Martin Gargan was educated at St Peter’s School, York as a York City Scholar. He went up to Oxford to study medicine in 1978 after a spell at the Webb School of California as an English Speaking Union Scholar.

He graduated in 1984 and gained his FRCS in 1988. His Orthopaedic training was on the Oxford rotation but included Fellowships as the General Motors/Royal College of Surgeons Trauma Fellow in Detroit and at the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street before being appointed as a Consultant in Bristol in 1994.

In over 25 years of Consultant practice he served as Clinical Director, Training Programme Director of the Severn Deanery and Intercollegiate Specialty Examiner He has served on the Committee of BSCOS (British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery), the BOA Council and was Chair of the BOA Medico-Legal Committee.

In 2014 he moved to Toronto as the Chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Harold and Bernice Groves Chair in Orthopaedics at the Hospital for Sick Children.

In 2018 he returned to the UK as the Clinical Director for Surgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

In 2019 he retired and returned to work full-time – as the Clinical Chair of the Division of Women’s and Children’s Services at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust.