Sunny was born and grew up in London and went to Birmingham Medical School, graduating in 1989. He initially worked in Birmingham, including the Birmingham Accident Hospital, University Anatomy Department, Worcester Royal Infirmary & the Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, before spending a year as Registrar in the Trauma Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town 1994-5. He then completed his Higher Surgical Training (HST) in Orthopaedics and Trauma on the Oxford Regional Training Programme 1995 to 2001. His last training year was as an Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow at Vancouver General Hospital / University of British Columbia. 

He was appointed consultant in T&O in Swindon in October 2001 and has remained there since. Over the past 2 decades he has become a specialist in all aspects of knee problems in patients with traumatic injuries, sports injuries, arthritic conditions and patients with problematic joint replacements. He continues with his busy elective knee and trauma practice and remains on the acute trauma rota. He is one of the few knee surgeons who has a combined clinic for painful knee conditions with a specialist pain doctor, at the Great Western.

He was Surgical Tutor for the Royal College from 2003 to 2010, was appointed and remains Clinical Lead for the Trauma Unit in 2011. He was departmental Clinical Lead from 2014 to 17. He did a nine-month period as an Honorary consultant in Orthopaedic Trauma at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwick in 2017-18 and was appointed Clinical Lead for the proposed new rehabilitation service to be based on the GWH site in 2019. 

While working as a full time NHS consultant, he’s continued with independent as well as multi-centre research. From his own research, he has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented over 150 times at national and international meetings, with principal interests being clinical and diagnostic complexity, outcomes following knee replacements, peri-articular fractures, knee ligament injuries, hip fractures, paediatric fracture care. He has also recently written articles on the persistent poverty of good IT in healthcare, presented on concerns with algorithm-based diagnosis and on novel methods for capturing better data. Last year he became the only clinician in his Trust to be paid for a session of research. He has led on a new research collaborative with the University of Bath. 

He continues to teach junior doctors, other healthcare professionals and students. He has taught on national and international course faculties and delivered a wide range of lectures over the past 30 years. He is an active member of several orthopaedic societies. He’s planning on returning to Sierra Leone in the near future to deliver acute life-saving skills courses.