Bowyer, Mr Gavin

MChir FRCS(Orth)

Speciality

Trauma and Orthopaedics 

Sub-speciality

Adult foot and ankle surgery
Pelvic and acetabular trauma, Lower limb trauma and reconstruction

Training and Education

Undergraduate training in Cambridge, clinical training in Oxford.
Surgical training in the Armed Forces (Army) in London, Oxford and a 2 year period as a Senior Registrar in Southampton.
A year spent as a Trauma Fellow in the USA (Baltimore, Shock Trauma Centre)

Experience

Mr Bowyer has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust 1998 as a Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

My training and early career as a military surgeon provided a wide range of experience, both in terms of pathology and injury, as well as in terms of geography and infrastructure support.
My interest in foot and ankle trauma has developed over the past 15 years, with a number of research projects. I am also very interested in the teaching of orthopaedic trauma surgery and have had the opportunity to develop that as Chair of the Education Committee for an educational foundation.

Key achievements

Appointed Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1996, for work on the management of small fragment wounds (“shrapnel”) in warfare.
Awarded a higher degree, MChir from Cambridge for work on ballistic wounds.
Work on ankle injuries and instability has been presented at numerous international meetings including the International Trauma Symposia in Beijing, St Petersburg, Rome and Athens and at the recent Case Controversies conference in New York.
Invited to work for International Committee of the Red Cross on a Middle East special mission.
Appointed Honorary Manpower Liaison Officer for the Britiah Orthopaedic Association in 2003, and continue in that role.
Served for 5 years on the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma and Orthopaedics.

Key awards and prizes

Cambridge Entrance Exhibition
Worts Travelling Scholars award (expedition to Africa)
Thames Valley Police award (bravery)
Leishmann memorial prize
Blewitt award (military operational surgery)
Alexander prize (military surgery)

Research

Editor of “Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine” textbook
More than 40 papers on a range of orthopaedic and trauma subjects.
Chapters in major textbooks on:
Falls (in Scientific Foundations of Trauma)
Wound Management (in “Ballistic Trauma”)
Limb injuries (in “Surgery”)
General Classification Systems (in “Classifications in Musculo-Skeltal Trauma”)