Mr Sam Heaton
Date of Fellowship: July 2016 to July 2017
Current Appointment(s): Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon Yeovil District Hospital, Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon Circle Bath Hospital, Honorary Senior Lecturer Bristol University
Biography:
Sam has a specialist interest in hip and knee replacement primary and revision surgery. He also performs hip arthroscopy. Sam undertakes all aspects of trauma surgery including major trauma and fragility fractures. He has an interest in regenerative medicine using mesenchymal stem cells from fat, a growing orthopaedic field.
He qualified from Kings College London in 2005 and undertook his orthopaedic training on the prestigious Royal London Hospital rotation. He also undertook a masters in engineering at Cardiff University. He entered the specialist register in 2015.
Sam subsequently completed a one year arthroplasty and trauma fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. He then went in on to complete a specialist hip surgery fellowship at the Royal Bournemouth hospital in all aspects of hip surgery, also for one year. In 2017 he was the visiting fellow at R. Cowley Shock Trauma Hospital in Baltimore USA specialising in major trauma.
Sam has presented nationally and internationally numerous times winning the AO Asia pacific young investigator of the year for his work presented in Cheng Du China. He has published many papers, is an honorary senior lecturer at Bristol University and teaches trainee surgeons both locally and on national courses
Comments on time as Prof Middleton (ORI) Fellow:
My fellowship in Bournemouth enabled me to start my consultant practice confident and “ready to go”. Supervision was structured so that by the end of my year I had undertaken many procedures (over 100 THR and 20 Revision THR) as primary surgeon.
I was schooled in how to manage consultant practice which is probably one of the most important aspects or the fellowship. I was able to start my consultant job with a structure learned from Rob that I still use today.
