Mr Barry Shaun O'Brien

Mr O'Brien is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

An Orthopaedic Surgeon operates on bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles and nerves.

He has worked at Sunderland Royal Hospital since 2001. He specialises in knee surgery. He has performed over 8,000 knee arthroscopies (camera in the knee), 5,000 knee replacements and 1,500 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions.

Mr O'Brien's main interest is soft tissue knee reconstruction in young sports patients, minimally invasive surgery and joint preservation surgery for arthritis and complex knee revision (re-do) surgery. 

His GMC number is 3441190.

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