BASK British Association for Surgery of the Knee

… and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford (NDORMS). He graduated from University of London (Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine). After completing basic surgical training on the prestigious Hammersmith surgical rotation, he began higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics on the Oxford programme in 2008. He took three years out of programme to undertake a PhD (DPhil) as the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit Fellow at the University of Oxford. His DPhil was titled “Improving Surgical Learning and Performance at Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty”.

Abtin was appointed as NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2015, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2017. He undertook two post-CCT sub-specialist clinical fellowships focusing on complex hip and knee surgery in Oxford (NOC) and Stanmore (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital). He was then appointed in Oxford as a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon. Clinically, he has a specialist interest in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, revision knee arthroplasty, and peri-prosthetic joint infection.

…NHS Trust. A major part of his practice involves managing complex problems referred from colleagues and neighbouring hospitals. Mr. Anand has a special interest in treating knee problems, including sport injuries, in children and adolescents.

Mr. Anand trained in Orthopaedics in London, Manchester, and Leeds. Upon completion of his UK orthopaedic training, he undertook Specialist Surgical Fellowship training in arthroplasty and sports injuries in Australia.
He is a trainer for arthroscopy skills and regularly conducts workshops for orthopaedic trainees. He is a founder member and Executive Director for the International Society for Knowledge for Surgeons on Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty (ISKSAA) and is the Executive editor of the Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery.
Mr. Anand has led in developing national guidelines for ACL reconstructions, besides contributing to the development of national patellofemoral and arthroscopic meniscus surgery guidelines.
He is the current Academic Secretary for BOSTAA, President for BIOS, and an executive member for BPFS.

Mr. Anand is regularly invited to present his research work at various national and international meetings. He has published widely on various knee topics and contributed chapters in books.”

…Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals, where she specialises in knee surgery and in particular arthroscopic/sports injuries. She graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1997 and gained higher surgical training before receiving an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering from the University of Cardiff in 2006. She is a fellow the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and passed the intercollegiate exam in Orthopaedics and Trauma (FRCS Tr & Orth) in 2008, gaining entry to the specialist register in orthopaedics in February 2009.

Mrs Banks is a member of the British Medical Association, British Orthopaedic Association, British Association for Surgery of the Knee, and of the 2020 Group which is a national group of specialist knee surgeons. She is Educational Supervisor for the higher surgical trainees in the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospitals and organises the Medical Student orthopaedic teaching programme.

She regularly teaches Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advanced Life Support, and Basic Surgical Skills around the country. In addition she is a member of the event medical team for the British Judo Association and has been an active member of St John Ambulance for over 20 years.

…be a trauma guy, with a particular interest in pelvic and acetabular trauma.

Pete is the Clinical Lead for Orthopaedics and Head of Orthopaedic Trauma. Pete’s subspecialty interest is in polytrauma and the treatment of pelvic and acetabular fractures. Pete is a senior clinical lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and lead faculty for the ‘Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences’ MSc, Pete is also faculty on the internationally renowned ‘Trauma Sciences MSc’, providing online, distance learning to budding trauma specialists.

Pete is leading the way in making the Royal London Hospital a source of prolific orthopaedic trauma research and academic learning.

He is also a medico-legal medical expert, specialising in those who have sustained high energy trauma and of providing reports in cases of post-traumatic injury.

Pete trained around North East London with his higher surgical training at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He later participated in 2.5 years of internationally recognised trauma fellowships in Christchurch (NZ), Nottingham (UK) and Dallas (Tx, USA).

Hall Hospital, Glasgow. His NHS base is at NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals. He is Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (knee surgery biomechanics research). He is also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and University of Glasgow. He is member of the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).
His clinical interests are focussed entirely around surgery of the knee with a special interest in sports knee injuries with experience in treating elite level athletes. This includes keyhole surgery (arthroscopy), meniscal repair and meniscal allograft transplantation, ligament (cruciate and collateral) repair and reconstruction, cartilage repair and knee cap (patella) stabilisation surgery. He also treats patients with arthritis with a focus on knee joint preservation wherever possible. This ranges from physiotherapy to knee joint injections (steroid, Hyaluronic acid, PRP, biologics), joint realignment surgery, partial and total knee joint replacement. He is trained in robotic assisted knee replacements.

Prof Bhattacharyya graduated with Honours in medicine and surgery from the University of Sheffield in 2009. He completed specialist training in orthopaedics in the West of Scotland, Glasgow. He then undertook a further sub-specialty fellowship in sports knee surgery with the internationally renowned Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at Coventry, UK. Here he was trained in all aspects of modern, cutting edge sports knee surgery and is one of the few surgeons in Scotland trained to treat meniscal deficiency with Meniscal Allograft Transplantation. Additionally, he completed a further fellowship in knee and trauma surgery at the Kings College Hospital Major trauma centre in London. He has been awarded the prestigious British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) travelling fellowship in 2023. With this award, he has visited international centres of excellence in sports knee surgery in London Ontario, Canada and Stanford University, USA. This has enabled him to gain further insight into the latest cutting edge techniques used in knee surgery in world leading centres and being able to offer this to his patients in the UK.

Prof Bhattacharyya is a keen academic. He has two higher degrees in research, having completed an MSc in orthopaedics (awarded top performing candidate) at the University of Edinburgh and an MD (Res) from Imperial College London. Here, he pioneered the use of Cognitive Task Analysis in knee and trauma surgery which led to multiple academic publications and presentations. He has been nominated by the Royal College of Surgeons, England, for innovation in surgical education and for the president’s medal in teaching innovation by Imperial College London for his work in this field. He continues to work in this area in his current role as Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London collaborating nationally and internationally. He also has a keen interest in biomechanics research investigating innovations in surgical techniques in sports knee surgery, research in meniscal allograft transplantation and clinical research ensuring patient outcomes are evaluated to deliver the highest standards of care. He has multiple publications and presentations (including invited lectures) at national and international level. In 2024, Prof Bhattacharyya was invited as international faculty to Kolkata, India, for the Indian Society of Hip and Knee Surgeons’ annual meeting to deliver a lecture on Unicompartmental Knee Replacement Surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee.

He is a keen teacher and trainer, faculty in various national courses, and involved in training the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons.

Prof Bhattacharyya is committed to personalized patient care from start to finish. His experience in the latest techniques and evidence based approach is tailored to individual patient needs to achieve the best outcomes.

… at University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester University Hospitals. She is Co-Director of the Northwest Joint Preservation Centre, The King James IV Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Immediate Past President of BASK and Trustee and Council of the British Orthopaedic Association.

Leela trained in London and completed specialist fellowships in Sydney and London. Her thesis was entitled ‘Articular Cartilage Injury and Repair in the Young Adult Knee’ and her research focus includes biological regenerative surgery and advanced joint replacement. She has won multiple awards for research, and now leads a strong research team that includes academic clinicians, biomedical engineers, materials scientists and cell biologists. Leela is an elected ICRS Senior Fellow, and founded the ICRS Global patient registry. She is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the UK Biological Knee Society in recognition of her work in this field. She has won awards for teaching, and is a clinician advisor to NICE. She was an ABC Travelling Fellow in 2010 and BASK Travelling Fellow in 2014.

He graduated from University of London (Imperial College School of Medicine) in 2003. He completed his surgical training in Oxfordshire, Leicester and Northamptonshire. He then undertook two post-CCT sub-specialist clinical fellowships in Nottingham and Coventry, before being appointed to Nottingham as a Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon.

Clinically, he has a specialist interest in primary hip and knee arthroplasty, including unicompartmental and patellofemoral knee arthroplasty. He also has a particular interest in revision knee arthroplasty and peri-prosthetic joint infection and is the Revision Knee lead for the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network.

He has published widely on outcomes of primary and revision joint replacement, and regularly speaks at national and international meetings. He is currently responsible for supervising the Nottingham Knee Fellowship, and also teaches on cadaveric primary and revision knee arthroplasty courses.

…2001, attained a Fellowship in primary and revision arthroplasty at Dalhousie University. In 2002, Dr. Bohm completed a MSc in Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. In addition to his surgical practice, Dr. Bohm is a Professor of Surgery at the Max Rady College of Medicine with the University of Manitoba. He also holds numerous research and healthcare administration positions: Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Canadian Joint Replacement Registry; Chair of the Hip and Knee Working Group for Patient Reported Outcome Measures at Canadian Institute for Health Information; President of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries; Director of Health System Performance at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation; Medical Director of Central Intake for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty as well as Medical Advisor to the Regional Orthopaedic Waitlist and Joint Replacement Registry at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

…knee conditions with both non-operative and surgical techniques. His orthopaedic training took place in Cambridge followed by a specialist knee fellowship at SportsMed SA, Australia before becoming Consultant in 2000. He works with many sportspersons- professional and amateur. He sees patients in the East of England and in London at Fortius.

His particular interests are knee ligament reconstructions (ACL), meniscal/cartilage repair & transplant, osteotomy, partial (uni) and total knee replacement and runs a complex tertiary referral clinic in East of England.

…arthritis of the hip, knee and ankle, as well as joint replacement and reconstruction. He is also experienced in cartilage restoration and osteochondral allograft transplantation, which uses healthy cartilage to fill in areas of damaged cartilage.

In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Bugbee has research interests in biologic response to implants, innovation in knee replacement technique and design, osteochondral transplantation, cartilage tissue engineering and biologic joint repair. He has also written extensively on joint reconstruction and osteochondral transplantation.

Dr. Bugbee believes that thoroughly listening to patients is the best way to determine how to help them and seeks to provide patients with the information necessary to make informed decisions about their care.

…the Toulouse University Hospital in the Clinique Universitaire du Sport, located in the Pierre Paul Riquet Hospital.

In addition to teaching at the Faculty of Medicine (professor since 2020), I participate in courses for professional societies such as SFA, ESSKA, ISAKOS, and SOFCOT.

My clinical practice, with over 1,000 surgeries per year, focuses exclusively on knee surgery. A significant portion of these surgeries involves sports traumatology, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, with more than 500 ACL reconstructions per year.

My research activities are also centered on the knee. I have contributed to over 200 publications in international journals. I am developing a tailored approach to offer personalized surgery to patients. In degenerative cases, the goal is to better analyze anatomical variability in order to propose prostheses adapted to each patient’s anatomy. In sports traumatology, the aim is to improve the identification of all lesions to offer appropriate treatment.

Since May 2022, I have been the Treasurer of ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery, and Arthroscopy). I am also developing an innovative educational approach with a new type of course: https://www.practicalcourseorthopedics.com.

with a sub-specialist interest in partial, total and revision knee Arthroplasty. Amy read medicine at the University of Oxford, she has a masters in medical education and went on to complete a PhD at  Imperial College, London. Her research investigates the clinical outcomes and biomechanics of Compartmental Arthroplasty of the knee. Amy has reported a biomechanical advantage of medial and lateral unicompartmental arthroplasty, both in isolation and in combination, compared to posterior-cruciate retaining total knee arthroplasty. Amy’s cadaveric studies demonstrated that partial knee arthroplasty preserves nearer-native anterior posterior stability and extensor mechanism efficiency. In the gait laboratory, Amy has demonstrated that compartmental arthroplasty is associated with nearer-normal vertical ground reaction forces and high levels of patient satisfaction, compared to matched posterior-cruciate retaining total knee arthroplasty and healthy control subjects. To date, Amy has published more than 21 research papers. She has presented on 22 podiums across the world.

… (Associate Professor) in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals.

His main interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of sports knee injuries and knee arthritis, together with trauma and fracture surgery. He performs both arthroscopic (keyhole) and open procedures, in particular cruciate ligament surgery, meniscal repair, patellar stabilisation, children’s knee surgery and knee replacement.

Mr Gupte is a specialist knee surgeon with over 10 years experience as consultant, but also has an active research and teaching interest in knee problems.

As director of training for trauma and orthopaedics for London deanery NW Thames (2011-2018) Mr Gupte helped reshape training for the consultants of the future in this region. He is also ex President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section having served as President in 2012, and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the prestigious British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 70 papers in this and other topics which include shoulder and ankle surgery, tuberculosis and training the surgeons of the future.

He continues his research as a Clinical Reader in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, with particular emphasis in meniscal surgery and knee ligament reconstruction, and also in arthroscopic simulator training, with the aspiration of improving outcomes in patients with knee problems. He helps train surgeons of the future at Imperial, He is a cofounder for the patient access website www.orthoconsent.com, which provides information on common procedures.

Caroline is a Professor of orthopaedics at St George’s University London with research interests in patellofemoral instability and trauma. She has established a patellofemoral service within St George’s Hospital for local and regional referrals. She was clinical director for corporate outpatients at St George’s Hospital from 2019-2024 and she previously lead for research in orthopaedics in the trust, having supervised over 50 orthopaedic trials. She has developed a trauma research infrastructure within St George’s including research physiotherapists, clinical trials managers and research fellows. Together with Assoc Prof Gelfer she supervises an education foundation year doctor, education fellow and an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. She is co-editor in chief of The Knee Journal. She supports equality and diversity initiatives within orthopaedics and was a trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association. As part of AOUK she chaired research and careers development, she is the current research chair for the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and the treasurer for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. She lectures nationally and internationally on patellofemoral instability and trauma.

…since 2001 where he practices in knee and trauma surgery. He also treats children with knee injuries and has an interest in recurrent patella dislocation along with patellofemoral osteoarthritis. He is actively engaged in research supervising trainees, along with work at both the Universities of Manchester and Salford where he holds honorary contracts.

He is currently Chair of the Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance. In this role, he is engaged with the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and Health Innovation Manchester to aid translation of research into clinical practice. He is a Member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the British Patellofemoral Society.

…which hosts the North East Major Revision Centre. My practice is entirely devoted to knee arthroplasty (partial, total and revision) with a particular interest in problematic, painful and stiff total knee replacements. I undertook his medical training in Manchester, including a PhD in tendon biology, followed by orthopaedic training in Newcastle and Northumbria on the North East Rotation. During this period I was the British Association for Surgery of the Knee Research Fellow (2018-) and worked with BASK’s revision knee working group to drive the reorganisation of revision knee surgery in England. I undertook fellowship training in revision knee surgery in Exeter (2022-23, Prof Andy Toms and Mr Jon Phillips) and Oxford (2023-24, Mr Abtin Alvand and Prof Andy Price) before returning to the North East as a consultant in April 2024. To complement my clinical work, I continue to collaborate with research scientists in Newcastle University to improve our understanding of the development of stiffness after knee replacement and improve treatment for this challenging patient group. I was elected to the BASK Executive Committee in September 2024, and as Junior Member I hope to develop BASK’s appeal to trainees, fellows and young consultants and increase the number of trainee members through trainee specific sessions at BASK meetings.

…in MSK imaging and interventional procedures. After her radiology registrar training in Liverpool, she completed the Toronto Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship in Canada which is world renowned.

Her NHS Consultant post is at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT). My private practice is in Spire Liverpool Hospital as part of the NW MSK imaging group, and on Rodney Street. Her areas of expertise are in MSK intervention, sarcoma and orthopaedic oncology, sports and rheumatology imaging with presentations, publications and book chapter in these subjects.

She has further developed the MSK intervention service by introducing MSK Cryoablation for Morton’s neuroma, bone metastases and fibromatosis. As a European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR) Intervention Committee member, she has lectured and presented at international conferences as well as trained other clinicians.
She was the creator of the PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) service in LUFHT in collaboration with Orthopaedic Surgery.

As a clinical expert advisor in the Cancer Alliance Sarcoma CQG, she authored the regional Ultrasound guidelines and co-wrote the MRI guidelines for soft tissue masses as well as deliver regional training.

As the Royal Trust Specialty Training Lead, she organises the Radiology registrars training and is involved with University of Liverpool in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

… the performance of medical devices

…of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His work focuses on a life-course approach to knee injury — from prevention in young athletes, to accurate diagnosis and early intervention, through to preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis in later life.

Stephen McDonnell leads national and international research programmes integrating injury prevention, advanced imaging, AI-enabled diagnostics, and innovative surgical techniques. As Chief Investigator of the NIHR ACL STARR trial and developer of the Cambridge Knee Injury Tool (CamKIT), he aims to transform how knee injuries are stratified, treated, and preserved.

Clinically, Stephen McDonnell specialises in knee preservation surgery, including ACL repair, ACL reconstruction, meniscal preservation, cartilage restoration (including Autologous Cartilage Implantation), and complex paediatric knee surgery. His goal is not simply to treat injury, but to change its long-term trajectory — preserving joint health across the lifespan.

Stephen McDonnell is passionate about collaborative research, inclusive education, and mentoring the next generation of clinician-scientists.

…Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Broadgreen, where he has a regional referral elective knee surgery practice treating all aspects of soft tissue knee pathology and sports injuries, with arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, articular cartilage resurfacing, osteotomy and primary partial and total knee replacements. He has an Honorary Consultant contract in Manchester University Hospitals FT where he co-chairs the NorthWest Regional Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation and Joint Preservation service for its 7 million population.

He is A BASK Executive Committee Member and was elected President of the UK Biological Knee Society in 2020- 2023. He is a member of the International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society General Board, Chair of the Finance Committee and previously Chair of the ICRS Patient Registry Steering Committee.

In 2025 he was promoted to Professor at the University of Manchester, the UK’s largest medical school. He was awarded an Honorary Clinical Chair at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) after working in the Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester from 2019. He was previously an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Liverpool from 2014 to 2020, a member of the University of Leeds EPSRC Optimising Knee Therapies Advisory Board 2017-21. and Honorary Professor at the University of Salford 2006 to 2018.

He is a clinician advisor to NICE, guest editor of The Knee and Cartilage Journals, associate editor and reviewer for several other orthopaedic and biomechanics journals. He has written 19 book chapters, 32 Invited Editorials, over 65 peer reviewed publications, over 160 National and International Podium and over 110 Poster Presentations. He is faculty for train the trainer, training assessment in the clinical environment and advanced arthroscopy courses of the Royal College of Surgeons and regularly invited faculty at national and international joint preservation, ligament reconstruction and arthroplasty surgery meetings.

He is involved in international collaborative clinical and basic science research, mainly related to knee disorders and has won awards for this. Current research interests include graphene and stem cell applications in knee injury; multiple ligament reconstruction, osteotomy, cartilage repair and arthroplasty outcomes, and the treatment of focal articular cartilage defects and early arthritis using novel implants.

…total knee replacement re-revision knee replacement, chronic osteomyelitis, non-unions and lower limb reconstruction. He undertakes young adult and complex primary knee replacement along with revision arthroscopy and revision ACL surgery.

He serves on several national committees working on infection and revision services.

To date Mr Morgan-Jones has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, 20 books & chapters, multiple invited lectures nationally & internationally.

He holds an elective NHS Consultant post at The Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, where he is the Specialty Lead for Knee Surgery, previously having been Director for Elective Orthopaedics 2017 – 2020, Director for Trauma from 2008-2012. James is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Bristol Medical School.

James graduated from Cambridge University, underwent basic surgical training in Oxford before working in knee and hip research in Newcastle. He then entered orthopaedic specialist training in the Wessex Deanery and won the EndoPlus Knee Prize in 2005. In 2006, he spent a Fellowship year in Sydney, Australia at the internationally renowned Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Surgery, gaining valuable experience in sports injuries and joint replacement surgery under the supervision of Merv Cross, whilst also spending time with Leo Pinczewski, David Wood and Justin Roe. That same year he was awarded the British Association of Surgery for the Knee travelling fellowship.

James has a keen research and training interest having written numerous published peer-reviewed papers (over 60) and his first book, A to Z of Musculoskeletal and Trauma Radiology, which was published in June 2008. He is also a current reviewer for scientific journals, including the Bone and Joint Journal and The Knee, having previously reviewed for Injury, Acta Orthopaedica and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. James leads on a number of trials and contributes to others as a co-investigator; he works closely with his colleagues as a member of the Bristol Knee Group which carries out research and teaching related to knee surgery both in the UK and internationally. He is a member of both national (BASK Working Groups for Meniscus, ACL Prevention, Arthroplasty and Revision Knee Surgery) and international collaborative consensus groups (International Consensus Meeting for Prosthetic Joint Infection 2018). James is the current BASK (British Association of Surgery for the Knee) Education Representative, sitting on the BASK Executive since March 2019.

His extensive experience has enabled him to offer a comprehensive knee service from ligament reconstruction, meniscal and cartilage surgery, osteotomy, partial, total and revision knee replacement. He leads the Bristol service for prosthetic joint infection of the knee, which runs via a multidisciplinary team at Southmead Hospital. He is well-known to encourage early post-operative mobility with enhanced recovery techniques, such as minimally-invasive muscle-sparing knee joint replacement, avoidance of tourniquets and local anaesthetic infiltrative techniques.

James has a keen sporting interest, previously playing competitive squash, athletics and rugby, but now he tends to be more of a spectator, but still coaches rugby, plays recreational squash and loves skiing! He is also a keen pianist, playing anything from Blues to Classical.  He is married to a local GP at Bristol University Students’ Health Service and together they have three children.

…NHS trust. He is a high volume arthroplasty surgeon undertaking approximately 200 hip and knee replacements annually. He has completed revision arthroplasty fellowships in Coventry and Nottingham as well as a sarcoma fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. He was a T&O registrar in the East Midlands Leicester Deanery. He has been an Associate Editor for the Bone and Joint Journal (2012-2016) and was the National Joint Registry/RCS fellow in 2013/14.

Jeya was awarded the BMA Doris-Hillier research grant in 2014/15 and awarded his PhD from the University of Leicester, looking into outcomes after hip and knee replacements. He has a specialist interest in the management of periprosthetic joint infections and fractures. Jeya has published over 50 peer reviewed scientific papers and presented extensively on hip and knee arthroplasty surgery both nationally and internationally. He was President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA) in 2013/14. He is a member of the European Knee Society and European Hip Society, Orthopaedic Device Evaluation Panel (ODEP) and T&O ST3 National Selection Design Group. He is also the clinical lead for Trauma and Orthopaedics in the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), representing the 6 main hospitals in West Yorkshire.

…College Hospital, London where he is also clinical lead for theatres and anaesthesia. He is actively involved in the training of higher surgical trainees on the London orthopaedic rotations and is also a co-developer and course tutor on the MSc in Sports Medicine, Exercise & Health at University College London. He is a senior honorary lecturer of University College London. In 2016 Rahul was the President of the Orthopaedics section at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Rahul Patel qualified from The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. He trained in surgery at various London teaching hospitals before undertaking a formal two-year research period culminating in a higher degree from the University of London. His specialist orthopaedic training was on the Middlesex/University College Hospital, London rotation. Rahul then undertook subspecialist fellowship training in reconstructive arthroscopy and sports orthopaedic surgery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic, Vail, USA.

Amongst others, he is a member of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK) Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS).

Mr Patel’s main orthopaedic and research interests are sports injuries of the knee and hip, meniscal preservation and transplant, patellofemoral instability and multiligament injuries of the knee. He is passionate about digital healthcare and is the co-convenor of an annual meeting dedicated to this topic.

…surgery. As a surgeon exclusively looking after knees, he is able to provide his patients with a wide range of treatment options. The conditions he treats range from minor sports injuries or arthritis all the way up to failing knee replacements requiring complex re-do surgery and major knee injuries needing multiple ligament reconstructions. Jaison has a busy NHS consultant practice at Barts Health (The Royal London Hospital) where he runs a tertiary complex knee service and is the Complex Major Revision Knee Network Lead for North East London. Jaison completed his undergraduate training at Barts and The London School of Medicine and higher surgical training on the prestigious Cambridge training programme. He completed his fellowship training at the world-renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and has visited international centres of excellence to ensure he is able to provide his patients with the latest and best treatments. Jaison is passionate about delivering high quality, personalised treatment, based on the latest research. He prides himself on communicating clearly with patients, ensuring they understand their diagnosis and all possible treatment options to get them back to where they want to be.

specialising in knee arthroplasty and knee revision surgery, as well as general trauma. He is the Revision Knee Network lead for the South West Peninsula and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.

He has been a member of the ODEP and Beyond Compliance committees since 2015, and he is a member of both the BASK Primary and Revision Knee Working Groups. He is regularly involved in teaching (including being AO faculty and regularly teaching on FRCS and industry courses). He is on the editorial board of the BJ360 journal and is the South West regional clinical coordinator for the NJR.

His research portfolio includes exploring patient outcomes after knee surgery, pain, robotics, revision surgery and infection, and with the team at Exeter he is involved in a number of ongoing RCTs in primary and revision knee surgery.

During training, he completed a Master’s Degree in Sports Medicine and volunteered as a medic for the athletics competition at the London 2012 Olympics.

…Hospitals FT where he specialises primary and revision knee arthroplasty, arthroscopic surgery to the knee and hip arthroplasty. He lives in Cheshire and is married with three sons.

He was educated at The Edinburgh Academy and then at The University of Sheffield. He is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His higher training in orthopaedics was on the Mersey Orthopaedic Rotation and involved a year at Wrightington Hospital and a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow sponsored travelling fellowship to visit Dr Leo Whiteside in St Louis, USA.

He is the current Treasurer for BASK as well as the President of the Grosvenor Orthopaedic Club and Managing Partner of the Bone and Joint Centre. He is an honorary clinical lecturer at The University of Liverpool and has a number of peer reviewed publications.

Alasdair Santini was a keen fencer, having been captain of The University of Sheffield  team but currently keeps fit by skiing and coaching junior rugby. He is a lifetime ticket holder of seats at Murrayfield so he can follow Scotland’s rugby internationals.

…included medical education and refugee camp relief work in the middle East. He returned to the UK to complete specialist training in London and Oxford before travelling to Malawi to work on bacterial meningitis. He now works in Oxford where his time is split between clinical infection work, general medicine and research. Current academic interests include the use of local antibiotics in bone andjoint infection, a potential infective aetiology of back pain, and the management of Staph. aureus bacteraemia.

…of Edinburgh and is Editor-in-Chief of Bone and Joint Research. Clinically she has specialist interests in complex knee arthroplasty surgery and periprosthetic fracture management. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic surgery, finite element analysis and knee biomechanics in which she has over 100 publications. She was awarded the Hunter Doig medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020. She is an advocate for diversity in surgery and is involved in diversity projects both in the UK and America and is a member of Pride Ortho.

…repair in 2001 and his professorial thesis on pediatric anterior cruciate ligament injuries in 2003. He was appointed extraordinary professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Saarland in 2007. Prof. Seil has been working as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg from 2004. His main areas of clinical and scientific activity are orthopaedic sports medicine as well as primary and revision knee arthroplasty.

Prof. Seil is co-director in Luxembourg of the IOC Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health Network. He is co-founder of the Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) registry of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and has recently been appointed to the scientific board of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy. He received several awards for his scientific work, co-edited several books, (co-)authored several hundred peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Prof. Seil is a founding member of the Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics. He is co-editor of the journals “Arthroskopie” and Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology as well as editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine.

Nick Smith is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in the knee, at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital. He is Chief Investigator on the NIHR-funded STRAP ACL trial, a randomised comparison of ACL reconstruction with and without synthetic tape augmentation of the autograft, and his ACL research also includes published work on posterior tibial slope and slope asymmetry in ACL rupture and reconstruction failure. He has a high-volume meniscal transplant clinical practice, having completed a PhD from the University of Warwick on the subject including a pilot randomised controlled trial (METEOR1), and is now co-applicant on the METEOR2 trial, comparing meniscal transplant to physiotherapy.

…of disorders of the knee. His clinical practice encompasses all aspects of knee surgery including the treatment of sports injuries, ligament injuries, arthritis and patella instability. His private practice is at the Spire Manchester, the Beaumont Hospital and the Oaklands Hospital.

He completed his specialist surgical training in the North West of England, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS T&O) in 2016. He undertook prestigious knee fellowships in Harrogate, Cardiff and France, where he worked with world-renowned knee surgeons specialising in partial knee replacements, knee ligaments reconstruction, osteotomies and patellofemoral joint surgery. Following 5 years as a consultant at Royal Bolton Hospital, Mr Sultan was selected in 2021 to lead the acute knee services at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Manchester Royal Infirmary, Trafford General Hospital.

Mr Sultan is experienced in clinical and laboratory research, including the use of gait analysis. He completed a MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University. His dissertation, A New Approach to Prevention of Knee Osteoarthritis, was presented at national and international conferences, and awarded Sir John Charnley and the British Association of Surgeons of the Knee prizes. Mr Sultan has several publications, and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He regularly teaches on ATLS and knee surgery courses. He is a regular examiner of medical students at the University of Manchester, and is actively involved in training of junior surgeons in the NHS.

…of Coventry and Warwickshire.

He qualified from Birmingham University Medical School in 1992 and completed specialist training in orthopaedic and trauma surgery in London in 2004 before undertaking a fellowship in Knee, Sports and Arthroplasty Surgery in Victoria, Australia. His interests cover a full range of knee problems from sports injuries to the treatment of the arthritic knee.

He is committed to training junior surgeons at UHCW, teaching various aspects of knee surgery at both national and international meetings as well as lecturing at Warwick University.

…Fortius Clinic, London; Reader at Imperial College, London; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Peters Myers / McMeniman. Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore ’97-00 then 15 years as consultant at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Exclusively ‘sports knee’ surgery. 90% of patients are professional athletes- he is the usual knee surgeon for many teams including the majority of English Premiership football and rugby clubs.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles: some award-winning, as well as many other publications. A study of knee motion employing weight-bearing, ‘dynamic’ MRI was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2005-2006. Current focus is on the MCL after a period of work on the anterolateral soft tissues with relevance to ACL injury, and improving clinical outcomes in elite athletes. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. His h-index is 46.

He sits on the Board of Directors of ISAKOS, and serves on their finance and knee: sports and preservation committees. He is second vice-president of The ACL Study Group and so will be president in 2030. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal, as well as The ESSKA Sports Committee. He was previously on the executive of The British Association for Surgery of The Knee. In 2002 he was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship. He was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper in 2011. He is the first UK member of The Herodicus Society, a U.S. sports surgery society

…training was in Cardiff, Nottingham, and Derby where he was appointed Consultant in 1990. Tim specialised in lower limb joint surgery immediately and became the first Clinical Director of the orthopaedic unit in Derby in 1993.

Elected Treasurer of the BASK (2000-2005), Tim then became Hon Secretary (2006-2009) and President (2011-2013) and was also a founder member of the European Knee Society. Tim was elected to the BOA Council (2007-2010) and to the Presidential line in 2013, serving as President of the Association 2015-16 and was also the Robert Jones lecturer in 2016. He helped establish the process for Elective Care Reviews to address problems with joint surgery outcomes. Tim was Chairman of the Bone and Joint Publishing group having been on the Editorial Board and subsequently the Council of management of the BJJ for most of two decades.

Tim has lectured widely on TKR operative technique, kinematics and balancing the knee, and outcomes of joint replacement from registry data. Tim was a design consultant to Smith + Nephew for the implant: Journey TKR, gaining considerable insight into the design, development and manufacture of orthopaedic implants.

For many years Tim focused mainly on patient safety related to medical devices and served on the NJR Steering Committee 2003-2007. He was also on the Safety of Devices Committee and currently advises the MHRA and the FDA about joint replacement devices. He also helped set up ODEP for knees whilst he was BASK President and remains actively involved in Beyond Compliance.

Tim retired from active clinical work in May 2021 after 43 years in the NHS and was appointed as Medical Director to the NJR in 2019. He maintains an ongoing connection with the health service, not only through his role with the NJR, but also in an advisory capacity to the Independent Medical Expert Group of the MoD.