Ivan Brenkel MBChB

Mr Ivan Brenkel was born in South Africa and went to medical school in Cape Town qualifying with an MBChB in 1980. Mr Brenkel came to the UK in 1982 where he did his BST training in Leeds and Ipswich and started as a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon in Fife in 1990. Initially, Mr Brenkel was a general Orthopaedic surgeon but soon specialised in knee, shoulder and trauma surgery. For the last 10 years, he has done complex and revision knee surgery only, as well as doing a trauma list once a week. He now lectures on a regular basis in Japan, China, Australia and India on revision total knees using Metaphyseal sleeves. Mr Brenkel published over 90 papers mainly on prospective database, which he set up in 1995 and was chairman of the Scottish Arthroplasty project for 5 years.