowship training at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia.

He has a broad based practice with a special interest in limb reconstruction surgery using a spectrum of contemporary techniques. He has considerable experience in the management of patients with the skeletal consequences of septicaemia and contributes to a multi-disciplinary team specifically managing this patient group. He is active in all aspects of paediatric trauma and has published on this subject.

He has an active clinical and basic science research portfolio and received a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2010, defending a thesis that explored the effect of chemotherapy on regenerate bone formation in distraction osteogenesis.

Research Interest

 Amputation; Orthopaedic; Tibia; Ischaemia; Periosteum

Publications

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