Jamieson Dickie - Prosthetics
Jamieson Dickie is the Everest Rescue Trust’s Prosthetics Specialist. Along with our Ambassador, Mark Inglis, Jamieson will be assisting the Trust in determining exactly how we can best help those Nepalese that have lost limbs to frostbite or other injuries in the extreme altitude areas of Nepal.
Jamieson has been a prosthetics and orthotics specialist for a decade and has worked all over the world. He says that the most rewarding and at the same time, most frustrating, job so far was supervising the design and structure of a rehabilitation centre and apprentice scheme for Manav Kendra Nawan Nagar, India.
Jamieson is a prosthetic management specialist and his hands-on expertise extends to the assessment, prescription, design, building, fitting, adjusting and repair of limb prostheses on a wide range of patients; including children, athletes, diabetics, geriatrics, veterans and those with congenital deformities.
Having worked in India, he’s used to working with the materials at hand to create limbs out of pretty much anything. He’s an expert in using laminates, metals & thermoplastics, something that gives the Trust a huge range of options in setting up the replacement limb part of the Sagarmatha Medical Centre in Nepal.
The Trust expects Jamieson to provide a wealth of information and expertise to the project and help us to deliver a medical centre and service that the locals actually need rather than the centre and service that we think they need. We’re committed to doing this in the best way for the Nepalese and Jamieson certainly shares our vision there.
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