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
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