Doctor of Medicine Thesis , Artificial Intelligence

Mr Christopher Oliver BSc (Hons), MB. BS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Tr and Orth), FRCS (Ed), FRCP (Edin), DMI RCSEd, DM is a specialist Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at The New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France in Scotland. His specialist interest is upper limb problems especially involving the hand and elbow. The Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit in which he works is one of the busiest in the United Kingdom. He is responsible for the supervision and training of specialist orthopaedic trainees and visiting overseas trainees. The unit is almost unique amongst the world's major trauma units in that it is the only trauma unit serving a population of about 900,000 people. The unit admits about 6,000 patients per year and undertakes about 5,500 surgical operations and 43,000 outpatients are seen on an annual basis. Approximately 40% of the workload concerns fractures in the elderly with proximal femoral fractures accounting for just fewer than 20% of all admissions. The unit specialises in the complex reconstruction surgery of severe long-bone fractures, open fractures or multiple fractures. Chris Oliver spends at least one day a week in theatre, conducting trauma operations, normally emergencies, and a further half day every week performing more routine emergency reconstructive surgery. Most of his routine operating timetable involves surgery of the upper limb joints, with a large number of complex cases of hand trauma. He has a special interest in hand sports injuries, scaphoid fractures, carpal tunnel syndrome, carpal instability, wrist pain, chronic upper limb regional pain syndrome, Dupuytren's Disease and ganglions. The remainder of his week is spent in outpatient clinics, in carrying out training and teaching commitments and participating in an on-call rota for emergency work. Chris Oliver has been in medico-legal practice since 1995. His medical legal practice is now almost extensively concerned with hand and elbow problems. He is a member of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and is a refereed expert by the Law Society of Scotland. He prepares reports for the pursuer (60%), defence (30%) and medical negligence (10%). Chris Oliver is a Member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2002-2007). He is Co-Convener of Examinations for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2007-2010). He is member of Intercollegiate Board of Basic Surgical Examinations (ICBSE). He is a member of Postgraduate Medical Education Training Board (PMETB) - Assessment Working Group. He was a member of Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Council (2005-2006).