Mr Sam Heaton

Mr Sam Heaton (MSc, FRCS Tr. and Orth) is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sulis Hospital Bath with a specialist interest in hip and knee replacement, primary and revision, surgery. He has expertise in young adult hip surgery and knee surgery using keyhole techniques. Sam is also trained in all aspects of trauma surgery including major trauma and fragility fractures. Sam is an advocate of innovative techniques and offers Mako robotic-arm assisted surgery to his patients. He is able to offer this technologically advance technique for both hip and knee replacement surgery at Sulis Hospital Bath.

He qualified from Kings College London in 2005 and undertook his orthopaedic training on the prestigious Royal London Hospital rotation which includes time at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. He also undertook a masters degree in engineering at Cardiff University during this time. He was entered on to the specialist register in 2015.

Sam subsequently completed a one-year arthroplasty and trauma fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. He then went in on to complete a specialist hip surgery fellowship at the Royal Bournemouth hospital in all aspects of hip surgery, also for one year. In 2017 he was the visiting fellow at R. Cowley Shock Trauma Hospital in Baltimore USA specialising in major trauma.

Sam has presented nationally and internationally numerous times, winning the AO Asia pacific young investigator of the year for his work presented in Cheng Du China. He has published many papers, is a visiting fellow at the Orthopaedic Research Unit at Bournemouth University and teaches trainee surgeons both locally and on national courses.