SVEN PUTNIS

Consultant Knee Surgeon

MB ChB FRCS (Orth)

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

October 2017 Certificate of Completion of Training in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Health Education England.

November 2016 Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain

FRCS(Tr&Orth)

June 2002 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MB ChB. Leicester

Medical School, UK

 

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Aug ’21 – Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant. Bristol Royal Infirmary,

University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust

Jan ’23 – National Institute of Health & Care Research.

Local Specialty Research Lead West of England – Musculoskeletal Disorders

 

SPECIALIST FELLOWSHIPS

Jan ’18 – Jul ’19     Australian Orthopaedic Association Clinical & Research Fellowship

David Parker, Myles Coolican, Brett Fritch, Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute.

Apr – Oct ’15         The Bone and Joint Journal Trauma Fellowship. Paul Rollinson.

Ngwelezane Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Oct – Dec ’09        AO Foundation Trauma Fellowship. Cong-Feng Luo.

The Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China.

 

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Aug ’19 – Aug ‘21  Locum Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant

Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.

Apr ‘11 – Oct ’17   Trauma & Orthopaedic Specialist Training Programme:

UCLH. Fares Haddad, Rahul Patel, James Youngman, Sam Oussedik

RNOH. Richard Carrington, Aresh Hashimi-Nejad

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Rupert Eckersley

Northwick Park & Central Middlesex Hospitals. Simon Jennings, Matt Bartlett

The Whittington Hospital. David Sweetnam, Adrian O’Gorman

 

Jan ’10 – Jan ’11    Registrar. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery. Ian Meakin, Daniel Rahme.

Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Apr ’07 – Oct ’09   Registrar. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Martin Bircher, Mark Rickman, Simon Bridle. St. George’s Hospital

Aug ’06 – Apr ’07   Clinical Fellow. Spinal Surgery and Neurosurgery.

Henry Marsh, Simon Stapleton. Atkinson Morley, St. George’s Hospital

Feb ’05 – Aug ’06   Senior House Officer. Urology and Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Ken Anson, Mike Bailey, Philip Mitchell. St. George’s Hospital

Aug ‘03 – Oct ’04   Senior House Officer. A&E and General Surgery.

Mark Lansdown, Tom Brennan, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds

Aug ‘02 – Aug ’03   House Officer. Orthopaedics, General Medicine and Surgery.

Geoffrey Sandle, Peter Templeton. The Leeds General Infirmary

 

MEMBERSHIPS

British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)

European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy (ESSKA)

International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS)

Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS)

British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)

British Patellofemoral Society (BPFS)

 

JOURNAL REVIEWER

Jul ’16 – The Bone and Joint Journal

Jun ’20 – BMJ Case Reports

Jun ’20 – BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Jan ’21 – Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Aug ’22 – Journal of Knee Surgery

 

BOOK CHAPTERS & PUBLICATIONS

 

MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES

Nov ’23  Uni Knee Symposium, Bristol, UK

June ’23  ISAKOS, Boston, US

May ’23  BASK Congress, London, UK

Apr ’22  BASK Congress, Cardiff, UK

Nov ’21  Combined Bristol & Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Meeting, Bristol, UK

Jun ’21  Orthopaedic Trauma Society Annual Meeting, virtual, UK

May ’21  BASK Congress, virtual, UK

May ’21  ESSKA Congress, virtual, Italy

Jan ’21  British Patellofemoral Society Annual Meeting, virtual, UK

Nov ’20  Bristol and Oxford Unicompartmental Arthritis Meeting, virtual, UK

Nov ’20  Wexham Park ACL Meeting, virtual, UK

Feb ’20  UK Prosthetic Joint Infection Meeting, Birmingham, UK

Jan ’20  Orthopaedic Trauma Society Annual Meeting, Newcastle, UK

Jan ’20  6th Annual SW UK Trauma Meeting, Les Carroz, France

May ’19  ISAKOS, Cancun, Mexico

Mar ’19  BASK, Brighton, UK

Jun ’18  Surgical Robotics Summit – Research and Innovation, Sydney, Australia

May ’18  APKASS, Sydney, Australia

Oct ’17  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

May ’17  Implant Related Infections. Orthopaedic Research UK, Norwich, UK

Mar ’17  National Hip Fracture Database Annual Regional Meeting, London, UK

Jun ’16  MatOrtho Education. MRK and SAIPH Knee Systems, London, UK

Oct ’15  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

Apr ’15  South African Arthroplasty Society Annual Congress, Durban, South Africa

Oct ’15  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

Oct ‘14  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

Apr ’14  The London Hip Meeting, London UK

Mar ’14  British Hip Society Annual Meeting, Exeter, UK

Oct ’13  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

Jun ’13  EFORT, Istanbul, Turkey

Apr ’13  The London Hip Meeting, London, UK

Oct ’12  The London Knee Meeting, London, UK

Sep ’12  25 Years of Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty, Madrid, Spain

Nov ’09  Chinese Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting, Xiamen, China

 

SPECIALTY TRAINING COURSES

Apr ’21  ISAKOS Virtual Course: New Technologies in Knee Arthroplasty

Feb ’21  Arthroplasty and PJI: An Update. UK PJI Webinar, UK

Nov ‘20  Osteochondral Regeneration Technology Seminar, UK

May ’19  Revision Arthroplasty Technology Forum. Smith & Nephew. Sydney, Australia

July ’17  Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS). London

May ’14  The RNOH from Primary through to Revision Knee Replacement. Leeds

Feb ’14  Imperial Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty Instructional. London

Jun ’13   EFORT Orthopaedic Trauma Review. Istanbul, Turkey

Aug ’10  Cadaveric Hand and Upper Limb Course. Medartis. Sydney, Australia

Feb ’10  AO Advances in Operative Fracture Management. Melbourne, Australia

Oct ’09  Principles of Intramedullary Nailing. Geneva, Switzerland.

Jan ’09  The Upper Limb Cadaveric Course. St. George’s Hospital, London

June ’08  AO Basic Principles of Operative Fracture Management. Marco, USA.

Mar ’08  Management of Fractured Neck of Femur Instructional Course. Epsom.

 

TEACHING

Mar ’21 – present Bristol Royal Infirmary Junior T&O Doctor Teaching Programme lead

Jan ’20  Educational Supervisor Award, Health Education England

Aug – Sep ’18  Clinical Supervision: Teaching and Facilitating Learning Course University of East Anglia

Jan ’18 – Jan ’19 Orthopaedic Series Lecturer for T&O Nurses at Royal North Shore Hospital

Mar ‘17  Training the Trainers Course, Royal College of Surgeons

Nov ’16  Faculty for Imperial Knee Arthroscopy Simulation Course

Sep ’17  Curriculum development team member for AO Recon

Apr ’14 – Apr ‘17  Lead Trauma & Orthopaedic Educator for University College London MB PhD students

Aug ’07 – Aug ’09 Royal College of Surgeons Basic Surgical Skills Course trainer

 

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Jan ’23 –  National Institute of Health & Care Research. Local Specialty Research Lead West of England – Musculoskeletal Disorders

May ’20 – MSK Surgical lead BNSSG CCG Shared Decision Making Steering Group

May ’20 – MSK Surgical lead BNSSG CCG Keeping People Healthy Steering Group

Feb ’21  Training the Trainers Course: Shared Decision Making, Health Education England

Feb ’21  Effective Feedback and Reflection Course, Health Education England

Dec ’20  Clinical Leadership for Trainers Course, Health Education England

Jun – Aug ’17  The Edward Jenner Award in Healthcare Leadership Foundations NHS Leadership Academy