sheffield orthopaedics ltd

Chris Blundell:

Foot & ankle surgery

SOP: Mr Wassim Tomouk

Chris Blundell specialises exclusively in adult foot and ankle conditions. He carried out two fellowships in foot and ankle surgery in Melbourne, Australia in 2001/2. He was awarded an MD for research into foot pressures. Chris is a Sheffield graduate whose higher surgical training was in Cambridge and Norwich.

Chris Blundell was born in London, and raised in Reading before studying medicine at Sheffield University. Halfway through his medical degree Chris did a BMedSci degree in Orthopaedic Bioengineering, one year later with a First Class Honours Award he decided that Orthopaedics was for him.

To this end he stayed in Sheffield for house jobs and then broadened his horizons with Higher Surgical Training on the Cambridge Scheme. Three of his HST years were spent at The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital where much of his skills were learnt. Whilst there he carried out a Doctorate in Medicine Degree and was the first to do so from The Orthopaedic Department at The N+N. This required a lot of trail blazing administratively aswell as scientifically. Chris spent a year in Melbourne doing two six month foot and ankle fellowships, one in sports and general foot and ankle, and one foot and ankle as part of a large private practice group (Melbourne Orthopaedic Group) where Andy Hamer had gone some years before.

Chris returned to Addenbrookes’ Hospital in Cambridge and was appointed consultant at The Northern General Hospital in Sheffield in 2002. He is the clinical lead for the Sheffield Foot and Ankle Unit. He is currently actively pursuing some new research ideas.