Dr Phillip Walmsley
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Teaching
ScotGEM Agents of Change
MD4000
MD4002
Research areas
I am a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the National Treatment Centre, Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy, with a specialist interest in complex knee surgery. Alongside my clinical practice, I am a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews.
My medical degree was completed at the University of Manchester, followed by surgical training in the North-West of England and Higher Surgical Training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in Edinburgh. Following CCT, further fellowship training in sports knee surgery and revision lower limb arthroplasty took me to centres of excellence in Edinburgh, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2018, I was selected for the prestigious ABC Travelling Fellowship to North America.
From 2017 to 2025, I served as Associate Postgraduate Dean (Quality) with NHS Education for Scotland. I also hold an MD in Orthopaedic Surgery from the University of St Andrews, where my doctoral research examined outcomes and survival following total knee replacement.
My current research interests include using routinely collected health data to improve outcomes in lower limb arthroplasty, rapid diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, management of bone loss in revision knee surgery, and advancing both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
PhD supervision
- John Bayram
- Isabelle Cochrane
- Conor McCann
- Scott Morrison
- Stuart Reid
Selected publications
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Agents of change: preparing Scotland’s future doctors to lead health system transformation
Flynn, A., O'Malley, A., Stuart, J., Millar, A., Walmsley, P. & Denvir, L., 23 Oct 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Open access
A novel approach for tissue analysis in joint infections using the Scattered Light Integrating Collector (SLIC)
Assaf, E., Amerschläger, C. F., Nessler, V. B., Ali, K., Ossendorff, R., Jaenisch, M., Strauss, A. C., Burger, C., Hischebeth, G. T., Walmsley, P. J., Wirtz, D. C., Hammond, R. J. H., Bertheloot, D. & Schildberg, F. A., 4 Dec 2025, In: Biosensors. 15, 12, p. 1-15 15 p., 795.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Are current patient-reported outcome measures fit for purpose to evaluate unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?
Bayram, J. M., Clement, N. D., Hall, A. J., Walmsley, P. & Clarke, J. V., 2 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14, 1, 14 p., 203.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Open access
Development of a minimum checklist to assess the quality of evidence produced using registry data for the evaluation of medical device safety and performance
Hoogervorst, L. A., Nelissen, R. G. H. H., Melvin, T., Piscoi, P., Wilkinson, C., Lubbeke, A., Gale, C. P., Epstein, D., Overgaard, S., Walmsley, P., Szymanski, P., Mohaddes, M., O’Connor, D. B., Geertsma, R. E., Hoebert, J. M., Fraser, A. G., Marang-van de Mheen, P. J. & CORE-MD study group, 29 Oct 2025, In: BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies. 7, 1, p. 1-10 10 p., e000364.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Factors influencing UK arthroplasty surgeons' decision-making between total and medial unicompartmental knee surgery: A vignette-based behavioural experiment
UNITES Consortium, 10 Oct 2025, In: Journal of experimental orthopaedics. 12, 1, p. e70178Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Novel method for the rapid establishment of antibiotic susceptibility profiles in bacterial strains linked to musculoskeletal infections using Scattered Light Integrated Collector technology
Bertheloot, D., Nessler, V. B., Assaf, E., Amerschläger, C. F., Ali, K., Ossendorff, R., Jaenisch, M., Strauss, A. C., Burger, C., Walmsley, P. J., Hischebeth, G. T., Wirtz, D. C., Hammond, R. J. H. & Schildberg, F. A., 12 Feb 2025, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26, 4, 14 p., 1553.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Step 1: the Scottish Trauma & Orthopaedics Equality Project demographics and working patterns of a national workforce
Jabbal, M., Cherry, J., Eastwood, D., Scott, C. E. H., Walmsley, P. & Baird, E., 21 Jan 2025, In: Bone & Joint Open. 6, 1, p. 103-108 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The Clinical Frailty Scale is a valid and independent predictor of one-year survival in patients sustaining a hip fracture: scottish Hip Fracture Audit data from 8,092 patients
Kennedy, M. J., Penfold, R. S., Donaldson, L., Hall, A. J., Davison, M. J., MacLullich, A. M. J., Walmsley, P., Clement, N. D. & Clarke, J. V., 4 Dec 2025, In: Bone & Joint Open. 6, 12, p. 1550-1558 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Visible fluid motion on manipulation as the new threshold for intraoperatively determined knee arthroplasty component loosening: a Delphi study
Buijs, G. S., Kievit, A. J., Walinga, A. B., Schafroth, M. U., Hirschmann, M. T., Blankevoort, L. & International Consensus Panel, 9 Jan 2025, In: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. 33, 1, p. 343-353Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Weight-bearing pain and implant migration, progressive radiolucencies, radiolucency more than 2 mm and subsidence on radiographs and CT are generally accepted criteria for knee arthroplasty loosening: an international Delphi consensus study
Buijs, G. S., Kievit, A. J., Schafroth, M. U., Hirschmann, M. T., Blankevoort, L. & International Consensus Panel, Mar 2025, In: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. 33, 3, p. 935-943 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review