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Prof. Seamus Morris - Spinal Surgeon
Professor Seamus Morris, MB BCh BAO MMedSci MCh FSEM AFRCSI FRCS (Tr & Orth).
Prof. Seamus Morris is a consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon working in the National Spinal Injuries Unit, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh and the National Rehabilitation Hospital and Clinical Professor of Surgery in UCD’s School of Medicine. Surgery
He specialises in spinal surgery and complex trauma. Prof. Morris graduated from UCD in 1995, before completing his basic and higher surgical training in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
He completed a fellowship in spine and scoliosis surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery - Weill Cornell University New York in 2006, before completing further specialised training in complex trauma reconstruction in St George’s Hospital, London, UK. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 2007 and took up his current post at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2013.
He has served as Director of the National Spinal Injuries Unit, and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Mater Hospital from 2013 – 2017, and Clinical Secretary of the Irish Institute of Orthopaedic Surgery. He has served as regional director of higher surgical training in orthopaedic and trauma surgery and is Clinical Professor of Surgery in UCD.
He has served on numerous course faculties for spine and trauma surgery, and presented and published numerous national and international clinical papers on spine and trauma surgery in addition to a number of patents. He is a member of the Irish Spine Society, North American Spine Society, Eurospine and AO Spine.
His major sub-specialty interests in spine surgery are degenerative spine surgery utilising minimally invasive techniques including lumbar and cervical microdiscectomy, pain management interventions, osteoporotic spine fractures, deformity correction and tumour surgery.
Career History
Internship, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin 7: 1995 – 1996
Western Region Basic Surgical Training Program: 1996 -1998
Orthopaedic Registrar, Dublin: 1998 – 2000
Irish Orthopaedic Higher Surgical Training Program in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery: 2000 – 2005
Fellow in Spine and Scoliosis Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery / Cornell University, New York, USA: 2005 – 2006
Complex Trauma Surgery, St Georges Hospital, London, UK: 2006
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin: 2007 – 2012
Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, National Spinal Injuries Unit, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, D7. 2013 – to date
Academic Record
Undergraduate Education
University College Dublin + Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1989 – 1995)
MB BCh BAO
Postgraduate Education
Associate Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1998
Master of Medical Science (Surgery) MMedSci, NUIG, 1999
Intercollegiate Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Trauma & Orthopaedics, RCS, 2004
United States Medical Licencing, 2004
Master of Surgery (MCh) by Thesis, UCD, 2005
Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST), 2006
Clinical Fellowship in Spine / Scoliosis Service, Hospital for Special Surgery / Cornell Weill Medical College, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, U.S.A.
– 2006
Clinical Observer – Trauma Service, Dept. of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2006