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Paul Fenton

After undergraduate training in Edinburgh, I completed Orthopaedic training in Birmingham. followed by specialist fellowship training in Limb Reconstruction Surgery in Bristol and Foot and Ankle Surgery in Sheffield as well as an AO Trauma fellowship in Tampa, Florida. Since 2015 I have worked as an Orthopaedic Trauma Consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital which serves as the major trauma centre for Birmingham and the surrounding region. I am part of the the limb reconstruction and orthoplastic teams, receiving tertiary referrals from across the region.

I specialise in complex lower limb trauma including periarticular fractures, foot and ankle trauma, orthoplastic injuries and post-traumatic limb reconstruction. A significant proportion of my practice involves the use of circular fixators for both acute and delayed trauma reconstruction, non-union, malunion and bone infection.

I provide orthopaedic input for the Amputation clinic at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and BAC and have extensive experience of both primary and revision amputations. I have been involved in the Osseointegration service for veterans in Birmingham since the start of the project in 2016.

Holly King

Holly King is a Chartered Physiotherapist with twenty years of experience. With a background in sports medicine, Holly specialises in the field of complex trauma and amputee rehabilitation. She is able to apply her knowledge and expertise in biomechanical, movement patterning and walking gait analysis to provide functional and dynamic rehabilitation, teaching normal and prosthetic movement skills.

Holly has post graduate qualifications and experience in pain management, acupuncture, manual therapy, and exercise therapy. She has developed a special interest in pain management, particularly phantom limb pain and residual limb pain and has also published an academic paper on the use of electroacupuncture to alleviate phantom limb pain.

Alongside the BAC team, Holly strives to treat the source of a patient’s pain, improving their quality of life and rehabilitation journey. Holly consults for the BAC team on pre-and post-operative care, ensuring that patients maximise their recovery and outcomes. Following a varied career in the military, working at Healey Court and at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, and in a sports medicine clinic, Ocean Physio and Rehab, Holly has treated elite and Paralympic athletes and complex trauma.

Holly is registered with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Health and Care Professional Council and British Medical Acupuncture Society.

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Alan McDougall

Alan is a highly skilled Prosthetist who joined ProActive in 2018 following 12 years of clinical experience in the field of prosthetics. Alan loves technology and has been involved in many innovative projects including new designs for trans-femoral sockets and the development of microprocessor-controlled prosthetic components that we can see in the marketplace today. These include the Elan foot and the Linx limb system.

During his time with Ottobock as an Academy Clinician, his role included training qualified prosthetists in the use of the latest state of the art prosthetic components including the Genium and X3 knees, Empower foot and the Michelangelo bionic arm. Alan’s passion in prosthetics is patient care and socket technology, which combined with his technical knowledge and skills, ensures his patients receive the best possible outcomes.

amputee getting help with a prosthetic arm

Michael Parry

Michael Parry is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham specialising in orthopaedic oncology and primary and revision lower limb arthroplasty. He has a specialist interest in paediatric and adult orthopaedic oncology, and in the management of tumours arising from the pelvic bones.

Michael undertook his undergraduate medical training at the University of Bristol qualifying in 2001. He continued his training in Oxford and the Southeast before returning to Bristol to complete his higher surgical training. He completed his Doctorate in Medicine in 2012 and was previously appointed as an NIHR clinical lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Bristol. He has completed fellowship training in lower limb reconstruction and oncology in Vancouver and orthopaedic oncology in Birmingham. Michael has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham since 2014 and previously was the Clinical Service Lead for Orthopaedic Oncology at the trust. He is currently chair of the West Midlands Expert Advisory Group for sarcoma.

Michael’s specialist interests are in orthopaedic oncology and lower limb arthroplasty, with a particular interest in improving outcomes for patients who need amputations to treat cancer or to eradicate the complications of previous surgery, including trauma and joint replacements. Michael has published extensively in these fields and has continued to develop his research interests in both oncology and arthroplasty. He regularly presents at national and international conferences and is a reviewer for a number of renowned orthopaedic journals.



Deborah Foong

Deborah Foong is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. She specialises in soft tissue reconstruction following cancer treatment and trauma.

In her NHS practice, she is the principal plastic surgical reconstructive surgeon at the Birmingham Sarcoma Unit, and manages complex extremity trauma at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She has a specialist interest in amputee surgery, regularly performing revision of amputation stumps and neuroma surgery including targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) and regenerative peripheral nerve interface (RPNI) surgery. She forms part of the team performing osseointegration surgery for British Veterans at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham.

Deborah completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Nottingham, qualifying in 2003. She trained in the West Midlands and Manchester before completing her Higher Surgical Training in Nottingham. In 2017, she had conferred upon her the Specialty Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, FRCS (Plast)). Prior to her appointment as a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon, she completed fellowships in Microsurgical Reconstruction in Nottingham, and in Hand Surgery at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby.

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