Dr. Christopher William Oliver

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University of Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
Orthopaedic Surgery
SurgeonAppointed: 1997
University of Edinburgh
Orthopaedics
Senior LecturerAppointed: 1997
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Mailing Address

Room F6341
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France
Old Dalkeith Road
Edinburgh, EH16 4SU
United Kingdom

Contact Information

Phone: 0044 131 242 3402
cwoliver@btopenworld.com
http://orthodoc.aaos.org/chrisoliver/

Qualifications

DMI RCSEd, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Medical Informatics, 2002.
F.R.C.P. (Ed), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Medicine, 2001.
F.R.C.S. (Ed), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgery, 1998.
M.D., University College London, Back Pain/Artificial Intelligence, 1995.
FRCS (Tr & Orth), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, 1995.
F.R.C.S. (Eng), Royal College of Surgeons of England, Surgery, 1989.
M.B.B.S., University College London, Medicine and Surgery, 1985.
B.Sc., University College London, Physiology, 1981.

Expertise and Research Interests

He is a full-time consultant orthopaedic traumatologist, at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in Scotland. He is also an Part-Time Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics at Edinburgh University and has a special interest in traumatic upper limb injuries. He trained in surgery in London, Yorkshire, Oswestry, Stoke-on-Trent, Seattle and Oxford. As a consultant surgeon he is very unusual as he can write computer code. His Doctorate of Medicine Thesis was in Artificial Intelligence and contributed to his early use and understanding of the Internet.

He was featured as a national role model for Medical Informatics in Career Focus, British Medical Journal 12 December 1998 2-3.

He is editor of "He@lth Information on the Internet" published by The Royal Society of Medicine.

As a consultant surgeon he is very unusual as he can write computer code. His Doctorate of Medicine Thesis was in Artificial Intelligence and contributed to his early use and understanding of the Internet.

His Internet activity has been focused on helping surgeons communicate on a global basis. He established the Orthopod International mailing list in 1997, which has had a total of over 3000 members in the last two and a half years. He developed quality websites for British Orthopaedic Association. He was chief editor of Orthogate in its early stages of evolution. He developed the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Faculty of Medical Informatics as the first Director of the RCSEd Faculty of Medical Informatics.

He has written extensively on the surgical Internet especially in relation to quality of information, coping with information overload, efficacy of Internet search engines and ways of marketing the surgical Internet.

He realises that great care needs to be taken in handling the large body of information technology illiterate surgeons and doctors around the world. Security, ownership, confidentiality,data protection is very poorly understood by most doctors.

His Internet activities have increasing been drawn to North America. He is now Internet advisor to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons which has an extensive medical education portfolio. He has now has moved his Internet activities to working with Medscape Orthopaedics as Orthopaedics Web Site Section Editor.

Other Expertise

I have expertise in medical negligence and personal injury work involving the musculoskeletal system including sports injuries; road traffic and industrial accidents. In my clinical practice I specialise in fractures; hand and upper limb injuries; whiplash; back pain and repetitive strain injury.

Future Research

Telemedicine, digital imaging, multimedia webcast


Industrial Relevance

Application of Internet technologies to medical and surgical education

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Medical Informatics, Orthopedics, Surgery, Telemedicine, Trauma.

Additional Terms:

Medical Informatics, Orthopaedic Surgery, Trauma Surgery.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

British Orthopaedic Association
British Orthopaedic Research Society
Orthopaedic Trauma Association

Publications

  • Fraser-Moodie J, Oliver CW (Sep 2006) Problems with digital imaging in trauma., Injury, 37 (9), 803-5 Abstract
  • Spielmann PM, Oliver CW, The Carpal Bones: a Basic Test of Medical Students' and Junior Doctors' Knowledge of Anatomy., The Surgeon : Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland., 3(4), 257-9, Aug 2005 Abstract
  • Simpson P, Oliver CW, Searching the internet for orthopaedic knowledge, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume, 86(8), 1105-7, Nov 2004 Abstract
  • Oliver CW, Burke C, Hip fractures in centenarians, Injury, 35(10), 1025-30, Oct 2004 Abstract
  • Wade FA, Oliver CW, Living with digital imaging, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 25-8, April 2004 Abstract
  • Wakelin SJ, Oliver CW, Kaufman MH, Hip disarticulation--the evolution of a surgical technique, Injury, 35(3), 299-308, March 2004 Abstract
  • Clough JF, Oliver CW, Orthopaedics, networks and computers, Journal of Bone and Joint surgery. British Volume, 84(4), 481-5, May 2002 Abstract
  • Wakelin S, Oliver CW, How should orthopaedic surgeons respond to unsolicited e-mail?, Journal of Bone and Joint surgery. British Volume, 83(4), 482-5, May 2001 Abstract
  • Wade FA, Oliver CW, McBride K, Digital imaging in trauma and orthopaedic surgery: is it worth it?, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume, 82(6), 791-4, August 2000 Abstract
  • Mehdi SA, Dunlop DG, Oliver CW, 'Uneasy lies the hand in which rests the crown' an unusual foreign body following a punch injury, Journal of Hand Surgery (edinburgh, Lothian), 25(2), 221-2, April 2000 Abstract
  • Oliver C, Automatic replies can be sent to unsolicited email from general public, Bmj : British Medical Association, 319(7222), 1433, November 1999 Abstract
  • Oliver C, Wallace A, Re: How to cope with unsolicited email from the general public seeking medical advice, Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 44(4), 278, August 1999 Abstract
  • Cool P, Morgan-Jones RL, Oliver CW, Richardson JB, The audit of orthopaedic trainee teaching improves supervision rates, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 81(3), 195-7, May 1999 Abstract
  • Ndukwe AU, Eaton C, Oliver CW, The Mailbase hand surgery electronic mailing list, Journal of Hand Surgery. British Volume, 24(2), 145-7, April 1999 Abstract
  • McLauchlan GJ, Cadogan M, Oliver CW, Assessment of an electronic mailing list for orthopaedic and trauma surgery, Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 44(1), 36-9, February 1999 Abstract
  • Oliver CW, Trauma and orthopaedic surgery on the Internet, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume, 81(1), 3-6, Jan 1999 Abstract
  • Branfoot T, Oliver CW, A review of the quality of trauma protocols on the Internet, Injury, 30(1), 1-7, Jan 1999 Abstract
  • Doyle P, Oliver CW, Complex floating knee; trifocal tibial and ipsilateral femoral fracture, Injury, 29(7), 553-5, September 1998 Abstract
  • Oliver CW, The orthopod e-mail list, Injury, 29(7), 491-2, September 1998 Abstract
  • Greenough CG, Oliver CW, Jones AP, Assessment of spinal musculature using surface electromyographic spectral color mapping, Spine, 23(16), 1768-74, August 1998 Abstract
  • Wanders L, Oliver CW, Fibular malreduction in AO/Weber type C ankle fractures, Injury, 29(2), 144-6, March 1998 Abstract
  • Chapman-Sheath PJ, Clasper J, Oliver CW, A fail-safe method of inserting end caps into intramedullary nails, Injury, 28(9-10), 715-6, 1997 Abstract
  • Oliver CW, Twaddle B, Agel J, Routt ML Jr, Outcome after pelvic ring fractures: evaluation using the medical outcomes short form SF-36, Injury, 27(9), 635-41, November 1996 Abstract

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