Mr Marcus Green is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Arthroscopy Surgeon at The Priory Hospital in Birmingham and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He has a special interest in knee and shoulder pathology. He performs both arthroplasty (joint replacement) and arthroscopy (key hole surgery) on both these areas of the body. Along with Duncan Learmonth and Samir Massoud he was one of the cofounders of the Birmingham Knee and shoulder clinic in 2004, based at the Priory Hospital - a private clinic dedicated to treating patients with problems of the knee and shoulder. He performs between 150 and 200 joint replacements of the knee or shoulder each year including partial knee replacements and shoulder resurfacing. He performs a significant amount of arthroscopic surgery, again of the knee and shoulder, including rotator cuff repairs of the shoulder and ligament reconstruction of the knee.

Mr Green qualified from Birmingham University in 1986 with a first-class Bsc in Pathology and was awarded the faculty of engineering prize for his research into blood flow in sickle cell anaemia. He received his medical degree in 1987 with honours in pathology. Having held house positions in Birmingham he taught anatomy at Bristol University and returned to Birmingham gaining his FRCS in 1991. He was appointed as an orthopaedic registrar on the West Midlands training rotation and subsequently gained his completion of training (FRCS Tr and Orth) in 1998. He was appointed as a lecturer in both, the University of Birmingham and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, before being appointed as a consultant to the two institutions in 1999.

Mr Green’s research has included collaboration with international units such as the National Institutes of Health in the USA. He is the author or co-author of six book chapters and 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has made more than 40 presentations at national and international conferences. In his spare time Mr Green is a keen hot air balloon pilot spending the majority of his time flying competitively; he has represented Great Britain in international championships around the globe both in World and European championships.