Mr Amit Atrey

Amit Atrey is an orthopaedic consultant who practices at the BMI hospital in Bury St Edmunds and the Nuffield Hospital in Cambridge.

You can can contact his secretary Mrs Joan Bryant on 07936 030482  or email her on [email protected] to arrange an appointment or even a free initial phone consultation.

Medical Training

Amit trained at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Medical School, London and qualified in 2000. After Basic Surgical training he obtained his Masters degree from Imperial College, London. Soon after he started he completed his Specialist Orthopaedic training in the South East Thames region. He joined as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in year 4 of training allowing him to concentrate on hip and knee surgery from then on.

Fellowship & Specialist Training

Trauma

In 2011, Amit did a fellowship in Hamburg, Germany where he learned to deal with complex injuries including pelvic trauma.

Hip & Knee

Toronto: Amit spent a year working with world famous hip and knee surgeons, Professors Waddell & Schemitsch. Here he did a high number of complex primary and revision (redo) joint replacements. He furthered his research interests and continues to have strong research links with the university and hospital in Canada. He performed more than 700 cases in this year abroad.

Warwick: Upon returning to the UK, Amit spent another year fine tuning his Techniques. Working with Mr  Steve Young, he was taught Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements and also the importance of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery.

Consultant Posts

Amit spent over a year as a locum consultant in Cheltenham & Gloucester in 2013, before being appointed a Substantive NHS consultant in Bury St Edmunds in 2015.

Awards/ Grants

• EFORT/ Bone & Joint Journal travelling fellowship award; 2013 to Scandinavia.
• orthoconsent.com; Amit won an award and grant to set up this orthopaedic website initially set up for the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA). This project which houses procedure specific consent forms is still used by over 20 NHS trusts as the sole consenting process. It was Amit’s idea and he saw it through to the end.
• DePuy travelling fellow award – 2012
• Trainer of the year – Severn Deanery
• Smith & Nephew grants for 2 major research projects, 2014 and 2015 (over $20,000)
• Hardwick research project 2008
• Shortlisted for Fred Heatley Prise 3 times

Research

Amit maintains a strong interest in research. He is currently the research lead for the West Suffolk Hospital.

He has over 25 published articles in peer reviewed journals with more in submission and progress.

A list of his publications can be seen on this link

His main focus of research is hip and knee surgery.

Teaching

Teaching is an important part of the orthopaedic consultant role. Amit won trainer of the year in 2014 for the South West Deanery. He set up and ran a weekly FRCS club for the registrars and has taught on FRCS preparation courses amongst others

If you decide to have an operation privately with Amit, you will be operated on by him only.

Interests

Amit is married with two young children. Most of his spare time is taken up running after them however, he still enjoys fitness.

He was a keen rugby player and represented Lancashire and the North of England competitive matches. He has also played for the Oxford University Rugby team and the Royal College of Surgeons.