… Infirmary in 2001. His elective practice is weighted heavily toward all forms of knee surgery including arthroscopy, soft tissue ligament reconstruction, arthroplasty and revision arthroplasty. In addition to this he deals with a number of late reconstruction problems following trauma.

He has an interest in partial knee replacement surgery and has run clinical trials on the use of robotics in knee surgery.

He is the Director of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Orthopaedic Research Unit with a research portfolio of knee and trauma studies. He is also the current Chair of the Scottish Orthopaedic Services Delivery Group which promotes service redesign in Orthopaedics and including same day discharge following lower limb arthroplasty.

Ms Karina Elisabeth Bohlen is Head of Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma, and Sports Surgery at Elbe Klinikum Buxtehude (Germany). While overseeing the full clinical spectrum of her department, her personal practice is primarily focused on specialized knee arthroplasty, including primary and revision procedures as well as robot-assisted surgical techniques.

She began working with computer navigation systems in 2005 and further advanced her expertise during a dedicated Fellowship at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow. Prior to her current role, she served as Leading Senior Physician in Hamburg and held an additional position as a medical management consultant for the Schön Klinik administration. In this dual capacity, she was instrumental in developing group-wide enhanced recovery protocols and same-day surgery pathways. Ms Bohlen is a frequent international speaker on robotics and digitalization in orthopaedics, combining nearly two decades of navigated surgical experience with strategic clinical process management.

…Medical Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, where he leads the Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory and the Applied Mechanics Division. He has been the Engineering Co-Director of the Hamlyn Centre, which is part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, since July 2020. He is a founding member and great advocate of the Imperial College Robotics Forum, now the first point of contact for roboticists at Imperial College. His 20-strong team of staff and PhD students has a translational focus, though their work encompasses both “blue skies” research and “near-to-market” development. He was the Chair of the Programme Committee for the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS International) and CAOS UK, and now of the Hamlyn Symposium; He was the founding Chair of the IET’s Communities Committee for Technical Networks (CC TN), a Leverhulme Prize winner (engineering), a former ERC grant holder, and the coordinator of an €8.3M European project on robotic-assisted neurosurgical drug delivery (EDEN2020) and a UKRI THT Programme Grant on Endoluminal robotics (THT ROBOGAST). He has published over 200 papers and secured in excess of £20M in research funding to date.

… interest in robotic-assisted knee replacements, minimally invasive hip replacements, and rapid recovery pathways. He is committed to providing personalised care tailored to each patient’s needs, combining advanced surgical techniques with a strong emphasis on empathy, communication, and technology.

He has one of the largest robotic knee replacement practices in Wales and the Wirral, having performed personalised robotic-assisted knee replacements for over three years. He also offers minimally invasive hip replacements and day.

… where he holds the position of Clinical Governance Lead and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He completed his surgical training in the South of England on the Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) National Training Program for Trauma & Orthopaedics. He holds post graduate diplomas in Orthopaedic Engineering (Cardiff) and Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery (Brighton). His fellowship experience in lower limb joint replacement surgery was at University College Hospital (London) and Wrightington Hospital (Lancashire). He subsequently worked as a Locum Arthroplasty Consultant at Wrightington Hospital before joining the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital in 2022.

His clinical interests are primary hip replacement and primary/revision knee replacement surgery. He is certified in robotic assisted surgery. Asim has published research in trauma, partial, total and redo hip and knee joint replacement and contributed to UK national guidelines on primary hip replacement and revision knee replacement. Asim participates in medical education and clinical supervision of medical students and junior doctors rotating at GJNH. He is faculty and organiser on regional FRCS and Trauma Courses. Asim has a keen interest in improving patients’ experience of surgery through enhanced recovery and the use of latest technology.

…and Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Robotics Lead at Cleveland Clinic London.
He has a keen clinical and research interest in technology assisted knee surgery and has used Navigation and Robotics for all his partial and Total knee replacements since being appointed as a substantive Knee Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare in 2004. This was following a fellowship in Knee Navigation techniques in Perth, Western Australia. He is involved in international trials for novel cartilage resurfacing implants, customised and robotically assisted knee replacements. He is a programme committee member of Computer assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) International. He is an Orthopaedic research advisor for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics at Imperial College and faculty member on several national and international knee reconstruction course teaching surgeons of all grades in Robotic Knee Surgery. He is a reviewer for several Orthopaedic Journals including British Bone & Joint Journal, American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Knee, and Injury.

…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.

… National Hospital in Glasgow since July 2005 and served as its Director of Orthopaedic Research for 10 years. He has worked in Orthopaedic units in Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris in France, as well as in Chicago and Pittsburgh in the United States. Mr. Picard has been involved in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) since its inception. He is a member of several national and international orthopaedic societies and is a past president of the CAOS UK society. Mr. Picard has more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, over ten book chapters, and has edited two books on Computer Assisted Technology. Additionally, he holds seven registered patents. Mr. Picard’s basic research at the University of Grenoble in the 1990s laid the foundation for the technical construction of the first routine CT-free knee navigation system for Total Knee Arthroplasty and later the first CT-free robotic system. On January 21, 1997, he performed the first-ever knee replacement in the world using this technology. Recognised as a “Lead User Developer of Radical Innovation in the Field of Medical Equipment Technology,” Dr. Picard is also an Honorary Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Strathclyde University in Glasgow. His contributions to the field have earned him multiple awards, including the Muller Award, the highest recognition in Computer Assisted Surgery, in 2009 in Boston, MA (USA), and the NHS 70 Heroes Award in Scotland.

…surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital . He qualified with a Distinction in Clinical Practice from St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London in 2007 and undertook his Basic Surgical Training in London and Oxford. He went on to complete his higher surgical training in the West Midlands on the Birmingham rotation and obtained his FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics) in 2016. Mr Sharma completed his highly competitive advanced knee fellowships from both the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and Nottingham University Hospitals.

Mr Sharma has a specialist interest in all aspects of knee surgery, including partial knee replacements, total knee replacements and failed knee replacements. He strives to use the latest technologies and advancements in orthopaedics to personalise the best surgical outcome for his patients and where possible uses robotic surgery. His robotic experience entails using the Robotic Surgical Assistant (ROSA®) by Zimmer Biomet and his experience with other robotics systems is broadening.

He is the chair of the Modern Interventions Panel at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and is the Surgical Lead for same day discharge following knee replacement surgery at his Trust. Mr. Sharma has been awarded three academic prizes and has a strong research background in both clinical and basic sciences. He has co-authored a number of book chapters and enjoys lecturing regularly for undergraduates.