Andrew Duckworth is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in Edinburgh Orthopaedics at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Following completion of his training in Edinburgh, he was an Upper Limb Fellow at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit. 

His clinical and research interests are in trauma and upper limb surgery, with a focus on injuries around the elbow, wrist and hand. His current research includes multi-centre clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, large data studies and the efficacy of patient reported outcome measures.

He is Co-CI, co-app and PI on NIHR funded clinical trials.  He is an Editorial Board Member for The Bone & Joint Journal (BJJ), Bone & Joint Open, Bone & Joint Research (BJR), Bone & Joint360 and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT).