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Mr Paul H Cooke was educated in Birmingham, then attending Sheffield University - graduating in medicine in 1977.
After teaching anatomy at the University of Bristol, he underwent general Surgery training in Bristol and Plymouth, before returning to Bristol and then Oxford for training in Orthopaedic surgery. After a year at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, he returned to consultant practice in Oxford in 1989.
During training he was awarded the Gary Hampson prize for orthopaedic research, and the Edwin Walker prize of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
He founded and developed the Foot and Ankle Surgery Service at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre which is now a centre of international repute.
He has lead the introduction of many new techniques to the UK working with colleagues from around the country - developing arthroscopy and arthroscopic fusion, bringing modern forefoot techniques from Europe, and teaching and developing techniques of ankle arthroplasty for the last 15 years.
He is known nationally and internationally as a lecturer - with a special interest in the orthopaedic manifestations of neurological disease, and in teaching surgical techniques.
He has served on the council of the British and European Foot and Ankle Surgery Societies, and has been secretary and president of the British Society.
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