Webinar with the Orthopaedic Academy
Orthopaedic management of polytrauma
Mr Peter Bates, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal London Hospital
Target audience: Early years consultants, candidates preparing for the FRCS (Orth) examinations, and trainees who are in their earlier years of training.
Organised jointly by the Orthopaedic Academy and Orthopaedic Research UK
Mr Peter Bates, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal London Hospital
Peter Bates is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, the largest and busiest of the capital’s Major Trauma Centres. He is the Clinical Lead for Orthopaedics and Head of Orthopaedic Trauma at this hospital in addition to being an honorary senior lecturer at the university (QMUL).
Mr Bates’s subspecialty interest is in polytrauma (patients with multiple injuries) and the treatment of pelvic and acetabular fractures.
He is lead faculty for the ‘Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences’ MSc, and is also faculty on the internationally renowned ‘Trauma Sciences’, providing online, distance learning to budding trauma specialists.
Peter trained around North East London with his higher surgical training at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He later participated in 2.5 years of internationally recognised trauma fellowships in Christchurch (NZ), Nottingham (UK) and Dallas (Tx, USA). During Mr Bates’ specialist registrar training, on the RNOH programme, he gained good general exposure and confidence in all aspects of elective and emergency, adult and paediatric orthopaedics.
