Mr Alipour-Tootoonchi (Faz Alipour) is a consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon based in Tayside. He has been a Trauma & Orthopaedic consultant in NHS Tayside since 2004.

Faz graduated his medical degree (MBCHB), from University of Dundee in 1991. He has completed his Trauma and Orthopaedic training in Tayside, and Inverness obtaining his FRCS Ed (Trauma & Orthopaedic) qualification in 2001. This was followed by a year of fellowship training at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia in lower limb arthroplasty, major trauma and reconstructive Orthopaedic surgery. He is fully registered with the General Medical Council as an Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with a licence to practice.

Mr Alipour’s main elective Orthopaedic sub-speciality interests are on hip and knee arthroplasty (replacement) procedures as well as knee arthroscopic (key hole) surgery. He has extensive experience on these procedures, both at the NHS and private health care settings. Mr Alipour has been trained in robotic hip and knee replacement procedures and is able to offer these procedures to his private patients at Albyn Hospital, Aberdeen.

Faz has offered private practice treatment from the BMI Fernrae Hospital in Dundee since 2005 and following closure of this unit in April 2019, he has transferred his private practicing privileges and admission rights to the Albyn Hospital in Aberdeen as well as the Kings Park Hospital in Stirling.

Mr Alipour has vast experience in management of acute orthopaedic trauma as well as reconstructive trauma surgery. Faz has been the clinical governance lead of Orthopaedic and Trauma department of NHS Tayside (2011-2016). He is an Orthopaedic & Trauma speciality trainer supervising numerous trainees through their higher surgical training. Mr Alipour is a clinical lecturer to the undergraduate and clinical supervisor of postgraduate master students of the University of Dundee.

Mr Alipour offers consultation clinics on all aspects of hip and knee problems. He performs surgical treatments at the Albyn and Kings Park Hospitals in Aberdeen and Stirling respectively. He has preferred practitioner status with BUPA and AXA PPP insurance companies and offers consultation to insured and self pay patients.