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MB ChB - 2004

MRCS - 2007

Higher Surgical Training - 2010-2016, Birmingham Orthopaedic Training Programme

FRCS (Tr & Orth) - 2015

CCT - 2016

Consultant Orthopaedic & Musculoskeletal Tumour Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham - 2017 to present

Specialist interests

- Primary hip and knee replacements

- Revision arthroplasty

- Benign and malignant bone tumours

- Benign and malignant soft tissue tumours

- Skeletal metastasis

- Clinical research and basic science

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner of 9 research prizes, including national and international prizes.

Author or orthopaedic book chapters, including: Tumour of the Shoulder published by Springer; Pelvic and Acetabular Recontstruction Following Oncological Resection.

Author of > 70 peer reviewed peers, including orthopaedic and MSK oncology papers. Researchgate profile = > 86% of members.

Author and presenter of research at major national and international orthopaedic and oncology scientific meetings since 2012.

EDUCATION ROLES

OSCE examiner, University of Birmingham Medical School, 2012 - present.

Faculty, Wrightington Orthopaedic Basic Science Course, 2015 – present.

Faculty member, Miller Oxford UK FRCS Orth, 2016 – present.

Elective medical student supervisor, 2016 - present.

Faculty, Sheffield FRCS Orth Course, 2017 – present.

Educational supervisor for undergraduate medical students, University of Oxford, August 2017 – present.

Honorary senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, 2017 - present.

Intercollegiate surgical curriculum programme (ISCP) appraiser – Birmingham Orthopaedic Training Programme, 2017 – present.

Educational and Clinical Supervisor for T&O registrars, Birmingham Orthopaedic Training Programme, 2017 - present.

Mentorship scheme consultant for surgical trainees, West Midlands Deanery, 2021.

LEADERSHIP ROLES

Member and regular chair, National Ewing's MDT, November 2017 –present.

Chair of Trust Audit & Business Day, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, December 2017 – present.

Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme member - Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, 2017 - present.

Clinical lead for Health Records & Information – Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, April 2018 – present.

Independent Scientific Advisory Panel (ISAP) member – Royal Orthopaedic Hospital 2019 – present.

I was awarded a CCT in July 2016 after completing specialist registrar training in orthopaedics on the Birmingham Orthopaedic Training Programme. I have completed two fellowships in orthopaedic oncology and complex limb reconstruction. The first at the Royal Orthopaedic Hositpal, Birmingham, working in the bone tumour unit, and the second at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Cente, Oxford, within the oncology unit.

I work as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the world renowned complex arthroplasty and MSK tumour unit at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. I specialise in the management of patients with bone and soft tissue tumours. I regularly perform resections and complex reconstructions for patients with a musculoskeletal oncology diagnosis. My clinical practise also incorporates primary and complex arthroplasty, including revision joint replacement. I coordinate the supra-regional sarcoma MDT as well as frequently chair the National Ewings MDT. As the ROH receives between 3,500- 4,000 new oncology referrals a year I facilitated the introduction of a daily diagnostic MDT to triage all new referrals expediently. I am currently clinical lead for the Trust's health records advisory group and I am steering the delivery of an electronic patient record.

I am passionate about education and I have close links with the local medical schools, specialist training deanery and wider FRCS training community. I regularly lecture to medical students during their attachment at my hospital and examine their OSCEs. I am an educational supervisor for both GP and orthopaedic trainees and I am a registrar appraiser. I am an invited faculty member for several FRCS training courses around the country, including the Miller Orthopaedic course in Oxford, the Wrightington basic orthopaedic sciences course and the Sheffield FRCS course.

I have a keen interest in clinical research. I have published work on a wide range of orthopaedic subjects and have presented at many national and international meetings. I believe research enables the medical community to provide the best possible care for their patients through the utilisation of an evidence-based approach. Inherently, sarcoma is a rare cancer and, as such, I am committed to furthering collaborative research between institutes in order to pool resources and expertise for the benefit of all of our patients.

For me, being a surgeon isn't a job, it's a calling. I take huge pride in caring for my patients and helping them through what is often an incredibly difficult time.