BRUCE C TWADDLE is the Head of Department of Orthopaedics and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at Auckland City Hospital, the Level 1 Trauma Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. He trained in New Zealand at Auckland Medical School and the NZOA Orthopaedic Program and did overseas training in London England, Edinburgh, Oxford, Seattle and London Canada focusing on Trauma and Sports Orthopaedics. He was appointed to Auckland Hospital in 1996 and became the Chief of Trauma one year later. He was a foundation partner of UniSports Orthopaedics, part of New Zealand’s first multidisciplinary sports medicine clinic and has practice Orthopaedic Trauma and Sports Orthopaedics exclusively since. Along the way he has achieved many accolades and accomplishments including being an AAOSM Travelling Fellow to North America and head of AO Trauma education for the Asia Pacific region for six years. He returned to the University of Washington in 2013 for three years as a Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Surgery helping establish the largest multi-disciplinary sports medicine clinic in the Pacific Northwest at the University Campus and to the faculty of the Harborview Medical Centre Trauma service. He came back to Auckland in 2015 to head up the Orthopaedic Trauma service and continue his interest in Sports surgery. Bruce is the current past president of the New Zealand Knee and Sports Surgery Society,.. He has had a long history of involvement in Trauma and Sports education in the Asia Pacific region and has particular interests in tendon injuries, stress fractures, multi-ligamentous knee injuries and complex lower extremity trauma.
