Dr. Mátyás Czipri is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in foot and ankle diseases. He studied his specialty in England where he worked for 12 years as a foot and ankle surgeon in the public health system. During this time, he gained considerable experience and routine in all aspects of adult foot surgery, as well as mastering the latest procedures in modern foot surgery. In the last 10 years, he has performed more than 5,000 foot and ankle surgeries. He returned to Hungary in 2019 and currently works as a senior physician at the Department of Sports Surgery and Orthopaedics of the National Institute of Sports Medicine.
He started his career as an orthopaedic surgeon more than 20 years ago, after graduating from university. He studied and practiced general orthopaedics at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the POTE University of Tartu. He spent three years in the United States on a research fellowship at RUSH University in Chicago. He later obtained a PhD degree based on his research. After his return home, he qualified in orthopaedics and his interest turned early on to podiatric surgery. Driven by a desire to master foot and ankle surgery, he went to the UK where he successfully applied for an ankle and foot surgery fellowship at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. This marked the beginning of his formal training in foot surgery, within the well-established and high quality training system of the British National Health Service. He was given the opportunity to learn the full spectrum of adult foot and ankle surgery and later to practice as a consultant. He completed his second foot surgery fellowship at the highly prestigious Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre in Exeter and subsequently gained a permanent position there. He worked for eleven years as a foot and ankle specialist and gained considerable experience in all aspects of adult foot surgery. He has performed around five thousand foot and ankle operations over the last 10 years. He has performed a large number of same day surgical procedures mainly for forefoot corrective surgery and ankle arthroscopy. The other half of his surgical activity has been in the correction of complex foot deformities, arthrodesis of the foot and midfoot, treatment of degenerative ankle diseases including arthroscopic arthrodesis and total ankle arthroplasty, and the treatment of acute and chronic soft tissue injuries of the ankle and foot. He routinely used modern and minimally invasive techniques for ankle ligament and Achilles tendon reconstruction, plantar plate reconstruction, and other surgical procedures. As an orthopaedic clinical leader of a multidisciplinary team caring for diabetic feet, he has also gained considerable experience in the conservative and surgical management of diabetic feet and Charcot arthropathy.