Mr Thomas Ward

BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PGCert (Dist)

ST6 (OOPR)

Interested Subspecialty: Orthopaedic Oncology and Arthroplasty

Bio

Also known as ‘Matron’ I am one of the ST6 trainees in the region and this year have been fortunate to be on the LOTA committee. One of the great things about being a trainee in the East Mids South is that I have been able to meet so many great people that I can not only call my colleagues but also my friends. One highlight of training so far was travelling to Gondar Ethiopia with some fellow colleagues and experiencing orthopaedics in another part of the world (although this did mean I missed my wife’s 30th birthday of which she still hasn’t let me live it down). Outside of work I love spending time with family and friends, I was previously a keen martial artist and have a black belt 1st Dan in Shotokan Karate, but I am far too old for that now and my current hobbies include skiing and knitting. I love dogs and if anyone needs a dog sitter you know where I am!

Publications

Ward TRW, Ashford RU, Eastley NC. Current management of Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumours of the knee in the United Kingdom. Knee. 2025 Oct;56:407-414. doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2025.06.006. Epub 2025 Jul 5. PMID: 40618551.
Thomas Robert William Ward, Nicholas Eastley, Benign and intermediate soft tissue tumours for trauma and orthopaedic exam candidates, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Volume 39, Issue 3, 2025, Pages 138-143, ISSN 1877-1327
Ward TRW, Boksh K, Airey G, Myatt D, Aamir J, Chapman J, Kyaw H, Jeyaseelan L, Greasley L, Drummond I, Elbannan M, Tanaka H, Mangwani J, Mason L. Lateral column midfoot injury: Do they all need fixation? J Orthop. 2024 Oct 9;62:22-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2024.10.010. PMID: 39502676; PMCID: PMC11532135.
Gomindes A R, Adeeko E S, Khatri C, Ahmed I, Sehdev S, Carlos W J, Ward T, Leverington J, Debenham L, Metcalfe A, Ward J (September 25, 2023) Use of Virtual Reality in the Education of Orthopaedic Procedures: A Randomised Control Study in Early Validation of a Novel Virtual Reality Simulator. Cureus 15(9): e45943. doi:10.7759/cureus.45943 PMID: 37885489
Ward TRW, Eastley NC, Sheikh N, Ashford RU. Intralesional leiomyosarcoma malignant transformation from a biopsied benign angioleiomyoma of the proximal anterior tibia. BMJ Case Rep. 2024 May 22;17(5):e259887. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2024-259887. PMID: 38782435.
Ward TRW, Garala K, Dos Remedios I, Lim J. Piriformis syndrome as a result of intramuscular haematoma mimicking cauda equina effectively treated with piriformis tendon release BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Mar 2. PMID: 35236695
Ward TRW, Garala K, Riemer B. Failure of dual plating in a complex open distal femur fracture as the result of major trauma. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Dec 1. PMID: 34853043.
Ward TRW, Sahemey R, Sneath R, Solanki S. Lumbar disc sequestration through the dura into the intrathecal space presenting as acute cauda equina. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 May 5. PMID: 33952569
Shi N, Zhang X, Zhu Y, Deng L, Li L, Zhu P, Xia L, Jin T, Ward T, Sztamary P, Cai W, Yao L, Yang X, Lin Z, Jiang K, Guo J, Yang X, Singh VK, Sutton R, Lu N, Windsor JA, He W, Huang W, Xia Q. Predicting persistent organ failure on admission in patients with acute pancreatitis: development and validation of a mobile nomogram. HPB (Oxford). 2022 Jun 6 PMID: 35750613.
Shi, N.; Lan, L.; Luo, J.; Zhu, P.; Ward, T.R.W.; Szatmary, P.; Sutton, R.; Huang, W.; Windsor, J.A.; Zhou, X.; et al. Predicting the Need for Therapeutic Intervention and Mortality in Acute Pancreatitis: A Two-Center International Study Using Machine Learning. J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12, 616. PMID: 35455733