Nick qualified from St. Barts and the Royal London School of Medicine in 2001. He undertook his early post-graduate training in London and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, before completing his senior Orthopaedic training in the Oxford deanery.
He was awarded the Oxford Hand Surgery Fellowship and benefited from visiting fellowships to the Mayo Clinic and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He obtained the Diploma in Hand Surgery from Manchester University in 2016 and was subsequently appointed as a Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
He is currently the Clinical and Information Governance Lead for hand and wrist surgery, an Assigned Educational Supervisor for two orthopaedic higher specialist trainees and a consultant appraiser. At a national level he is a member of the Education and Training Committee of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, and internationally a member of the Relationship and Subspecialties Committee of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand.
November 2020 - AO UK Research Grant - £9,000 (co-applicant) Variation in patient care pathways for scaphoid fractures
November 2019 BSSH Pump Priming Award - £10,000 Feasibility study for thumb UCL injuries
October 2019 - BMA - Doris Hillier Grant (co-applicant) Towards better treatment for people with base of thumb OA
July 2018 - OHSRC Research Grant - £10,000 Understanding the causes of upper limb tendon problems
June 2018 - Best Presentation - Reconstructive Surgery Trials Network Steroid versus placebo injection for base of thumb OA
June 2018 - Best Poster - Reconstructive Surgery Trials Network Acute ruptures of the thumb UCL: to repair or not repair?
January 2016 - Peel Travelling Fellowship Grant - £1500
September 2015 - BSSH Travel Bursary - £1500
September 2015 - ASSH International Travelling Fellow Programme Mayo Clinic and Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
March 2014 - National Advanced Training Fellowships - Highest ranking 2 Nicholas D. Riley MBBS MRCS FRCS (Tr & Orth) Dip Hand Surg
Hand Infection. Instructional Course in Hand Surgery. BSSH. Manchester. January 2020 3D printing in hand and wrist surgery. Hand Congress of the Hungarian Hand Society. October 2019. Hand Surgery. 6th Qatar Orthopaedic Review Course. September 2019
Faculty Member. Hand and Wrist Surgical Skills Course, Madrid. Acumed
Introduction to the Wrist. Pulvertaft Centre, Derby. January 2019
Hand Surgery for the FRCS (Tr & Orth). UK Miller Orthopaedic Review Course. January 2019. Dupuytren’s Disease. Hand Surgery FRCS Course, ORUK. London. Annually since 2017.
Assessment of Complex Distal Radius Fractures. Israeli Society for Surgery of the Hand. The Hand and Wrist Meeting. Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2018.
Management of Scaphoid Nonunion. Israeli Society for Surgery of the Hand. The Hand and Wrist Meeting. Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2018.
Vascularised bone graft from the distal radius to treat scaphoid non-union. Israeli Society for Surgery of the Hand. The Hand and Wrist Meeting. Tel Aviv, Israel. June 2018.
Why spend your life treating hand trauma? Department of Traumatology and Hand Surgery, Clinical Centre, University of Pecs. Pecs, Hungary. May 2018.
Hand Surgery for the FRCS (Tr & Orth). UK Miller Orthopaedic Review Course. December 2017. Flexor Tendon Injuries. Derby Hand Diploma Booster Day. December 2017
The Rheumatoid Hand. Hand Surgery FRCS Course, Orthopaedic Research UK. September 2017. 4
The presentation, diagnosis and management of non-traumatic wrist pain: an evaluation of current practice in secondary care in the UK NHS. Dean JF, Carr A, Trickett RW, Kluzek S, Riley N, et al. https://doi.org/ 10.1093/rap/rkaa030 (in press)
Salvage of the Failed Total Wrist Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review. Berber O, Gidwani S, Garagnani L, Spiteri M, Riley N, et al. DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1713728 (in press)
Is Partial Wrist Denervation Beneficial in Chronic Wrist Pain? A Systematic Review. Kadhum M, Riley N, Furniss D. JPRAS. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2020.03.032 (in press)
Management of osteoarthritis at the base of the thumb a multi centre service evaluation project. Parker S, Riley N et al. BJJ. 102-B:5, 600-605
Thumb carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis - is there a role for denervation? A systemic review. Teo I, Riley N. JPRAS. 73(7):1208-1220
Hazlerigg A, Riley N, McNab I. Metacarpophalangeal joint extensor tendon centralisation: a new technique using the juncturae tendinum with a proximal based partial extensor digitorum communism slip. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 102(5):391
Ferguson R, Riley ND, et al. Wrist pain: a systematic review of prevalence and risk factors - what is the role of occupation and activity. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2019 14;20(1):542
Riley N, Vella-Baldacchino M, Thurley N, Hopewell S, Carr AJ, Dean BJF. Injection therapy for base of thumb osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 2019 Sep 11;9(9):e027507.
Dean B, Henari S, Thurley N, Little C, McNab I, Riley N. Therapeutic interventions for osteoarthritis of the wrist: a systematic review and meta-analysis. F1000Res. 2018 Sep 18;7:1484.
Dean BJF, Riley ND, et al. A new acute scaphoid fracture assessment method: a reliability study of the ‘long axis’ measurement. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (2018) 19:310.
Mikhail M, Wormald JCR, Thurley N, Riley N, Dean BJF. Therapeutic interventions for acute complete ruptures of the ulnar collateral ligament of the thumb: a systematic review. F1000Res. 2018 Jun 8;7:714.
Rupani N, Riley N, McNab I. Spontaneous Healing of a Pediatric Scaphoid Proximal Pole fracture Nonunion. J Wrist Surg. 2018 Feb;7(1):81-83.
Dudareva M, Ferguson J, Riley N et al. Osteomyelitis of the Pelvic Bones: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment. J Bone Jt Infect. 2017; 2(4): 184-193.
Fazekas J, Riley N, McNab I. The use of henna as a semipermanent skin marker to indicate the site of application for ultrasonography bone stimulation. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2017 May; 99(5):413.
Sykes AE, Riley ND, et al. Scaphoid fractures are not isolated to the younger population. BJJ. 2016. Monk AP, Van Oldenrijk J, Riley ND, et al. Biomechanics of the lower limb. Surgery 2016; 34(9). 5
Nicholas D. Riley MBBS MRCS FRCS (Tr & Orth) Dip Hand Surg
Fazekas J, Riley N, et al. The use of a self-assembled splint for minor wrist injuries. JHS(E). 2016 Aug.
Fazekas J, Hazlerigg A, Riley N et al. Covering external fixator pins with plastic tubing to protect the neighbouring digit. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2016 Apr 8:1.
Riley ND, Camilleri D, McNally M. Osteoid osteoma following fracture of the distal tibia: A case report and literature review. Injury Extra 2014;45(9).
Spiegelberg B, Riley ND, Taylor GJ. An Anatomical Study: Risk of Axillary Nerve Injury during Proximal Humeral Blade Nail Fixation. Injury 2014;45(8).
Ferguson J, Dudareva M, Riley ND, et al. The use of a biogradable antibiotic loaded calcium sulphate carrier containing tobramycin for the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis: a series of 195 cases. Bone Joint J 2014; 96(6)-B.
Monk AP, Simpson DJ, Riley ND, et al. Biomechanics in orthopaedics: considerations of the lower limb. Surgery 2013; 31(9).
Riley ND, Hashemi-Nejad A. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Surgical Management. In: Oxford Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma.
Rossi R, Rose B, Riley ND, et al. An Association Between Breast Cancer and Chondrosarcoma. J Bone Joint Surg Br Proceedings, Jan 2011; 93-B: 77.
Jennings R, Riley ND, et al. A Comparison Between Pre-Operative and Excision Biopsy Results in Chondrosarcoma of Long Bone. J Bone Joint Surg Br Proceedings, Jan 2011; 93-B: 77.
Riley ND, Heidari N, et al. Dorsally Plating Distal Radius Fractures has Comparable Results to Volar Plating. J Bone Joint Surg Br Proceedings, Oct 2010; 92-B: 557.
Riley ND, Gangopadhyay S, Sivaji C K. Expanding Nail or Expanding Femur? Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc 2010;44(2):166-168
Rossi R, Rose B, Riley ND, et al. An Association Between Breast Cancer and Chondrosarcoma. J Bone Joint Surg Br Proceedings, Jul 2010; 92-B: 449.
Jennings R, Riley ND, et al. A Comparison Between Pre-Operative and Excision Biopsy Results in Chondrosarcoma of Long Bone. J Bone Joint Surg Br Proceedings, Jul 2010; 92-B: 474.
Jennings R, Riley ND, et al. An Evaluation of the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Grade of Preoperative Biopsy Compared to Surgical Excision in Chondrosarcoma of the Long Bones. International Journal of Surgical Oncology. Article ID 270195, 4 pages, 2010. doi:10.1155/2010/270195
Riley ND, Sivaji CK. A Radiolucent Retractor for Locking Screws. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2009 Jul;91(5):439. PMID:19630161.