Andrew Toms studied Medicine at Birmingham University where he was awarded the Sir John Lewis prize for medicine. He started his Orthopaedic and Trauma training immediately at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and followed with a year's under the Professor of Orthopaedics, Auckland, New Zealand.

He completed higher surgical training on the Stoke/Oswestry training rotation and during this period completed a MSc in Engineering from Cardiff University focusing on revision knee replacement. He was subsequently awarded a Smith & Nephew research award in 2003, British Association of Surgery of the Knee Educational Travel award in 2004, Cutner award from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2004, British Orthopaedic Association award in 2004 and the Charnley Trust Foundation Award also in 2004. He completed the Adult Reconstruction Fellowship in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia.

Andrew specialises in surgery of the knee, particularly complex primary total knee replacement and revision knee surgery. He chairs the NHS Revision Knee Group, is Senior Investigator for the Exeter Biomedical Research Centre and theme lead for the Healthtec Research Centre.

His research interests include pain post TKR, periprosthetic joint infection, robotics and alignment in TKR.

Affiliations: Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom / Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

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