BASK British Association for Surgery of the Knee

… Unit at National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), Dhaka, Bangladesh. NITOR is a 1,000-bedded government hospital and the largest and most advanced Orthopaedic Institute in Bangladesh.

With over 20 years of surgical experience, he is one of the renowned knee surgeons specially in Joint Replacement and Arthroscopy in Bangladesh.

He is actively involved in postgraduate medical education, teaching MS and Diploma students in Orthopaedic Surgery at NITOR, Dhaka. He is regular examiner of Final Professional MBBS examinations and of postgraduate (Master’s, Diploma, Fellowship) Orthopaedic programs under Bangladesh Medical University and Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Dr Ahmed takes pride in mentoring junior Orthopaedic surgeons, including Assistant Registrars, Registrars, and Medical Officers and regularly supervise postgraduate dissertations and thesis work. His academic contributions include a significant number of research publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

… 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.”

…treatment of patients with degenerative hip and knee conditions that require hip and knee replacement surgery. He has a specific interest in revision knee replacement and the treatment of prosthetic joint infection
Professor Baker is the current lead for the national revision knee surgery programme and is supervising the current NJR fellow examining implant choice at revision surgery and the associated clinical outcomes.
Between 2018 and 2023 he was been the director for research and innovation at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, an executive member of the Tees Valley Research Alliance (TVRA) and the Research Design Service for North East and North Cumbria.
Professor Baker has undertaken a significant amount of research into the outcomes of patients undergoing hip and knee replacement procedures. He was the inaugral National Joint Registry (NJR) research fellow (2012) and has also been a visiting British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) ABC fellow (2018).
Professor Baker is a member of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) team and is the expert reviewer for their current early value assessment. In the past he has been the current Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) speciality lead for orthopaedics and has sat on the NIHR HTA commissioning panel, the BOA research committee and the RCS MSK RADAR group.
He is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant holder leading a national studies that research how to help patients get back to work after hip and knee replacement surgery

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.

…knee surgery including ligament reconstructions, knee replacement surgery (partial and total replacements), arthroscopy, osteotomies and patellofemoral surgery.

Damian brings a modern approach to sports injuries with experience gained from fellowships in Australia and Canada. He worked with several professional sports teams during his training in both North America and Australia. He has worked with North-American footballers, Australian and UK rugby players, UK strongmen and countless others.

… specializes in robotic and custom knee replacement. Dr. Clarke completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Mayo Clinic, and a fellowship in knee surgery at the Insall Scott Kelly Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He has lectured extensively about knee surgery, and has authored more than 100 articles and book chapters.

Dr. Clarke is a deputy editor for The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery (JAAOS), and serves as chair of Continuing Medical Education for the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons.

…College London, bringing a dual perspective to sports medicine: elite performance and scientific training. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she progressed through high-level youth football and futsal before moving to the UK in 2018 to continue her education alongside elite football development at Reading Academy. In 2022, she relocated to Germany, studied Sport and Performance (in German) at the German Sport University Cologne, and played for Borussia Mönchengladbach U23’s (2022–2024). After her decision to retire from football, Darby moved to the UK to study Biomedical Science at Imperial College London. She has also co-authored several papers with Mr Chinmay Gupte, including “Gender disparities in return to sport post ACL-reconstruction,” strengthening the link between her lived experience of ACL rehabilitation and the evidence base that informs return-to-play decisions.

… (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.

…injuries and diseases. Apart from his highly-specialized work as a surgeon, he continues to take a scientific interest in the knee joint and is actively involved in several new developments in knee surgery. This allows him to offer the very latest knee surgery therapies and surgical procedures.

His philosophy: “We can only guarantee the best medical care by combining surgical experience with constant further development based on the latest scientific knowledge. I always aspire to offer the best therapy options according to the latest scientific findings. To this end, we have to remain inquisitive and open for new developments!”

…at Ross Hall Hospital in Glasgow, specialising entirely in surgery of the knee. He has experience in treating patients of varying levels of activity; ranging from those who enjoy gentle exercise to amateur recreational athletes and international level professional athletes.
Professor Hopper delivers a personalised approach to care, integrating shared decision making with patients by keeping up to date with modern treatments and providing an evidence-based approach.

Professor Hopper is an expert in sports knee injuries and is skilled in keyhole surgery of the knee (arthroscopy) including ligament reconstruction/repair, meniscus/cartilage repair and kneecap (patella) stabilisation surgery. He has performed numerous ACL Reconstruction procedures in both amateur and professional athletes with successful returns to sport.

He is a specialist in knee arthritis and treats patients with both early and late degenerative disease with a wide variety of treatment modalities. These range from non-operative measures such as physiotherapy or injection therapy which includes steroid, hyaluronic acid, platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) and newer biologics such as Arthrosamid to knee replacement surgery. Professor Hopper performs unicompartmental (partial) knee replacements and total knee replacements with a particular expertise in robotic-assisted joint replacements, recently performing the first VELYS knee replacement in Scotland at Ross Hall Hospital.

Professor Hopper graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2009 and underwent his orthopaedic specialist training in the West of Scotland. During his training he completed his thesis on ligament repair around the knee using the Internal Brace for which he was awarded an MD in Sports Medicine.

He underwent his fellowship training with Dr Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet at the Centre Orthopedique Santy, FIFA Centre of Excellence in Lyon, France. Dr Sonnery-Cottet is a world-renowned sports knee surgeon, specialising in the management of knee ligament injuries and sports trauma.

Professor Hopper was awarded the prestigious European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) – Chelsea FC Sports Trauma Fellowship which allowed him to work within the medical department at Chelsea Football Club and with Mr Andy Williams at the Fortius Clinic in London. Mr Williams is a specialist in ligament reconstruction and sports injuries of the knee and treats the majority of the English Premiership football and rugby teams.

He was also awarded the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) and West of Scotland Orthopaedic Research travelling fellowship awards. This enabled him to spend time at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago and the Hamburg University Hospital in Germany. These fellowships enabled Professor Hopper to further augment his skills in multi-ligament knee injuries, cartilage restoration, orthobiologic injection therapy and robotic-assisted knee replacements.

Professor Hopper has a keen interest in clinical research, in particular sports injuries and joint preservation with numerous publications in this area. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of the West of Scotland, Division of Sport and Exercise. He is also a member of the SANTI (Scientific ACL Network International) Study Group which brings together ACL surgeons from 4 continents to participate in research to advance the treatment of knee injuries. He regularly presents at both national and international orthopaedic meetings.

In his spare time, Professor Hopper enjoys spending time with his young family as well as watching and playing golf. He has also been a team doctor for the Scottish Football Association since 2014. Additionally, he is the Orthopaedic Team Physician for the Glasgow Clan ice hockey team and Caledonia Gladiators basketball team.

…(EKRU). She graduated from Cardiff University in 2005 and has enjoyed a varied career which has led to her most recent role in EKRU since 2021. Her experience and passion for managing patients with persistent and complex pain contributes to her role in supporting patients before and after arthroplasty and revision knee surgery. Liz has an MSc in Advanced Practice from Plymouth University (2024) and is an associate at The University of Exeter, currently contributing to research projects studying post operative knee stiffness, and working towards leading further research in this field.

…completed the Bristol Knee Fellowship & Christian Bezenar travelling fellowship. He covers the breadth of knee pathology but his main interest is in joint preservation & reconstruction.

…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.

…, associated with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI). He has conducted research within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the GRI, focusing on areas such as computer-navigated knee technology.

…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.

…people with sarcoma. His focus is on preserving function following significant sarcoma surgery and he recently undertook a nerve transfer in the foot to help a patient to be able to feel the floor, which is hugely important in knowing where to place your foot when walking.

He also explores the use of technology to improve outcomes for patients and is using 3D technology to improve gait and hazard avoidance for patients.

…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.

…his 6th birthday.
He graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine, completing higher surgical training in Manchester and fellowship training in Sydney. He was appointed to the Consultant staff at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children in 2004 and is involved in the management of paediatric patients with a special interest in limb deformity and trauma.
He is British Orthopedic Association President 2025-6

…at the Bristol Medical School, where he leads the Qualitative Musculoskeletal Research Group. Andrew specialises in using qualitative research methods in the development, evaluation, and implementation of health interventions at both local and national scale. His research focuses on the management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions and adverse outcomes after joint arthroplasty, including post-surgical pain and periprosthetic infections.

His research on the INFORM programme advanced the qualitative understanding of patient and clinician experiences of prosthetic infection, and as Chief Investigator of the INFORM: EP study he led the development and implementation of the evidence-based INFORM guidelines on the management of prosthetic infection. More recently he led the development of an NHSe Training Module on the Management of Prosthetic Infection aimed at allied health professionals.
He recently led on the adoption and implementation of a shared-decision making tool for osteoarthritis; the qualitative evaluation of the NIHR-funded STAR clinic for chronic pain after knee replacement and he is currently leading work packages on the largest ever orthopaedic trial NIHR PGfAR (NIHR203671) Hip Implant Prosthesis Programme for the Younger total hip replacement patient (HiPPY). He is also Co-Chief Investigator of the SOS Project, a study to improve support for orthopaedic surgeons in managing outlier performance.

Andrew is Director of the Bristol Medical School’s Short Courses Programme; Co-director of the Bristol Bone and Joints Health Integration Team; a Member of Versus Arthritis’ Research Expert Committee; and Chair of the Bone and Joint Infection Society’s Research Committee.

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.

…by a hip and knee fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was appointed as a consultant at the Golden Jubilee in 2014. He runs a specialised elective-only practice focused exclusively on hip and knee arthroplasty, with sub-specialist interests in robotic and computer-assisted surgery, and complex and revision knee arthroplasty.

…patient-based studies and biomechanics in this area. Hemant’s current research involves identifying the aetiology and treatment for hip and knee arthritis and ways to improve outcome. His research includes biomechanical studies, assessment of knee kinematics, outcomes after unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR), metal-on-metal hip resurfacings, and clinical trials of various interventions for osteoarthritis. His work on adverse reaction to metal debris (also known as pseudotumour) after metal-on-metal hip resurfacing was instrumental in changing clinical practice.

Hemant is also Co-Director with Professor Chris Lavy of COOL, a multi-country programme in trauma and orthopaedics training and research in East, Central and Southern Africa. COSECSA fosters postgraduate education in surgery and provides surgical training throughout East, Central and Southern Africa. This project is funded through the Health Partnership Scheme, which is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET).

…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.

…Foundation Trust, Chair, NJR Data Quality Committee

Derek Pegg is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Leighton Hospital, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Crewe. Appointed in 1996, Derek developed a specialist interest in both hip and knee replacement surgery and (until very recently) their revision. He joined the NJR as a regional clinical coordinator (RCC) for the Northwest in 2012, becoming the deputy chair in 2017 and was appointed Chair of the RCC Committee in January 2021. He is also a member of the NJR Board, Executive Committee and Chair of the NJR Data Quality Committee.

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.

…the Senior Knee Surgeon for Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (which incorporates the Avon Orthopaedic Centre) and he is a founding partner of Knee Specialists LLP. He is a Past-President of BASK and on the NHSE Steering Committee for the Revision Knee Network. He is on the Board and Executive Committees of the NJR and is the Chair of the Editorial Committee and the Vice-chair of the Surgical Performance Committee of the NJR. His practice covers all knee surgery but with and emphasis on arthroplasty and revision. He is co-Lead for the Revision Knee Network(South West).

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Cape Town (MBChB 1990) before undertaking his surgical and orthopaedic training in Bristol, UK. He completed knee fellowships in Melbourne, London Ontario, Pittsburgh, Boston, Oslo and Oxford. He is a member of: BASK, BOA, EKS, EKA/ESSKA, ISAKOS.

…Design & ManufacturingEngineering, University of Liverpool. Her role involves research in biomedical engineering and teaching engineering students.

Before joining the University of Liverpool, Dr Readioff was a lecturer (Teaching and Research) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. She gained leadership and management experience when coordinating students and staff to deliver teaching on the Group Business Design Project (GBDP 1 & GBDP II) units for the third and fourth-year mechanical engineering students. During this time, she continued collaborating with surgeons and academics interested in orthopaedic and dental bioengineering research.

Prior to her first lectureship, Dr Readioff was a Research Fellow at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. She worked on The Optimising Knee Therapies programme grant and contributed to the project’s numerical modelling and simulation tasks. In particular, she led the development of finite element models representing the meniscus within the tibiofemoral joint to evaluate meniscal allografts’ mechanical and tribological performance.

As a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, Stafford, UK, her project was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This project focused on using musculoskeletal modelling and analysis to develop a personalised assistive technology to support people who are paralysed and have lost functionality of their upper limbs.

In addition to her academic journey, she worked full-time as an Advanced Research Engineer at The Manufacturing Technology Centre Ltd., where she focused on Physics Modelling and Simulation. She learnt to work at different Technology Readiness Levels in research while gaining extensive project management skills. While working at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, she attained Chartered Engineer status from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Dr Readioff’s interest in biomechanics and numerical simulation started while pursuing her undergraduate engineering degree. She graduated with a first-class MEng (Hons) degree in Civil and Structural Engineering in 2013 and a PhD in Engineering in 2018 from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Her PhD thesis focused on determining material characteristics of knee joint ligaments ex vivo and developing a finite element model of the knee joint.

…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.

…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.

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.

…complex lower limb trauma and knee surgery.

He completed his training on the highly regarded Severn Deanery rotation, prior to competing further fellowships in Calgary, Canada, and Oswestry, UK.

His practice comprises the treatment of all knee conditions, and he has a high volume practice in treating patellofemoral disorders, receiving referrals from across the UK.

… Hospital in Birmingham and the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, which are 2 of only 5 purely Orthopaedic Hospitals in the country. 

He graduated from Edinburgh University and undertook Registrar training in the Manchester region. After completion of UK training he spent 18 months on fellowship in North America. 

In 2008 he was awarded the British Elbow and Shoulder Society North American traveling fellowship, visiting some of the world’s foremost shoulder surgeons in major centres such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Houston. In 2018 he was awarded the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee surgery and Arthroscopy APKASS travelling fellowship visiting centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. 

Professor Snow is an invited faculty member on courses and meetings across the globe, teaching surgeons the latest techniques in arthroscopic surgery. He has over 70 scientific publications in various international medical journals and has written 6 book chapters on knee and shoulder injuries. He has presented over 100 papers and his current grant awards are in excess of £3M.

Professor Snow has particular expertise in cartilage repair and is a committee member of the International Cartilage Repair Society. He treats all aspects of cartilage injuries using the full spectrum of cartilage regeneration techniques including Osteochondral Allograft and Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation.

…in the Northeast of England. She performs trauma surgery and has an elective practice that focuses exclusively on knee surgery.
She is experienced in cartilage, meniscal and ligament injury repair and reconstruction, osteotomy, realignment and stabilisation surgery and the management of early and advanced osteoarthritis including partial and total knee replacement. She aims to help patients to preserve their native knee joint where advisable. Helen has a particular interest in treating patellofemoral conditions and adolescent knee problems. She is also a keen trainer for orthopaedic trainees and fellows.
She graduated from Newcastle University Medical School in 2008 and went on to specialist trauma and orthopaedic surgery training in the Northern Deanery and then two years of knee surgery sub-specialist fellowship training in Bristol and Coventry. Her fellowship training encompassed all aspects of knee surgery with a focus on advanced techniques for recurrent kneecap instability, trochleoplasty, osteochondral transplantation and meniscus transplantation.

… of Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff, one of the busiest units in the UK. Chris spends one day a week in theatre, conducting trauma operations, often emergencies, and a further day every week performing more routine reconstructive surgery, mainly in the fields of knee, hip and foot surgery.
Responsibilities also include; the supervision and training of specialist orthopaedic trainees and visiting trainees from overseas. When not in theatre, the remainder of his week is spent in out-patient clinics, in carrying out training and teaching commitments and participating in an on-call rota for emergency work. Most of his routine operating timetable involves surgery of the major lower limb joints, with a large number of joint replacements, particularly in the more complicated cases such as those involving rheumatoid arthritis.

… Orthopedics Institute in Chicago (USA) and serves as the Associate Chairman for Research in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center. He also holds appointments in the Departments of Cell and Molecular Medicine and Rheumatology, as well as Bioengineering at the University of Illinois.

Prof. Wimmer received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (Germany). After a post-graduate year in Chicago, Prof. Wimmer continued his education in Germany and earned a doctorate in Biomechanics at the Hamburg University of Technology. Before joining Rush in 2001, he spend four years at the AO Research Institute in Davos, Switzerland.

Prof. Wimmer’s current research focuses on the phenomena between interacting surfaces of natural and artificial joints. He has published over one hundred-sixty peer-reviewed manuscripts.