Prof Bruce Twaddle is a product of the University of Auckland Medical School and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Training Program.  He is currently the Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at Auckland City Hospital and a partner at UniSports Orthopaedics based at the University of Auckland Sports Hub.  He has had a distinguished career in the care of the multiply injured patient and the injured athlete as well as being a world recognized educator and teacher.

His post qualification medical training took him to Long Beach Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.  Once he had completed his surgical training he received fellowship training with Barry Tietjens, the father of Orthopaedics Sports surgery in Auckland, in the one of the world’s busiest trauma units at Harborview Medical Centre in Seattle, Washington and then at the world-famous Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine clinic in London, Ontario.  He returned to New Zealand as a Trauma and Sports Injury specialist based in Auckland and quickly became the Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at New Zealand’s only Level One Trauma Centre at Auckland Hospital and help established New Zealand’s first multi-disciplinary sports medicine clinic at the Adidas sports medicine centre. From 2008 to 2012 he coordinated the trauma education for the AO foundation, the world’s pre-eminent trauma education organization for the Asia-Pacific region as the Chairman of Education for Asia-Pacific, a challenge that encompassed establishing appropriate practical courses and teaching for a diverse range of cultures and countries in the world’s largest and most rapidly changing region.  As part of this he was responsible for the organization and running of over 120 hands-on courses.  Professor Twaddle served on the Council of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association’s Executive Board and the New Zealand Sports Medicine Federation’s Council. 

In 2013 returned to Seattle to help set up that city’s largest multi-disciplinary sports medicine clinic at the University of Washington and take over the care of the major soft tissue joint dislocations and injuries at Harborview Medical Centre as the Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.  He reorganized the care of the college athlete sports medicine program and established the busiest knee dislocation acute surgical care practice in North America. After three years, he returned to New Zealand in his current roles at Auckland Hospital and UniSports Orthopaedics.

His efforts to maintain and fight for the care of patients at Auckland City Hospital culminated in him being honoured as the Auckland Herald’s New Zealander of the Year in 2003. His diverse education and experience gives him a unique perspective on medicine throughout the world and where we sit in this ever-changing landscape.