Mr Bruce Summers

NHS

01691 404662

Mr Summers' clinical interests include spinal pain.

MB BS Middlesex Hospital, University of London FRCS England BA (Hons) Humanities MA MedEd, University of Keele

• Appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford in 1989
• Appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic and Spinal Specialist at RJAH in 2018
• Senior Lecturer at the University of Keele Medical School
• Lead tutor for Medical Humanities University of Keele Medical School

• Spinal Disorders

Royal College of Surgeons, British Association of Spinal Surgeons, British Medical Association

Undergraduate Medical Education and Medical Humanities.

Mr Summers' was appointed a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgeon at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford in 1989. He retired from operative spinal surgery in 2017 but continued non-operative management of patients with spinal pain. In 2018, he was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spinal Specialist at RJAH and is part of a large team of spinal surgeons and other spinal specialists. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Keele Medical School teaching orthopaedic and musculoskeletal medicine to medical students. He is also lead tutor for Medical Humanities at the Medical School and devises and organises seminars for medical students in many artistic disciplines including poetry, the visual arts, theatre and cinema. This being an attempt to remind students that patients are human beings as well as an interesting mixture of symptoms and physical signs.