Specialist Foot and Ankle Surgery and Consultation in Manchester

Meet the Expert

MR ANAND PILLAI – MS, MRCS, FRCS (T&O), FICS, PG Dip Med ED

Mr Anand Pillai is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with University Hospitals Manchester, Wythenshaw. He trained in Orthopaedic and Foot surgery, and has undertaken sub-specialist fellowships in Adelaide, South Australia and Oxford. Anand has also visited and worked with surgeons from SportsMed SA, Mater Hospital Sydney and Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth, and has completed a fellowship in Ilizarov techniques and limb deformity correction at the world renowned Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center. He was initially appointed as Consultant to Ninewells University Hospital and Dundee Medical School in Scotland, before moving to the North West.   

Mr Pillai is a member of both the British and American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Societies, AO Trauma UK, Foot & Ankle Scotland and The Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society. He holds honorary academic positions with the Universities of Adelaide, Manchester, Salford, and Malaya. Mr Pillai is an editor for several prominent medical publications and also sits on the editorial board for the ANZ Journal of Surgery and the American Medical Journal. He is also a surgical examiner for University of Salford and Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. In 2015, Mr Pillai was elected to the research committee of the European Foot & Ankle Society and has treated many prominent athletes.

Mr Pillai has been awarded an honorary visiting professorship in orthopaedics by RAKMHSU.