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Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Duniv MVB CertVR DSAO ACVSMR MRCVS (born 13 December 1967) is a pioneering Irish neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon. He currently operates a veterinary referral centre with more than 140 staff, called Fitzpatrick Referrals, based in Eashing, Surrey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Give a Cat Two New Feet – Done! )〕 In 2009 he became the first surgeon in the world to successfully apply a cutting edge amputation prosthesis to a cat named Oscar from Jersey who had lost two feet in an accident with a combine harvester. Noel appeared in the 2010 BBC series ''The Bionic Vet'' which featured some of his pioneering surgical work. Since 2014, he has appeared in the Channel 4 programme ''The Supervet''. ==Biography== Noel Fitzpatrick, originally from Ballyfin Co Laois in Ireland, obtained his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from University College Dublin in 1990. Following scholarships at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Ghent, he went on to complete the RCVS Certificates in small animal orthopaedics and radiology prior to founding Fitzpatrick Referrals in 1997. Noel has also attained boarded specialist status by examination in both the USA and the UK, with the degrees of ACVSMR, American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, and DSAS(Orth), the Diploma in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics). On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Noel Fitzpatrick was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Surrey in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of surgery and for pioneering the concept of 'One Medicine', the fusion of technologies advancing veterinary and human medicine in tandem. The degree was conferred upon him by University of Surrey Pro-Chancellor and Actress Dame Penelope Keith. Noel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida School of Veterinary Medicine〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Noel Fitzpatrick )〕 and is the foundation Professor of Orthopaedics for the new School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey. In November 2014 University College Dublin presented Noel Fitzpatrick with its inaugural alumni award in veterinary medicine as recognition of his revolutionary work in the treatment of small animals. Papers include the publication of a treatment algorithm for addressing elbow dysplasia〔(elbow dysplasia )〕 and reporting the outcomes and complication rates in a series of over 1000 consecutive tibial plateau levelling osteotomies. He has devised, tested and implemented more than twenty new procedures and implant systems in the past decade, including new joint resurfacing and replacement technologies, techniques for growth deformity correction, limb amputation endo- and exo-prosthetics for limb salvage, metallic-tendon in-growth and fracture repair systems and implants for spinal fusion and disc replacement. Fitzpatrick is a director of Fitzbionics, a company created to conceive, design, develop, manufacture, test and implement new implants for the alleviation of pain and suffering in animals. Implants are custom made by a group of dedicated researchers and bio-engineers for specific patients in need of a solution that doesn’t exist elsewhere. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Noel Fitzpatrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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