About
Surgeon. Barrister.
Dr Anthony Howard. Consultant elbow and shoulder surgeon at Salford Royal Major Trauma Centre, and a barrister at Nine Chambers, Manchester.
My story
I came to medicine from the law. At 30, I went back to university to study medicine.
I was called to the Bar in 1992 and have practised from Nine Chambers, Manchester, ever since. Orthopaedic and medical evidence sat at the centre of my cases, and a fascination with orthopaedics grew from there. I qualified in medicine at the University of Manchester in 2010.
I trained in trauma and orthopaedics at Leeds General Infirmary, a major trauma centre, then completed upper limb fellowships in Cape Town and at Wrightington. I am now a consultant elbow and shoulder surgeon at Salford Royal Major Trauma Centre.
The law came first, and it shapes every report I write. As counsel and as a coroner, I have spent years reading, testing and relying on expert opinion. I know what the court needs from it.
Career
Clinical
Consultant Orthopaedic Elbow and Shoulder Surgeon, Salford Royal Major Trauma Centre, Northern Care Alliance
Senior Lecturer, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Unit, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town
Upper Limb Fellow, Wrightington Hospital
Upper Limb Fellow, Groote Schuur and Tygerberg Hospitals, Cape Town
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, then Academic Clinical Lecturer, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Leeds General Infirmary
Legal
Barrister, Nine Chambers, Manchester. My practice now centres on regulatory and professional disciplinary work, and inquests
Assistant Coroner, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Assistant Deputy Coroner, Preston and West Lancashire
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons), Lancaster
- Barrister-at-Law, Inns of Court School of Law
- MB ChB, Manchester
- MSc Orthopaedic Engineering, Cardiff
- PGCert Medical Education, Dundee
- PhD, Liverpool (shoulder instability)
- FRCSEd (Tr & Orth)
Medico-legal teaching
Faculty member, British Orthopaedic Association Law for Orthopaedic Surgeons course. Co-editor, Expert Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic Evidence (Cambridge University Press, expected December 2026). Lectures to solicitors on the Manchester Metropolitan University postgraduate course.
Research
41 peer-reviewed journal articles, mainly in trauma and upper limb surgery. Member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society Research Committee and the Global Elbow Network Research Committee. See publications
Registration
General Medical Council, no. 7074201. Barrister, Bar Standards Board register.