Mr Mark Gaston

Mr Mark Gaston was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon in NHS Lothian in 2011. Mr Gaston’s clinical practice incorporates all aspect of orthopaedics and trauma, both upper (arms) and lower limb (legs), for children and adolescents (paediatric orthopaedics). His NHS practice is based at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh (Sick Kids), where he is the most senior consultant and runs specialist multi-disciplinary clinics. There he provides a tertiary/national referral service for several complex orthopaedic conditions including paediatric knee and neuromuscular. 

Mr Gaston has expertise in knee, foot and ankle surgery in young adults as well as children. In private practice, he regularly assesses and treats condition of the knee, foot and ankle and performs surgery regularly for the breadth of these sub-specialities. This includes a high volume of minimally invasive surgery (arthroscopy), including ligament reconstruction (e.g. ACL) in children and young adults. He also has specialist expertise in the treatment of the orthopaedic manifestations of neuromuscular conditions (muscle and nerve diseases such as cerebral palsy). This includes gait improvement surgery (including complex osteotomy procedures) for the improvement of walking disorders and hip reconstruction surgery.

Mr Gaston graduated from Cambridge University in 1999. He completed basic surgical training in Edinburgh followed by specialist orthopaedic training as Clinical Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. He undertook one years of specialist orthopaedic fellowship training in Basel, Switzerland and one year senior fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics at RHSC, Glasgow. 

Mr Gaston completed a PhD during orthopaedic training during which he was awarded several research grants. He has continued a strong academic interest with in excess of 60 papers published in peer reviewed journals as well as invited articles and provision of peer review for 3 respected orthopaedic journals and NIHR. He currently leads on a Scottish national programme of surveillance for children with cerebral palsy (CPIPS) and is a member of several national committees.

Please note, Mr Gaston does not perform joint replacement surgery.

You can find out more about Mr Gaston here. 

• Assessment of children and adolescents for orthopaedic conditions of upper and lower limb
• Common knee, foot and ankle conditions
• Osteochondritis dissecans
• ACL reconstruction
• Repair / removal of torn cartilage (meniscus)
• Discoid meniscus
• Sports injuries
• Removal of loose bodies
• Ligament injuries
• Kneecap dislocation
• Foot, ankle and toe deformity surgery (including bunion correction)
• Ankle arthroscopy
• Assessment and treatment of painful knee, foot and ankle conditions

• General Medical Council
• British Medical Association
• The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery
• Foot and Ankle Society, Scotland