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Mr James Berwin

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

BSc (Hons), MBBS, FRCS (Tr+Orth), PGDip (BOOS), PGCert (HPE)

Mr James Berwin is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon specialising in Hip and Knee arthroplasty, Revision arthroplasty, Young Adult Hip surgery and Metastatic Bone Disease. 

After qualifying from Barts & The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, with Distinction in Clinical Practice, Mr Berwin completed his Core Surgical Training in London including rotations at Chelsea & Westminster and Guy’s and St Thomas’. He completed his specialist orthopaedic training in Severn Deanery in Southwest England. 

Mr Berwin is triple fellowship trained. He spent a year at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Stanmore, specialising in Young Adult Hip surgery as patients transition from adolescence to young adults. This included managing patients with complex hip pathology such as hip dysplasia, Perthes disease and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Mr Berwin gained expertise in hip preservation techniques including hip arthroscopy. 

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He then spent a year at the prestigious Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital, Sydney, Australia, in which he gained a wealth of experience in routine and complex hip and knee arthroplasty for conditions such as osteoarthritis, Revision (re-do) arthroplasty and tumour work as the RPA was the state-wide referral centre for musculoskeletal tumours. He also gained accreditation to perform MAKO robotic and navigation assisted surgery. 

After returning from Australia, Mr Berwin completed his final year of fellowship at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, focussing on complex hip arthroplasty including acetabular reconstruction, revision surgery and the management periprosthetic fractures i.e. fractures around hip and knee replacements. Mr Berwin is particularly passionate about the management of prosthetic joint infection (PJI). At Southmead he led a project to improve the safety and efficacy of single stage revisions for infected hip replacements. 

Mr Berwin is widely published in the field of orthopaedics. He was the principal investigator of an NIHR portfolio project to investigate and improve recovery after surgery for hip fractures. He has also contributed book chapters on hip arthroplasty as well as a book on orthopaedic biomechanics. Mr Berwin has a post graduate diploma from the British Society of Orthopaedic Oncology (BOOS), enabling him to provide the latest evidence base to aid decision making in complex tumour cases. 

Alongside his clinical work, Mr Berwin established a teaching partnership with a hospital in Bahir Dar, Northern Ethiopia, and is collaborating with Harvard Global Orthopaedics and the Ethiopian ministry of Health to improve trauma care systems in Ethiopia.
Mr Berwin’s regular trauma and elective NHS practice is based at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He is committed to delivering the best possible holistic care that is tailored the individual needs of his patients. 

Mr Berwin lives in Bristol with his wife, also a surgeon, and their two girls. He enjoys the Bristol and Bath food scene and in his spare time keeps active by swimming and running. Over the years he has participated in a number of triathlons, albeit at an amateur level.

When on holiday he enjoys skiing and diving. 

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. 

  •  Young adult hip conditions.
  • Hip preservation surgery.
  • Adult hip conditions.
  • Total Hip replacement surgery.
  • Total Knee replacement surgery.
  • MAKO and navigated joint replacement surgery.
  • Metastatic bone disease.
  • Revision surgery for failed hip replacements.
  • Revision surgery for failed knee replacements.
  • Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI).
  • Trauma.
  • Periprosthetic fractures.

British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
British Hip Society (BHS)
World Orthopaedic Concern (WOC-UK)

2023 Post Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education (PGDip HPE) with Merit. University of Bristol.

2022 Postgraduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Oncology. British Orthopaedic Oncology Society (BOOS).

2021 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Trauma & Orthopaedics (FRCS Tr + Orth). Royal College of Surgeons, England.

2012 Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS). Royal College of Surgeons, England.

2011 MBBS with Distinction in Clinical Practice. Barts & The London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London.

2010 First Class Intercalated BSc (with Honours) in Experimental Pathology. Barts & The London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London.

POSTGRADUATE AWARDS
2016        Podium Presentation Prize. Annual East Anglia Orthopaedic Club (EAOC) meeting.
2014        Imperial College Teaching Hero Award. Imperial College London. 
2013        Excellence in Leadership Award. North Central Thames Foundation School.
2012        Outstanding Contribution Merit Award. North Central Thames Foundation School.

UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
2011     Student Association Award. Barts & The London. 
2011    Full University Rugby Colours. Barts & The London RFC.
2008        Professor Harold Ellis Medical Student Prize Finalist. Royal College of Surgeons, England.

Books and Book Chapters

1.    Oxford Handbook of Trauma and Orthopaedics. Chapter 8: Global Orthopaedics. Oxford University Press. JT Berwin, C Lavy, N. C. Mkandawire. ISBN: 9780198738657.

2.    Total Hip Arthroplasty: Procedures and Potential Complications. Chapter 17: Total hip arthroplasty for neck of femur fractures. Nova Publishing. JT Berwin, RP Baker. ISBN: 978-1-68507-146-2.

3.    Co-editor of the Journal of the Bristol Orthopaedic Registrar Group (JBORG). 9th Edition. JT Berwin, A Kiszely.

4.    Biomechanics; A Trainees Guide. Nova Publishing. JT Berwin, et al. ISBN: 978-1-53612-877-2.

5.    Abdominal Injuries: Risk Factors, Management and Prognosis. Chapter 3: Pelvic Trauma. Nova Publishing. JT Berwin, et al, B Patel. ISBN: 978-1-63482-590-0.

Publications:

1.    Long-term patient-centred outcomes of periacetabular osteotomy in a large consecutive series. JT Berwin, S Duffy, MR Gargan, J Barnes. Bone Jt Open. 2023 Dec 19;4(12):964-969.

2.    Virtual reality in linked orthopaedic training in Ethiopia. M Lyons, JT Berwin, S Thomas. RCS Annals. 2022 September; DOI: 10.1308/rcsbull.TB2022.13. 

3.    Knife before wife, or so they say. JT Berwin. JTO. 2022 Mar; 10(01) 30-33. .

4.    Managing polytrauma patients. JT Berwin, O. Pearce, L. Harries, M. Kelly. Injury. 2020 Oct;51(10):2091-2096. PMID: 32758368.

5.    The "FCR" approach to the knee for the management of posterior tibial plateau fractures.  JT Berwin, RL Donovan, A Riddick, MB Kelly. J Orthop Trauma. 2020 Jun;34(6):e221-e224. PMID: 31821275.

6.    Using a wearable activity monitor to accurately measure Mobility After Surgery for Hip fractures (MASH) – a feasibility study protocol. JT Berwin, H Macdonald, T Fleming, P Kempshall, D Engelke. Journal of Orthopaedics. Geriatr Orthop Surg Rehabil. 2020; 11: 2151459320964086. PMID: 33240556

7.    Injection versus decompression for carpal tunnel syndrome (INDICATE): Feasibility trial.      JT Berwin, C Cooper, W Mason. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2020 Jun 5;1753193420929249. PMID: 32501127

8.    Attitudes towards orthopaedic volunteering in low-resource settings: a national survey of trainees and training programme directors. JT Berwin, V Bucknall, M Brown, D Bose. RCS Annals Journal. 2020 March; DOI: 10.1308/rcsbull.2020.1

9.    An audit of the delivery of paediatric orthopaedic services at the Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital in response to the British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma (BOAST) COVID-19 guidance. JT Berwin, M Singh, C Carpenter, T Knapper, S Crosswell, J Kendall, S Thomas, F Monsell. TJTO&C. 

10.    The British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA) National “Lost Tribe Audit Project”. Lost Tribe Collaborators. BJJ Procs November 2016.

11.    Plantar Loading Forces While Walking in a Below-Knee Cast With an Attached Loadbearing Frame. JT Berwin, T Burton, J Taylor, AH McGregor, A Roche. Foot Ankle Int. 2015 Jun;36(6):722-9; PMID: 25712122.

12.    Pain in Extracorporeal shock wave Lithotripsy. JT Berwin, T El-Husseiny, AG Papatoris, et al. Urol Res 2009; 37(2):51-3; PMID: 19183979.

13.    Outcomes of Implementation of an Acute General Surgical Service. RE D’souza, S Alagaratnam, JT Berwin, et al. Journal of ASGBI 2012; 36(3):16-1