Professor Anand Pillai

Professor Anand PillaiConsultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle and Reconstruction SurgeonClinical Chair Manchester Academic Health Science CenterFaculty of Biology, Medicine & Health

Professor Pillai is Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with University Hospitals Manchester, Wythenshaw with a specialist interest in Foot & Ankle Surgery. He trained in Orthopaedic and Foot surgery in the West of Scotland, and has undertaken further sub-specialist fellowships in Adelaide, South Australia and Oxford. Mr Pillai has also visited and worked with surgeons from SportsMed SA, Mater Hospital Sydney and Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth. Furthermore, Mr Pillai has completed a fellowship in Ilizarov techniques and limb deformity correction at the world renowned Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center in Kurgan, Siberia. He was initially appointed as Consultant to Ninewells University Hospital and Dundee Medical School in Scotland, before moving to the North West.

Mr Pillai is a member of both the British and American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Societies, AO Trauma UK, Foot & Ankle Scotland and The Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society. He holds honorary academic positions with the Universities of Adelaide , Manchester, Salford and Malaya . He is executive editor for Orthopaedics & Muscular Systems - Current Research and assistant editor for SurgWiki. He also sits on the editorial board for the ANZ Journal of Surgery and the American Medical Journal. He has published and presented widely in numerous national and international meetings. He is a surgical examiner for University of Salford and Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.