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Specialises in

• Hand surgery

• Paediatric

• Reconstructive surgery

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Mr Murphy is a Consultant Hand and Plastic Surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation trust, and a locum Consultant Congenital Hand Surgeon at Great Ormond St Hospital.

He attended medical school at Cambridge, then Bart's and the London, where he was awarded the Sutton Prize and a Rahere Studentship. He did junior medical training in London and Oxford, then was awarded his national training number on the prestigious Oxford plastic surgery rotation. He completed a PhD in congenital hand surgery at Great Ormond St, securing over �100,000 of funding, then passed the FRCS Plast end of training exam and completed his training in February 2022. He undertook fellowships in hand surgery at Chelsea & Westminster hospital and Great Ormond St, before starting his consultant career at St Thomas. He also holds the British Diploma in Hand Surgery.

Mr Murphy was awarded a Hunterian Professorship for his PhD research by the Royal College of Surgeons in 2023. He has published widely and presented at international meetings in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, as well as regularly across Europe. He co-directs the St Thomas' advanced cadaveric hand course, and is departmental lead for research.

Outside of work, he enjoys singing, cycling and spending time with his family.

Areas of interest

Hand trauma; hand tendon injuries; hand ligament injuries; soft tissue infections; skin grafts; hand fractures; percutaneous & minimal access fracture treatment; Carpal Tunnel; cubital tunnel; peripheral nerve surgery; nerve transfers; tendon transfers; needle fasciotomy; Dupuytren's fasciectomy; dermofasciectomy; ganglion cysts; Paediatric hand surgery; syndactyly; accessory digits; duplicate thumbs; hypoplastic thumbs; radial dysplasia; ulna dysplasia; cleft hand; symbrachydactyly; vascular anomalies; amniotic band syndrome; camptodactyly; clinodactyly; Skin surgery; Lumps & bumps; Skin cancers; basal cell cancers; squamous cell cancers; malignant melanoma; sentinel lymph node biopsy; pre-malignant conditions such as Bowen's disease & actinic keratoses; Benign skin lesions such as moles; sebaceous cysts; lipomas; seborrheic keratoses; and warts; Abdominoplasty; abdominal wall reconstruction; thigh lift; arm lift / brachioplasty; pinnaplasty; cosmetic surgery; Reconstructive surgery.

Medical secretaries

• Shorouq Gamal
• 5 Devonshire Place London W1G 6HL
• 020 7046 2829
• murphy.admin@lips.org.uk