Professor Chris Lavy
OBE MD MCh FCS FRCS
Chris Lavy is an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford and holds honorary professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He won an entrance scholarship to university and was an undergraduate at University College London and St Bartholomew's Medical School reading anthropology then medicine. He declared an early interest in Africa by cycling there in 1984 after house jobs, then pursued postgraduate training first as a GP, then in orthopaedics in Oxford, Norwich, Cambridge, Bath, Cape Town, London and Paris.
He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital and the Middlesex hospitals in 1992 and had a private practice in the West End of London. He left London in 1996 to work with the Christian Mission CBM International to set up orthopaedic services in Malawi. There he was appointed professor at the new medical school and worked closely with Cure International to build a children's orthopaedic hospital.
He was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2002 and is an advisor in othopaedics to many organisations including the WHO. He was involved with setting up orthopaedic training in the East and Central region of Africa and received the OBE for this in 2007.
His clinical interests include surgery of the spine hip and knee, and his research interests are focused around Africa and the Tropics. He is currently involved in setting up an orthopaedic hospital in Niger. He has three sons who like him support Chelsea. He speaks regularly at medical and Christian conferences and meetings. He is also interested in drawing, and, when no one is listening, plays the piano and cello.