Curriculum Vitae – Gavin Bowyer MChir FRCS(Orth)
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon

Qualifications
BA (Camb) 1982
BM BCh (Oxon) 1985
FRCS (Eng) 1989
FRCS(Orth) 1995
Master of Surgery, MChir (Camb) 1998
Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery since 1997

Current Post
Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics - Southampton General Hospital
Honrary Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics – University of Southampton
Clinical Director for Orthopaedics, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Major Career Interests
Trauma Surgery
My major interest lies in trauma surgery. This includes the management of soft tissue injuries and fractures of the limbs and pelvis. I have a particular interest in reconstructive lower limb surgery and the management of osteomyelitis and the complications of fractures to the pelvis, acetabulum and lower limb.

Foot & Ankle Surgery
My elective practice consists of foot and ankle surgery, dealing with deformity, degeneration and injuries to the foot and ankle, utilizing arthroscopic and minimal access techniques where appropriate. I work in close liaison with podiatrists and physiotherapists.

Medico-Legal Work
I am fully conversant with the requirements of CPR 35. I produce more than 200 reports per annum. Currently about 10% are for the defence, but many reports are now produced as a Single Joint Expert. I also undertake medical negligence work as an expert for claimant and defence, and under the NHSLS.

I have attended course on preparation of medical reports, developing a medico-legal practice and the Society of Expert Witnesses annual meeting and the Bond Solon seminar. I have experience, as an expert witness, in Court. I am registered on the database of experts with APIL and the Directory of Expert Witnesses.

Undergraduate Medical Education
1979 - 1982 Downing College, Cambridge.
1982 -1985 St Johns College, Oxford

Surgical Training Posts
SHO Posts in Orthopaedics, Burns, Plastic Surgery, General Surgery, Surgical Oncology in London. Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar Posts in London, Senior Registrar posts in Southampton General Hospital

Fellowship Training
I spent a one year Fellowship training in Orthopaedic Traumatology at the Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 1993/4

Hunterian Professorship
Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1996/7. Oration "The management of small fragment wounds in modern warfare - a return to Hunterian principles?"

Publications & Research
Papers:
More than 40 papers on a variety of orthopaedic and trauma subjects, including the Instructional Course Lecture in Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery on the management of gunshot wounds to the limbs.

Books:
'Regional Orthopaedics: The Ankle & Foot' Chapter 21 in 'Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures, 9th Edition, Hodder Arnold, London 2010
'Injuries of the Ankle & Foot' Chapter 31 in 'Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures', 9th Edition, Hodder Arnold, London 2010
'Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine', published by Springer, 2002
‘Limb Injuries’ Chapter in 'Surgery', the major text by Mosby, 2000
‘Falls’ Chapter in 'Scientific Foundations of Trauma'. Butterworth Heinemann 1997
‘General principles of wound management’ and ‘Wound Ballistics - Historical overview and epidemiology’ Chapters in 'Ballistic Trauma'. Edward Arnold, 1997
‘General Classifications’ Chapter in 'Classifications in Musculo-skeletal Trauma. Heinemann Butterworth, 1999
‘The Management of Mine Wounds’.Chapter in 'Trauma' Edward Arnold, 1997