Qualifications: MA MB Bchir FRCS(Tr & Orth)

Clinical interests:

All aspects of arthroscopic (key hole) shoulder surgery including
subacromial decompression (ASAD), rotator cuff repair, arthroscopic stabilisation and release for frozen shoulder. Total shoulder replacement (anatomical and reverse) and revision shoulder replacement. Fixation of shoulder and clavicle fractures and ACJ dislocations. Tennis elbow

Professional Profile:

Cameron Hatrick trained at Clare College, Cambridge and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London qualifying in 1990. He underwent Basic Surgical Training on the St Bartholomew’s rotation, London and then specialised in Orthopaedics on the South East Thames (SET) Orthopaedic rotation.

He was awarded the Walter Mercer Gold Medal and Arthur Edward Burton Memorial Prize for his performance in the final FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam in 1999. The following year he was appointed as the British Orthopaedic Association ‘Young Ambassador’ to the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association at their annual congress.

In 2000 he spent a year on Fellowship in Sydney, Australia sub-specialising in shoulder and hand surgery before taking up his post as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2001.

He has developed a successful multi-disciplinary, ‘one-stop’ shoulder clinic based in Lewes Victoria Hospital. He undertakes all aspects of shoulder surgery including arthroscopic procedures, fracture fixation and primary and revision joint replacement.
From 2009-2013 he was the Lead Orthopaedic Surgeon for BSUH NHS Trust. Since 2014 he has been the Medical Director of the Montefiore Hospital in Hove. He served on BESS council from 2016-2018 and is currently a member of the BESS Instructional Course Committee. He has been an examiner for the combined Royal Colleges’ FRCS (Tr & Orth) exit exam since 2017.

Teaching and Training is a particular interest of his. He is a faculty member of the Watanabe Club, which runs regular shoulder arthroscopy courses around the UK introducing surgeons to arthroscopic shoulder surgery and teaching advanced techniques to established surgeons. He has lectured at international meetings and lectures regularly at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and on the South East Thames (SET) Orthopaedic Rotation. He has set up and run an open surgical skills course for the SET rotation and, in 2005, he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Brighton University Faculty of Health in recognition of his contribution to post-graduate teaching.

Personal Profile

Mr Hatrick is married with three children (two of whom are now doctors) and enjoys playing tennis (unfortunately being beaten by his son!), dad’s football, skiing (preferably in unusual places), hiking on the Downs / in the Lakes / Snowdonia, sailing and windsurfing (fair-weather only nowadays!).