Professional Profile

Professor Giddins has been an Orthopaedic and Hand surgeon in Bath since 1995. He trained at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital followed by Orthopaedic and Hand Surgical training in Oxford and London with some overseas training in Hand surgery in Boston, Stockholm and Strasbourg. He achieved the specialist Orthopaedic Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1992 and the European Diploma in Hand Surgery in 1996.

He is privileged to work in a very supportive team of four hand surgeons and four hand therapists as part of one of the strongest Hand surgical teams in the UK. He undertakes a wide range of practice including a full range of elbow, wrist and hand trauma and elective conditions. He has particular interests in the management of common hand injuries, the mechanism and outcome of falls on the wrist, and minimal access surgery for many common elective hand conditions such as finger ganglia, corrective osteotomies and closed fusions. He runs a specialist practice in adult and obstetric brachial plexus injuries, wrist and pathology and rheumatoid arthritis.

Prof. Giddins was President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 2017, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hand Surgery (European) from 2012-2016 and was a Huntarian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2022. He is also is a visiting Professor at The University of Bath.

He continues to teach and has a Post-graduate Certificate in Medical Education.

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Research Interests

He is a visiting professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Bath, where he researches tendon injuries, mechanisms of falling and joint replacement failures. He has an NIHR grant to develop a novel drill guide system. He has developed a novel jig to measure DRUJ instability and is developing jigs to measure instability in other joints.

He has published over 100 research papers, one book, one DVD on injections, 14 book chapters and edited 4 books.

‍Reports undertaken:

Clinical Negligence, Breach of Duty, Liability, Causation,Short Form Reports, Joint Reports, Condition and Prognosis,  Personal Injury,

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Personal Profile

Prof Giddins has 3 adult children one of whom is a doctor. He cycles almost everywhere including occasional stages of the Tour de France, and plays tennis, golf and skis in the winter.