Miss Avis Ashbrooke MBBS, FRCS(Ed)

Avis Ashbrooke was born and educated in Newcastle Staffordshire. She trained at King’s College London and then King’s College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1980. Her orthopaedic training was on the St George’s Orthopaedic rotation as a registrar and the Charing Cross rotation as a senior registrar. She also spent eight months at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead (plastic surgery unit) and three months on a trauma fellowship in Germany.

She was appointed as the first female orthopaedic consultant at Frimley Park Hospital in 1993.  Her special interest is hand and upper limb surgery.  She is a member of the British Society of Surgery of the Hand and a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association.

She is married, with two dogs, Carter and Murray.

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