Miss Amy Garner

Dr Amy Garner is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma surgeon with a sub-specialist interest of partial, total and complex revision surgery of the knee. She works in the internationally respected Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, part of the Royal Devon University Hospitals NHS Trust. Amy also has a busy trauma practise covering the scope of adult and children’s trauma, with a specialist focus on acute knee injuries.

Amy trained as a doctor in Oxford, placing first in the Year 4 Surgical Examinations. She later completed a multi-award winning PhD at Imperial College, London. Her research investigated tissue-preserving knee replacement surgery. Specifically, she questioned whether two smaller ‘partial’ knee replacements could be used in different areas of the arthritic knee, preserving the remaining healthy bone, cartilage and important ligaments. Amy compared the function and biomechanics of these knee replacement constructs to ‘total knee replacement’, which traditionally requires removal of all cartilage in the knee, and the all important anterior cruciate ligament.

Prizes and Awards: 

• British Association of Surgery of the Knee ‘Best Free Paper’ Annual Conference £1000. May 2021 

• Sam Simmond’s Regional Meeting Prize For “First place podium presentation”. May 2021

• International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty Young Investigator Scholarship, for highly scoring conference abstract. $500. Sept 2019

• British Orthopaedic Research Society / Bone & Joint Research ‘2019 New Investigator Award’ for conference abstract. £500. Aug 2019

• European Knee Society Arthroplasty Conference ‘Best Free Paper’ for Podium Presentation, Valencia, Spain. > 500 submitted abstracts, 80 podium presentations. Prize worth £250. April 2019

• British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK) Annual Congress ePoster Prize for best podium with ePoster presentation. £500. March 2019

• Highest Rated Early Career Researcher. IMechE – Engineering the Knee Conference. Dec 2018

Travelling Fellowships

Dr Garner was a 2019 ESSKA/EKA Travelling Fellow. She travelled throughout Europe visiting a number of prestigious institutions to observe and learn advanced soft-tissue knee surgery, arthroplasty and multi-level complex osteotomy techniques

Dr Garner was a 2020 Bone & Joint Research / British Orthopaedic Research Society Travelling Fellow visiting specialist hospitals and universities throughout the East Coast of America, Canada, Phoenix and Denver. Here she spent time with world-leading hip and knee surgeons, scientists and biomechanics engineers. Grants and Awards

Dr Garner's research has been generously supported by the following organisations:

•  NIHR Exeter BRC: (£100,000) 2025 - 2027

• Sir Michael Uren foundation (£150,000). 2017 - 2021

• Dunhill Medical Trust and Royal College of Surgeons of England joint clinical research fellowship £256,000. 2018 - 2021.

• 2018 - 2020 ZimmerBiomet: the biomechanics of partial knee replacement. £130,000. 2018 - 2020

• Smith & Nephew Gait Analysis of the Journey II BCS. £112,000. 2018 - 2021