I’m responsible for…

Treating patients with disorders of the hip and knee as well as patients with acute injuries such as fractures anywhere in the limbs. I also oversee the education of trainee surgeons. It’s a varied, ever-expanding, rewarding job.

I got the job…

By following my calling. I don’t know if it was because I witnessed a lot of death when I was young or because my mum was a nurse, but apparently, at age seven, I told my father I wanted to be surgeon. I have no idea where it came from.

I studied at University College London. I fancied myself as a cardiologist or a psychiatrist but I always came back to surgery because of my love of anatomy. The first female surgeon I saw was an orthopaedic surgeon, so that contributed to my specialism. I became the first black female orthopaedic surgeon in the UK. I wasn’t aware of this when I was training, so it took a while for the enormity of that to sink in.

How to become an orthopaedic surgeon, by the woman who was first in her field