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Mr Thomas' main clinical interests are osteogenesis
imperfecta (brittle bone disease), developmental hip dysplasia,
paediatric/adolescent sports injuries and trauma.
He is well published in the long term
follow-up of developmental hip dysplasia. Other research interests
include Perthes disease, for which he sits on an international
research panel, and surgical treatment of brittle bones. He
is on the teaching faculties for Current Concepts in Paediatric
Orthopaedics (British Society of Children's Orthopaedic Surgeons)
and the precourse meeting of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic
Society. He is Training Program Director for Trauma and
Orthopaedics for the Severn Deanery, overseeing the training of 59
specialist registrars in that region.
Mr Thomas graduated in Medicine in 1992 from the
University of Cambridge and did clinical training at Barts
Hospital, London qualifying in 1995. He specialised in Orthopaedic
Surgery in Oxford (2000-2005). In 2005/6 he undertook 12 months
advanced clinical training at the Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto. He has undertaken further fellowship training in Oxford
(limb reconstruction) and Perth, Australia (adolescent sports
medicine).
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