Honorary Senior Lecturer
- Email Address
- stephen.bridgman@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Dr Stephen Bridgman is a public health physician who has been an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen since 2017. He joined the Epidemiology Group in 2023 as part of a collaborative joint appointment with Public Health Scotland and NHS Highland where he has recently been appointed to provide public health advice, principally on musculoskeletal disease and injury. He has held an Honorary senior lectureship at Keele University where he set up and led a surgical trials and epidemiology unit as part of Keele's MSK research programme, was involved in practical Health Board commissioned research, and had an interest in education, having responsibility for Keele's undergraduate public health medicine curriculum. Alongside his honorary academic positions, he has held Director of Public Health service positions in England, Guernsey and New Zealand, and CMO in Guernsey. Varied service leadership responsibilities/experiences have included organisational strategy, research governance, Caldicott Guardian, health improvement programmes, public health profiles and survey, developing and taking public health strategies through a political assembly, developing public health legislation, and leading on pandemic responses He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, and around 100 publications from all categories. He trained in undergraduate medicine in Aberdeen where he was awarded an MRC studentship in musculo-skeletal disease, before undertaking his MD in Aberdeen while a junior doctor. He trained in trauma surgery in Scotland, and then public health medicine in Merseyside.
His current research interests are interventions to improve the MSK health of the Scottish public, and the reduction of the burden of injury in Scotland.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the UK, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of Scottish National Audit Group steering committees for Scottish Arthroplasty Project, Hip Fracture Audit and Major Trauma Audit.
- External Memberships
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Consultant in public health for Public Health Scotland (clinical MSK and injury lead), NHS HIghland and Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership.
Prizes and Awards
BMA Doris Hillier Award for MSK research
British Association of Medical Managers, Travelling Fellowship
Double county veterans tennis champions
International veteran tennis player