Cameron Hatrick

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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 Orthopaedic rotation.

He undertook two fellowships in Sydney, Australia, sub-specialising in shoulder and hand surgery.

The first fellowship was with Professor Michael Tonkin in the Department of Hand Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital. The second fellowship was with Professor David Sonnabend in the Department of Orthopaedics, Prince of Wales Hospital and also with Professor William Walsh in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories in the same hospital.

In November 1999 he was awarded the Walter Mercer Gold Medal and the Arthur Edward Burton Memorial Prize for his performance in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Orthopaedic Surgery. The following year he was nominated as the British Orthopaedic Association ‘Young Ambassador’ to the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association at their annual congress.

In 2001 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, now the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. He was the lead orthopaedic surgeon for the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre from its opening in June 2006 until September 2009. From September 2009 until February 2013 he was the lead orthopaedic consultant for BSUH NHS Trust. From November 2014 until June 2023 he was the Medical Director of the Montefiore Hospital in Hove and then Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee until November 2023.



In 2016 he was appointed to the Council of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) for two years and was a member of the BESS Instructional Course committee until 2025 when Brighton hosted the annual BESS conference. He has been an examiner for the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations for the final FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam since 2016.

His practice covers the full range of arthroscopic and open shoulder surgery, including arthroscopic subacromial decompression (ASAD), arthroscopic and open shoulder stabilisation, SLAP repair, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and anatomic and reverse shoulder replacement.

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 Orthopaedic Rotation. He has set up and run an annual open surgical skills course 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. He is a member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS).

Cameron is married with three (grown up) children and enjoys mountain biking, cycling, playing tennis (unfortunately being beaten by his son!), skiing (preferably in unusual places), hiking on the Downs/ in the Lakes/ Snowdonia, sailing and windsurfing (fair-weather only nowadays!).