Mr Oliver Schindler

Mr Oliver S. Schindler is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Bristol Hip & Knee Clinic. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh and holder of a PhD in Sports Medicine. Mr Schindler is an elected member of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine, the British Hip Society, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, the Girdlestone Orthopaedic Society of Oxford and the Seddon Society of Stanmore. In addition to being actively involved with a number of other national and international orthopaedic societies he also acts as a journal reviewer for some international medical journals including The British Medical Journal, The Knee, Knee Surgery & Sports Traumatology and Clinical Orthopaedics Related Research. He graduated in 1991 with a BSc(Hons) degree, and completed his internship and the first years of his residency programme in Switzerland. Between 1993 and 1999 he trained at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. After passing the Intercollegiate Fellowship Examination in Trauma & Orthopaedics in 1999 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the North Bristol NHS Trust. He is fellowship trained in lower limb arthroplasty and sports traumatology, having spent six months in Melbourne and Sydney in 2001. This was followed by a fellowship in reconstructive knee surgery at the Ilizarov Scientific Centre in Russia between May and July 2002. In addition to his UK qualifications he is also holder of specialist medical diplomas from the Austrian Medical Society in Vienna and the Swiss Medical Society in Berne. During his career Oliver Schindler was presented with a number of awards. This included the ASG Travelling Fellowship, awarded jointly by the American and British Orthopaedic Associations in 2005, and the Insall Travelling Fellowship awarded by the American Knee Society in 2007.