Mr Gavin Bowden BSc (Hon) MBBCh FCS (SA)(Orth)
Title: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Chairman Oxford Clinic for Specialist Surgery
Speciality: Spinal Surgery
Specialist Interests: All aspects of spinal surgery including microdiscectomy, spinal decompression, spinal fusion, spinal deformity correction and tumour surgery.
General Information:
Mr Gavin Bowden is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust and the John Radcliffe Hospital, a position held since 2000. His main clinical interests are in spinal surgery especially the management of degenerative disorders, deformity and tumours of the spine. His major research interest is the design of implants for minimally invasive spinal surgery and basic science interests include the physiology of the growing spine.
He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Worcester College.
Mr Bowden graduated in Medicine in 1986 from the University of the Witwatersrand and was awarded the Gencor Prize. He then specialised in Orthopaedic Surgery in Cape Town. In 1995 he was awarded the Synthes Prize by the University of Cape Town and the Edelstein Medal (awarded to the outstanding candidate in the Orthopaedic Fellowship Examination) by the College of Surgeons of South Africa. Between 1996 and 2000 Mr Bowden was the Nuffield Orthopaedic Scholar and Clinical Research Fellow for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford.
Outside of his professional commitments Mr Bowden led the founding of the Oxford Clinic for Specialist Surgery. In his free time he enjoys fly fishing, music and photography.
Mr Gavin Bowden
General Medical Council
GMC Number: 4125109
Secretary: Mrs Mandy O’Sullivan
Tel: 01865 228885
Fax: 01865 744455
mosullivan@oxfordclinic.org.uk
Monday - am
Other times available as required
Consultation address
St Lukes Hospital
Latimer Road
Headington
Oxford OX3 7PF
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