Professor Hamish Simpson is Professor of Orthopaedics & Trauma Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (George Harrison Law Chair of Orthopaedics at the University of Edinburgh) and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, specialising in limb reconstruction, musculoskeletal infection and paediatric deformity. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. He carried out his surgical training in Oxford, Bath and Gloucester. Prior to his current appointment, he was Professor of Orthopaedics in Oxford and Fellow of St Peter's college, Oxford.