Mr Mark Latimer

Mr Mark Latimer, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon


Honorary Senior Lecturer
MBBChir (Cantab), MA (Oxon), MEng (Oxon)
MRCS (Ed), MRCS (Eng), FRCS (Tr & Orth)


Mr Latimer works as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at both Addenbrookes Hospital and at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals. He has a specialist interest in children’s orthopaedics, adult lower limb surgery and trauma surgery.

Before studying medicine he graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Engineering Economics and Management. He performed Engineering research for both ICI and Monsanto as an intern before going on to complete a fourth year Masters in Engineering at Oxford.

He subsequently studied Pre-Clinical Medicine at Oxford University and Clinical Medicine at Cambridge University. He was awarded the degree of MBBChir in December 1997.

He joined the East Anglian Orthopaedic Rotation in 2002. This included 2 years of dedicated lower limb surgery in Cambridge.

He passed his FRCS (Tr & Orth) exams in 2007 and was selected for the prestigious Ingham Fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery in Sydney. He spent a little over a year in Sydney. The fellowship included a comprehensive training in all aspects of children’s orthopaedic and trauma surgery as well as an opportunity to work in the Kerry Packer Research Institute with Professor David Little.

He has published academic papers in numerous fields including cardiology, anaesthesia, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and of course orthopaedics!

His medicolegal practice includes all aspects of orthopaedics including medical negligence and non-accidental injury. He has completed over 50 specialist reports and has appeared in court on several occasions.

Past and present posts include:

• Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Leicester
• Medical Examiner at both Cambridge and Leicester Medical Schools
• Advisor to the Home Office
• Clinical Tutor in Orthopaedics
• Clinical Tutor in Medicine at Newnham, St Johns and Kings Colleges, Cambridge
• Chair of the East of England Children’s Surgery Forum

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