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Mr Tom Quick is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon appointed as honorary Consultant at both Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and the Evelina Children's Hospital in London, providing consultancy to Headley Court, the Defence Medical Rehab Centre, Surrey in the Nerve Injuries of war clinic for 4 years. Mr Quick is also an Honorary Associate Professor in the Institute of Musculoskeletal Science (UCL) and was previously the Head of Undergraduate Education in the Division of Surgery for the UCL Medical School from 2014-2018.

Mr Quick was educated at Manchester Grammar School, accepted at Magdalene College Cambridge and graduated in Art History with his MB exemptions before moving on to UCL Hospitals to complete his undergraduate medical training. After completing basic surgical training in London and Sydney, he completed his Orthopaedic training on the Bristol rotation, gaining the highest mark in a rotational FRCS mock examination with formal recognition from his Director of Studies. Subsequently Mr Quick was awarded a twelve-month Paediatric Orthopaedic fellowship at The Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, working in a clinical and basic science capacity, in both general Paediatric Orthopaedics and upper limb Paediatric Surgery. Mr Quick then completed eighteen months of post-FRCS fellowship at the famous Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore and was later appointed as a Consultant Surgeon at RNOH in April 2013.

Mr Quick's thesis on the ‘Assessment of renervated muscle function‘ was successfully defended in 2018, earning him a Doctorate (MD(res) at UCL.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Orthopaedic reconstruction
• Peripheral nerve treatment of spasticity
• Co-contraction therapy
• Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy pathology and treatment (Erb's palsy)
• Peripheral Nerve Injury
• Orthopaedic reconstruction
• Birth Brachial Plexus Palsy (BBPP or Erb's palsy)
• Traumatic nerve injury
• Nerve injury and development in the growing shoulder
• Ddult brachial plexus injury
• Paediatric and adolescent neurologic shoulder pathology