Mr John McKinley

John McKinley was appointed as a Consultant in Edinburgh in 2007 as an elective foot and ankle surgeon.

He graduated from University of Dundee and completed his orthopaedic training in Edinburgh, with a fellowship in Melbourne in 2005. He was the first consultant to be appointed as a foot and ankle surgeon in Scotland and has been heavily involved in developing foot and ankle services. He is regularly involved in educating surgeons and allied health professionals and helped set up a national multidisciplinary foot and ankle group which has just had its 15th annual meeting. He set up the ChM in trauma and orthopaedic surgery -a surgical distance learning program resulting from the collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and is the program director. John McKinley deals with all aspects of foot and ankle pathology. He was one of the pioneers of Minimally Invasive foot surgery in Scotland, he performs ankle replacements regularly and has a particular interest in sporting injuries. He regularly treats players from the Scottish Rugby Union, Scottish Premiership Football clubs, dancers from the Scottish Ballet Company and athletes from the Scottish Institute of Sport.

He is currently the Clinical Director of Trauma and Orthopaedics in Lothian.