Mr Bowditch is an experienced knee surgeon specialising in treating all types of knee conditions with both non-operative and surgical techniques. His orthopaedic training took place in Cambridge followed by a specialist knee fellowship at SportsMed SA, Australia before becoming Consultant in 2000. He works with many sportspersons- professional and amateur. He sees patients in the East of England and in London at Fortius.

His particular interests are knee ligament reconstructions (ACL), meniscal/cartilage repair & transplant, osteotomy, partial (uni) and total knee replacement and runs a complex tertiary referral clinic in East of England.

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