Samuel Patten

The son of Olympic alpine skier and noted architect, Barry Patten, Samuel Patten took up rowing at Scotch College, Melbourne. His senior club rowing was with the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.

Patten was selected in Victorian state representative King's Cup crews contesting the men's Interstate Eight-Oared Championship at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 & 1990. He saw victories in 1987–88 and 1989–90. He was selected in the 1992 King's Cup eight but withdrew due to injury.[1]

From 1993 to 1996 Patten was a selector for Victorian states crews. In those same years he was on the Australian Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission.

From 1996 to 1997 he was a board member of Rowing Australia.

Samuel Patten in his private practice.

Graduating from Monash University with a degree in medicine, Patten gained a Fellowship from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 2002 and went on to work as a Senior Joint Replacement Fellow at the prestigious Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, England, and Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and Oxford University in 2004.[8] Patten specialises in injuries and arthritis of the hip and knee: Anterior Minimally Invasive Surgery (AMIS) for total hip replacement, conventional total hip replacement, revision hip replacement, hip arthroscopy, total knee replacement, revision knee replacement, knee arthroscopy, reconstructive surgery of the knee (ACL), knee osteotomy, post-trauma reconstruction of the pelvis and lower limb.[9]