Mr Shafic Al-Nammari areas of expertise:
Professional statement
Mr Shafic Al-Nammari is a highly experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in foot and ankle surgery. His areas of expertise include bunions (hallux valgus), hammer toes correction, Achilles tendon disorders, Cartiva, ankle replacement, flat foot correction, and sports injuries. He currently practises at Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital and Gilmour Piper Physiotherapists, both located in Ipswich.
Mr Al-Nammari completed his undergraduate medical training in Edinburgh and was subsequently awarded a scholarship to the University of Oxford in 2012 where he furthered his post-graduate studies and was awarded a distinction for his dissertation. Mr Al-Nammari’s general surgical training was divided between Edinburgh and London. He followed this up with six years on the Royal London Orthopaedic Surgery Training Programme, where he began to specialise in foot and ankle surgery. He has trained at The Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Guy’s & St Thomas’, King’s College, St George’s and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals, to mention a few. Mr Al-Nammari treats all musculoskeletal conditions, both simple to complex, that affect adults with the help of his multi-disciplinary team.
Mr Al-Nammari continues to actively research new methods continually improve foot and ankle surgery, having pioneered many new surgical techniques. He is a scientific reviewer for several surgery focused journals and trains undergraduate and postgraduate trainees from the University of Cambridge and the East of England deanery.
Impressively, Mr Al-Nammari has been awarded highly competitive awards from the European Foot and Ankle Society, the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. These facilitated two further years of advanced fellowship training in foot and ankle surgery at centres of excellent across the UK, Europe and the USA. He is also an expert when it comes to big toe arthritis, deformed toes, as well as heel pain.
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A T. Verified Patient
29/02/2024
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Very professional ,explained everything very clear
M R. Verified Patient
30/01/2024
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Excellent surgeon and literally changed my life by making my Achilles both pain free
R P. Verified Patient
23/08/2022
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Very happy with my consultation
A P. Verified Patient
21/07/2022
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Very good