Professor Holly Morris graduated from the University of Leicester in 2008. She undertook basic surgical training in New Zealand before returning home, to the East Midlands, where she trained in Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery, obtaining the FRCS(Tr&Orth) in 2022. Holly undertook fellowship training at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre and the Auckland Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Unit.
Holly has a special interest in the management of paediatric and congenital hand differences. She was awarded both the BSSH Stack Travelling Fellowship and Newton Travelling Fellowship to develop her interest. With these awards, Holly visited Stanford Medicine (California) and Washington University (St Louis) in the United States, North Shore Hospital (Sydney) and the Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne) in Australia and the Dr Paul Brand Centre for Hand Surgery in Vellore, India.
Following a short-term consultant post in Auckland, Holly returned home to the East Midlands where she was appointed to a substantive consultant NHS post in the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in 2025. She currently leads the teaching for the fellows in the unit and is an educational supervisor to trauma and orthopaedic surgical trainees.
Prof Morris has a strong interest in research and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield for her work on healthcare textiles. Her PhD focused on the role of sustainable textiles within the healthcare setting and the waste created by disposable surgical gowns and drapes. Part of her PhD work was submitted to the Covid-19 Inquiry and also used to inform guidance on textile use in surgery for the Green Surgery Report. She is currently working on an NIHR funded project investigating healthcare laundering.
Holly has published papers and textbooks, spoken internationally on both surgical and textile matters relevant to her expertise and supervised postgraduate students. She is currently a member of the International Council of the Textile Institute and Chair of the Resilience in Greening Healthcare Textiles group.
Please contact Holly via her secretaries Amanda Naylor and Ellie Owen on 01332 785254.
Holly also undertakes private work at Nuffield Derby. Her secretary Louise Bacon can be contacted on 07703 510225.
