Consultant Profile

Mr JT Sam Patton
FRCS(Tr & Orth), FRCSEd, MB ChB
Practising at Spire Murrayfield Hospital

Appointments
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, New Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
Consultant Spire Murrayfield Hospital
Lead Clinician Scottish Sarcoma Network

Sub-specialty
Hip surgery including hip resurfacing
Knee surgery
Joint replacement surgery including revision surgery
Bone and soft tissue tumour surgery
Infection

Professional Bodies
British Hip Society
British Orthopaedic Oncology Society
British Orthopaedic Association
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Research Interests
Clinical outcomes in total knee replacement
Knee replacement in obesity
Management of infected implants
Reconstruction in metastatic disease
3-D modelling in hip implant design

Fellowships
Grenoble, France, 2001
Oncology Service, Birmingham, 2001-2
ABC Travelling fellow to USA and Canada, 2006

Profile
Specialist Orthopaedic Training undertaken in Edinburgh I was appointed to the staff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Murrayfield Hospital in 2003. I am a specialist hip and knee surgeon with particular expertise in difficult joint replacement surgery, and musculo-skeletal oncology surgery.
I live south of Edinburgh with my wife and five children