Ken Woodburn qualified from Edinburgh University in 1985, trained in Vascular Surgery in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Sydney and was a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust from 1997-2017. He currently practices as a Consultant Vascular and Endovenous Surgeon at the Ramsay Duchy Hospital, Truro.

He developed an extensive clinical practice in emergency and elective vascular surgery including open and endovascular aortic surgery, carotid surgery, limb salvage surgery and the management of venous disease. His publications include papers on haemostasis and fibrinolysis in arterial disease, endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, and a number of book chapters on lower limb amputation.

He is currently the chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at the Ramsay Duchy Hospital, and has held a variety of NHS managerial roles in clinical governance and serious untoward incident investigation, as well as being lead clinician for Vascular Surgery, and the trusts Clinical Director for Surgery. He was a contributor to the NCEPOD report on lower limb amputation was co-director of the Southwest Peninsula AAA screening programme until 2018.

He has been providing medicolegal reports in personal injury and hand-arm vibration syndrome for nearly 20 years, and also provides medical negligence reports in Vascular Surgery for claimant and defendant.