Mr Mark Bowditch

About Mr Mark Bowditch

Mr Bowditch is an experienced knee surgeon specialising in both operative and non-operative management of knee conditions. His orthopaedic training took place in Cambridge, followed by a specialist knee fellowship at SportsMed SA in Australia, before achieving Consultant status in 2000. He works extensively with professional and amateur athletes and maintains practices in East England and London at Fortius. He currently serves as President of the British Orthopaedic Association, is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Director of Musculo-Skeletal/Special Surgery at East Suffolk North Essex Foundation Trust, and Head of the School of Surgery for Health Education England East of England, Cambridge.

Qualifications: BSc(Hons) MB ChB FRCS FRCS (Tr&Orth)

Recent and current appointments

• President of British Orthopaedic Association
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon East Suffolk North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
• Director of Musculo-Skeletal/Special surgery ESNEFT (Ipswich/Colchester)
• Head of School of Surgery HEE East of England, Cambridge
• Chair Specialty Advisory Committee (Joint Royal Surgical Colleges UK/Eire) Trauma & Orthopaedics (Leads on all aspects retraining of future orthopaedic surgeons)
• British Orthopaedic Association Council trustee
• Past President of Cambridge Orthopaedic Club

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Variety of publications on knee surgery and surgical education
• Lectures on basic science, knee conditions & safe appropriate surgery to wide audiences
• Leader in education & surgical training/ rewritten the postgraduate orthopaedic training curriculum

Society memberships

• British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
• British Orthopaedic Association
• Royal College of Surgeons (England and Edinburgh)
• British Orthopaedic Study Group
• European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy (ESSKA)
• Faculty of medical leadership & management