Mr Michael Butler
Mike qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1996, having attended Cambridge University for his undergraduate studies. After junior doctor jobs, he attended Keogh Barracks and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to complete Officer Training and then undertook 2 years as a Regimental Medical Officer to an infantry regiment
After basic surgical training, he undertook further specialist training at the world-renowned Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol (including trauma surgery at Frenchay Hospital) and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He has been an Orthopaedic Consultant on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council since August 2009.
Mike retired from the British Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in October 2018 but retained his substantive consultant appointment at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and at St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle and continues to see servicemen and servicewomen as well as Armed Forces veterans.
He has full admitting rights at the Duchy Hospital where he consults and operates on private patients.
Mike treats a wide variety of patients for complex problems of the foot and ankle- from high intensity athletes and servicemen and women to the difficult problems in later life of tendon dysfunction and arthritis of the knee and foot and ankle. He uses the most modern techniques in foot and ankle surgery.
Mike is an avid rugby supporter and is very proud to be a member of the medical team of the Cornish Pirates, working as a pitch side doctor at home and away games as well as providing assessment, advice and surgery at the Royal Cornwall and Duchy Hospital when necessary.
He is heavily involved in teaching the surgical trainees within the region and has been a previous Training Programme Director for the Pensinsula Deanery as well as a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Trauma and Orthopaedics and has a strong interest in research, publishing and presenting at national and international meeting.
Mike is a current examiner for the FRCS(Trauma and Orthopaedics) assessing the next generation of consultants in Trauma and Orthopaedics.