Mr Ross Fawdington
MBChB, FRCS Ed (Tr&Orth), MSc Hand Surg
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
Mr Fawdington is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon. His NHS practice is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which is a Major Trauma Centre and receives both military and civilian casualties. His trauma workload includes both upper and lower limb surgery. He is also the Clinical Lead for Metastatic Bone Disease.
His elective practice is delivered at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and focusses exclusively on hand and wrist conditions. He is one of only a few surgeons to have a Masters Degree in Hand Surgery and he passed this with merit.
His training and international experience are detailed below.
International Experience
The British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) awarded Mr Fawdington the prestigious Stack Travelling Fellowship.
He visited multiple centres of excellence in the USA bringing international expertise with tips, tricks and techniques back to the UK.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Dr(s): Alex Shin, Allan Bishop, Peter Rhee
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Dr(s): Scott Wolfe, Steve Lee, Michelle Carlson
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Dr(s): Jesse Jupiter, Neal Chen, Chaitanya Mudgal
Dell Medical Centre, Austin
Dr(s): David Ring, Austin Hill, Dave Laverty
The Birmingham Hand Centre
Fellowship Training
Mr Fawdington was selected as one of the top 10 T&O and Plastics surgeons to complete the Advanced Training Post in Hand Surgery. This is a highly competitive post which is nationally recruited to and externally audited to ensure the highest standards. He worked in The Birmingham Hand Centre (QE Hospital), the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital covering the whole spectrum of complex hand surgery. To complement his ‘hands-on’ training he successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Hand Surgery.
Research, Education & Publications
Alongside his clinical practice as a Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon in Birmingham, Mr Ross Fawdington has active roles in clinical research, surgical education, examining and postgraduate surgical training.
Research
Mr Fawdington is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham site Principal Investigator for the NIHR-funded PORTRAIT trial (Post-Operative Radiotherapy in Surgically Treated Bone Metastases), a multicentre randomised controlled trial investigating the role of radiotherapy following surgery for metastatic bone disease.
He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed research in hand surgery, upper-limb trauma, fracture fixation and surgical education.
Surgical Education & Examining
Mr Fawdington is an Examiner for the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) Diploma in Hand Surgery, an RCS Accredited Examiner, and a Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He is also a Director of the Major Incident Surgical & Trauma Teams (MISTT) course and has developed and organised cadaveric surgical simulation and anatomy training for orthopaedic surgeons. This educational work subsequently contributed to peer-reviewed research into cadaveric hand-surgery simulation and deliberate-practice training.
Mr Fawdington is a Publishing Editor for OrthOracle and has authored 16 detailed, illustrated surgical techniques. His contributions include techniques for corrective osteotomy of distal radius malunion, complex forearm fracture-dislocations, distal ulna fracture fixation and wrist external fixation.
Textbook & Publications
Mr Fawdington is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) and has published research across hand surgery, upper-limb trauma, fracture fixation and surgical education.
Earlier in his career, he was a co-editor of the 4th edition of Oswestry Orthopaedic Basic Sciences for the FRCS(Orth), a postgraduate textbook for orthopaedic surgeons preparing for the FRCS(Orth) examination.
Specialist Training
Following successful completion of the Foundation Year programme, Mr Fawdington was appointed to specialist run-through Trauma & Orthopaedic surgical training in 2007. He undertook this in the West Midlands and at the world renowned Oswestry orthopaedic hospital.
In 2014 he passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh exams and in 2017, he was added to the GMC’s Specialist Register for Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.
University
In 2000, Mr Fawdington went to the University of Manchester for pre-clinical tuition and then was fortunate to be one of the first cohort of 40 medical students to pilot the clinical years at Keele University and Royal Stoke University Hospital (now called University Hospital of North Midlands). He graduated in 2005 with a Bachelors degree in Medicine and a Bachelors degree in Surgery (MBChB).
