Bristol Hip & Knee Clinic®



Mr Oliver S. Schindler is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Bristol Hip & Knee Clinic, specializing in the treatment of hip and knee disorders. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Edinburgh and the Royal College of England. He is holder of a PhD in Sports Medicine and an elected member of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine. He is actively involved in numerous national and international orthopaedic societies and on the review board of a number of international medical journals including The British Medical Journal, The Knee, and Clinical Orthopaedics Related Research. He graduated in 1991 with a BSc(Hons) degree, and completed his residency programme in Switzerland in 1993.

Between 1993 and 1999 he trained at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. After passing the Intercollegiate Fellowship Examination in Trauma & Orthopaedics in 1999 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the North Bristol NHS Trust.

He is fellowship trained in lower limb arthroplasty and sports traumatology, having spent six months in Melbourne and Sydney in 2001. This was followed by a fellowship in reconstructive knee surgery at the Ilizarov Scientific Centre in Russia between May and July 2002.

During his career Oliver Schindler was presented with a number of awards. This included the ASG Travelling Fellowship, awarded jointly by the American and British Orthopaedic Association in 2005, the Insall Travelling Fellowship awarded by the American Knee Society in 2007 and more recently the AAOS Best Poster Award in Adult Reconstructive Surgery bestowed to him by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons during their annual convention in Orlando in 2016.