Join us for the Imperial Sports Knee Meeting  on Wednesday 14th January 2026 at No 1, Wimpole Street, London.

The Imperial Sports Knee Meeting offers a unique opportunity for leading surgeons to discuss innovation, progress and current practice in sports knee surgery.

During this one day high yield conference, delegates will meet in the Royal Society of Medicine in Central London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover the latest practices in ACL, multiligament, meniscal and cartilage injuries.

Imperial College London is a world-renowned university with a mission to benefit society through excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. As a college endorsed meeting, the faculty draw on the academic and professional prowess of a world class academic institution.

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2025 Meeting Highlights

  • ACL Reconstruction – Tunnel position, graft choices, lateral tenodesis
  • Multiligament knee injuries – Staging/timing technique
  • Meniscal repair techniques and indications
  • Meniscal transplantation – Indications, techniques & results
  • Chondral defects – Decision making & options
  • PFJ instability management – Trochleoplasty MPFL TTO

Convenors

Rahul Bhattacharyya

Professor Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at Ross…

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.

Chinmay Gupte

Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader…

… (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.

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Wednesday 14th January

07:45

Registration & Coffee

08:15

Introduction & Welcome
Chim Gupte & Rahul Bhattacharyya

Session 1: Osteotomy and knee joint preservation
08:30 – 09:50
Moderators: Raghbir Khakha & Peter Thompson

08:30

Decision making behind HTO/DFO: How do you select the right patient?
Oday Al Dadah

08:40

Planning for a HTO/DFO: What measurements are important?
Sanjay Anand

08:50

Surgical technique : HTO/DFO (manual instrumentation)
Ragbhir Khakha

09:00

Osteotomy and PSI – where are we at now?
Ragbhir Khakha

09:10

Coronal plane malalignment and ACL reconstruction: key considerations and surgical technique

Pete Thompson

09:20

Posterior tibial slope and ACL reconstruction : where are we at now?
Al Getgood

09:30

Questions

09:40

Meet the experts session

09:50

COFFEE

Session 2 – ACL
10:10 – 11:30
Moderators: Rahul Bhattacharyya & Sachin Tapasvi

10:10

Biomechanics and surgical anatomy of the anteromedial and posterolateral corner: Key aspects
Andrew Amis

10:20

ACL and PLC reconstruction: decision making and surgical technique
Sachin Tapasvi

10:30

ACL and AMRI: decision making and surgical technique

Simon Ball

10:40

Revision ACL: decision making and surgical technique

Adil Ajeud

10:50

BTB ACL in elite sports

Simon Ball

11:00

Quads ACL in elite sports

Roberto Rossi

11:10

Questions

11:20

Meet the experts

Session 3 – Patella instability and tendinopathy
11:30 – 12:30
Moderators: Caroline Hing & Chim Gupte

11:30

Trochleoplasty : Who, when and how?

Caroline Hing

11:40

Patella instability in extension v flexion : key considerations

Andrew Metcalfe

11:50

Patella tendinopathy: current update on treatment

Sanjay Anand

12:00

Questions

12:10

Meet the experts

12:30

LUNCH BREAK

Industry Sessions
13:30 – 14:00

13:30

Managing Isolated Meniscal Pathology in Elite Athletes

Simon Ball – Arthrex Sponsor Presentation

13:45

The Infinity system for ACL reconstruction: providing versatile solutions in ACL surgery

Rahul Bhattacharyya – Conmed Sponsor Presentation

14:00

Sports Knee Fellowship – Interactive session – hosted by Rahul Bhattacharyya/ Ernest Chew

Peter Thomson, Sanjeev Anand, Sachin Tapasvi

Session 4 – The Great Cartilage Debate
14:30 – 15:45
Moderators: Nick Smith & Mike McNicholas

14:30

OATS: When and How? 

Rahul Patel

14:40

AMIC: When and How? 

James Murray

14:50

Mince Cartilage : When and How? 

Kash Akhtar

15:00

OCA: When and How?

Mike McNicholas

15:10

ACI : When and How? 

Mike McNicholas

15:20

Orthobiologics : What is the current evidence

Iain Murray

15:30

Questions

15:45

COFFEE

Session 5 – Meniscus
16:00 – 17:00
Moderators: Rahul Bhattacharyya & Sanjeev Anand

16:00

Meniscal repair surgical techniques – all inside, inside out, outside in, radial tears and horizontal cleavage tears

Sachin Tapasvi

16:10

Biological augmentation of meniscal healing: what is the current evidence?

Khaled Sarraf

16:20

Degenerate meniscus tears: non-operative v indications for surgery

Rhidian Thomas

16:30

MAT surgical technique – How I do it?

Nick Smith

16:40

Meet the expert’s session – case based discussion

Session 6 – Paediatric Knee
17:00 – 18:00
Moderator: Nick Nicolaou & Stephen McDonnell

17:00

ACL prevention in the adolescent knee

Morgan Bailey

17:10

Osteochondral injuries in the Paediatric Knee: an update

Sanjeev Anand

17:20

LEAP in the paediatric patient

Nick Nicolau

17:30

Discoid lateral meniscus: how I treat it

Stephen McDonnell

17:40

Questions

17:50

Meet the Experts Session

18:00

Summary and close
Chim Gupte

The timetable is liable to changes on the lead upto the event.

Adil Ajuied

Mr Ajuied is a specialist Knee surgeon at the Fortius clinic London. Mr Ajuied….

…qualified as a Doctor in 1998 from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school. While in training, Mr Ajuied completed a postgraduate Master’s degree, and has been appointed a Senior Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics as well as Director of Education for South London Orthopaedics, in recognition of his contributions to higher surgical training. He has served as an executive board member of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK), and is currently associate editor of the Knee Journal.

Mr Ajuied has travelled and worked in many countries, from Belgium to South Africa, on specialist fellowship training and charitable work. In 2008 he worked in South Africa (University Hospital of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), where he held an appointment as an Honorary Consultant. While in South Africa, Mr Ajuied established a new dedicated Knee Injury Service, which continues to serve the local community, growing from strength to strength, and with which he still has strong links.

Mr Ajuied worked as a Consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals from 2009 until 2025, where he led the Knee unit.

While in clinical practice, Mr Ajuied has developed a number of care innovations, including new surgical techniques and a unique rapid rehabilitation programme for patients undergoing knee surgery.
Mr Ajuied lectures and instructs nationally and internationally on topics relating to knee surgery.

Kash Akhtar

Mr Kash Akhtar is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic London…

…specialising in knee injuries and treatments. His clinical expertise includes sports knee injuries, meniscal preservation and transplantation, cartilage repair, knee ligament reconstruction, and complex realignment surgery. He is passionate about helping active individuals—from recreational athletes to professionals—return to peak performance using the latest evidence-based techniques.
Kash trained at Imperial College London, graduating with Distinction in Surgery, and completed a prestigious knee surgery fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. He was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship to study advanced orthopaedic techniques in leading U.S. centres and has delivered over 100 international presentations, earning multiple awards for clinical and educational excellence.
He previously spent over a decade as a Consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the UK’s busiest centres, where he managed complex tertiary knee referrals. A dedicated educator, he holds two postgraduate degrees and a fellowship in medical education and is an Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery & Surgical Education at Barts and the London Medical School, QMUL, as well as an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Kash is also Lead for Digital Health Education and Innovation at Cleveland Clinic London and founder of orthohub, a global platform for orthopaedic education. He hosts the award-winning “orthohub see one / do one” podcast and the “Exploring Health with Cleveland Clinic London” podcast, bringing expert insights to healthcare professionals and the public alike.

Oday Al-Dadah

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South…

… Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol.

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant and cartilage transplant surgery of the knee. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as medial collateral ligament and postero-lateral corner reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies including high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. He performs a high number of partial knee joint replacements using minimally invasive techniques encompassing medial and lateral uni-compartmental knee replacement, patello-femoral joint replacement and segmental bi-compartmental knee replacement. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction, tibial tuberosity transfer and trochleoplasty.

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and privileged to be an executive board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).

 

Andrew Amis

Andrew Amis joined the Biomechanics Group in 1979, as a (very) junior Lecturer…

…following a short period post-graduation as a designer at Rolls-Royce Aeroengines in Derby, then a PhD and postdoctoral contract in the Bioengineering Group for the Study of Human Joints at the University of Leeds. The PhD project was concerned mostly with measuring the joint kinematics, contact areas and analysing the muscles in order to derive the forces on the elbow during highly-loaded activities. The work in Leeds led to the design and clinical trial of an elbow prosthesis and related instruments, which was patented and licensed to Howmedica for manufacture. The clinical work was in collaboration with Mr Jim Miller, of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. A spin-off from the total elbow prosthesis was a system of radial head prostheses, for use in unstable fracture-dislocations of the elbow. These implants are still marketed by Stryker and by Corin. Concerns about joint stability led into work on artificial ligaments, with work initially on carbon fibres, but later on polyester fibres. This included collaboration with Professor Jimmy Campbell and Dr Susan Kempson, of the Edinburgh University Veterinary School, who used the implants for a large series of injured dogs’ knees, and studied the tissue reactions to the fibres, showing the formation of new collagenous tissue on the polyester scaffold. The polyester ligament system was then engineered for human use, including extensive fatigue-creep testing, in collaboration with DePuy Ltd and DuPont Ltd. A multi-centre clinical trial was set up, with particular collaboration with Mr Sadhan Mukherjee, of Airdrie Hospital, who introduced arthroscopic methods. Although artificial ligaments fell out of use, the work on the stability of the knee continued, with early work examining the roles of fibre bundles within the cruciate ligaments; that led to development of double-bundle ligament reconstruction methods which gave a closer approximation of natural knee laxity behaviour. This led to membership of both the Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Study Groups, and Andrew was the inaugural International Research Professor of the ACL Study Group in 2003. A related line of work was the measurement of complex knee instabilities, and work to attach electromagnetic sensors directly to the bones of patients during ligament surgery, and then later to splints for mounting the sensors on the skin, for routine clinical use. Expertise on both implant design and soft tissue mechanics has led to much work on the stability and kinematics of total and partial knee prostheses, attempting to understand how both implant design and surgical variables affect the behaviour of the replaced joint. In addition to research work, Andrew has acted as a consultant and expert witness for a number of areas of work, includingimplant design, failures of orthopaedic implants, industrial injuries, and non-accidental injuries of infants.

Sanjay Anand

Sanjay is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a clinical practice exclusively…
… devoted to knee surgery.  His NHS practice is based at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport and he consults privately at the Alexandra BMI Hospital, Cheadle.

His practice covers all aspects of knee surgery, from sports injuries to arthritis of the knee.  He commonly performs arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery, cruciate ligament reconstruction and both total and partial knee replacements.  His specialist areas of interest include cruciate ligament  injuries and other sports-related trauma including cartilage injuries.

Throughout his career, Sanjay has regularly been involved in Research and Audit and has completed his MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at the University of Cardiff.  He has presented his research in publications and at national and international meetings.

Sanjay has a particular interest in teaching and training and is faculty on a number of local and national courses aimed at developing orthopaedic skills of trainee orthopaedic surgeons, general practitioners and physiotherapists.  He also runs the popular ‘Orthopaedics Made Easy’ course – a one-day course for general practitioners, officiated by the Royal College of General Practitioners.

He is a Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health, Sport and Rehabilitation at Salford University and also a Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester.

Sanjeev Anand

Mr. Anand is a Consultant knee surgeon practicing at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals…

…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.”

Morgan Bailey

Morgan Bailey is a Consultant in Children’s and Adolescent Knee Surgeon working between…

… University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites. She is a Trustee for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play and the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women.

Simon Ball

Mr Ball specialises in all aspects of knee surgery. Mr Ball is an extremely keen…

…keen sportsman. He captained Cambridge University Football Club and has played semi-professional football, thus understands the needs and expectations of sports people. Mr Ball has a special interest in sports knee injuries, complex ligament reconstruction and re-alignment surgery.

Rahul Bhattacharyya

Professor Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at Ross…

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.

Leela Biant

Leela Biant is Academic Head of Dept Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery…

… 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.

Ernest Chew

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Alan Getgood

Al Getgood is a UK trained Specialist Knee Surgeon at Fortius Clinic London…

…focusing on the full spectrum of knee surgery excluding knee replacement procedures. He has extensive experience in dealing with both professional and amateur athletes through his past roles as Chief of Surgery at the world-renowned Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in Doha, Qatar, and as Fellowship Director at the internationally recognised Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, Ontario, Canada.

Originally from Northern Ireland, he underwent training in Edinburgh, Cambridge and Coventry before moving to Canada in 2012.

Mr Getgood’s clinical practice focuses on complex soft tissue reconstruction of the knee. This spans from first time ACL reconstructions in elite/professional and recreational athletes to tertiary referral multiple revision ligament reconstruction and alignment correction to address problematic pain, instability and deformity.

He has been successful in securing over $10 million in peer-reviewed and industry-funded grants to build his pre-clinical and clinical research programme focusing on complex ligament reconstruction and joint preservation.

Mr Getgood has authored over 220 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters, and has given over 300 national and international conference presentations, lectures and demonstrations.

Chinmay Gupte

Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader…

… (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 Hing

Caroline is a Professor of orthopaedics at St George’s University London…

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.

Raghbir Khakha

Raghbir is a consultant trauma and specialist knee surgeon at Guys and St Thomas’…

… Hospitals. He has a special interest in injuries and disorders of the knee including sports injuries, joint preservation, arthroplasty and paediatric knee conditions.

Mr Khakha completed his undergraduate degree in Trauma and Orthopaedics at University College London, before going on to graduate in his medical training at St George’s Hospital. He went on to pursue a Masters in Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2017 at the University of Brighton.

He completed fellowships focusing on complex ligament, osteotomy, and arthroplasty surgery in Hampshire as well as Trauma in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Mr Khakha is involved in the training and education of fellow surgeons. He is a honorary senior clinical lecturer at Kings College London, and runs courses in postgraduate surgical exams, while continuing to supervise junior surgeons. He is the lead surgeon for South East London in training orthopaedic surgeons in Knee Surgery. He was the co-convenor to one of the biggest online osteotomy courses delivered around the world.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and continues undertaking research projects, with over 25 articles in peer reviewed journals.

 

Stephen McDonnell

Stephen McDonnell is an Academic Knee Surgeon and Associate Professor…

…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.

Mike McNicholas

He is currently a Consultant Trauma & Othopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University…

…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.

Andy Metcalfe

Andy Metcalfe is an associate professor of trauma and orthopaedics…

… at the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire.

He graduated from the University of Sheffield and did his surgical training on the Welsh rotation. He did fellowships in knee surgery at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol, followed by the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre in Australia. His clinical practice is in knee surgery.

His research includes clinical trials in orthopaedics, patello-femoral instability and arthroplasty, ligament and cartilage injuries, knee arthroplasty and osteoarthritis. He also has an interest in novel approaches to improve RCT’s of surgical interventions. He co-leads the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Trauma Orthopaedics and Physiotherapy team. He completed his PhD with the Arthritis Research UK Biomechanics and Bioengineering Centre in Cardiff on biomechanics of gait before and after knee replacement.

Andy maintains an interest in training and teaching and leads the Integrated Clinical Academic Training programme for orthopaedics in the deanery. He is a keen football fan and an enthusiastic (but unskilled) player, and has two young children who keep him active.

 

James Murray

James started his practice as an orthopaedic consultant in Bristol in 2007…

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.

Iain Murray

Iain Murray is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Edinburgh Orthopaedics/Edinburgh…

…Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh. He is orthopaedic lead at the UK Collaborating Centre for Injury and Illness prevention in Sport – one of 11 global International Olympic Committee (IOC) Research Centres of Excellence.

The focus of his practice is sports injuries of the knee and hip. He undertook ACGME accredited clinical fellowship in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Stanford University where he served as Assistant Team Physician for the San Francisco 49ers NFL and Stanford Athletics. He completed a Wellcome Trust funded PhD and postdoctoral training at UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center in California, and at the MRC Scottish Centre of Regenerative Medicine.

He has been awarded the United States Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) New Investigator Recognition Award, the Syme Medal, the Neer Award for Basic Science and has been a British Orthopaedic Research Society Traveling Fellow. He has published over 150 peer reviewed articles and previously served as an Associate Editor for the Bone and Joint Journal and Bone and Bone and Joint Research.

Nick Nicolaou

Nick is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who practices at Sheffield Children’s…

…Hospital. He trained on the South-East Thames Orthopaedic Circuit and completed Fellowship training at Sheffield Children’s, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as completing a travelling fellowship at Inselspital, Berne in Switzerland prior to becoming a Consultant in 2011.

His clinical interest is the paediatric knee. He is chair of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) Sports Study group, a board member at large for the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedics (BSCOS) and the British Patellofemoral Society (BPFS) and Honorary Secretary for the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA).

He is the chair of the current BASK/BSCOS steering committee on paediatric patella instability and also chair for the previous soft tissue knee pathology in children national guidance document.
He is the co-convener of the International Kid’s Knee Conference which has run biannually since 2019 in Sheffield.

Rahul Patel

Rahul Patel is a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University…

…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.

Roberto Rossi

Prof. Roberto Rossi is a specialist in orthopedics and traumatology and holds the position…

…of Full Professor at the University of Turin. He is the author of over 150 publications, 38 book chapters, 5 monographs and 25 scientific cinematography.
He is Director at the University Structure of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital in Turin. Juventus Football Club
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Khaled Sarraf

Khaled Sarraf was appointed as a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Imperial…

…College Healthcare NHS Trust (based both at St Mary’s Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital) and Clinical Lead in paediatric orthopaedics and trauma.

His specialist interest lies in all aspects of trauma, hip and knee conditions and sports injuries of all ages. He is able to perform a wide variety of procedures, including trauma surgery, adult hip and knee reconstructive and joint replacement surgery as well as minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgery and joint preservation surgery.

His academic research interest remain at the forefront of his work with over 40 peer reviewed publications in the orthopaedic literature, multiple book chapters and author of 2 orthopaedic b

Nick Smith

Nick Smith is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in the knee, at…

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.

Sachin Tapasvi

Dr Sachin Tapasvi, is one of the Leading Joint Replacement Surgeons…

… practicing in Pune, boasting of several fellowships and experience garnered internationally as well as in India. He completed his MBBS and M.S. (Ortho) from B.J. Medical College, Pune- with GOLD medals for topping the university in both the courses. He further honed his skills after being selected as an Asia Pacific Fellow at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia from January 1998. Here, Dr Tapasvi was entrusted with the Adult Reconstruction Surgery services comprising Arthroscopy and Joint Replacement. His talent was recognized and lauded with an appointment as the Clinical Tutor to The University of Adelaide.

After returning to India, he began working as a consultant in arthritis, sports medicine, arthroscopy and joint replacement with some of the premier hospitals in Pune – Jehangir Apollo Hospital and Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Oyster and Pearl Hospital. With his healing touch, expert hands and skill that has been honed abroad, Dr Tapasvi now conducts specialty outpatients clinic with a combined patient load of about 80 patients per day. Surgery and the improvement it brings to his patients has always attracted him, and so Dr Tapasvi routinely performs complex surgeries and operates daily at hospitals conducting supra major and major surgeries with Total Knee Replacement (TKR), Revision TKR, Total Hip Replacement (THR), revision THR, arthroscopic knee and shoulder reconstructions. He believes in spreading the knowledge that he has himself earned through fellowships. Currently, he has two fellows – one each sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and Smith & Nephew, each for a duration of 6 months. The deserving candidates are chosen after a detailed interview process. Dr Tapasvi believes that the quest for true knowledge never ends, which is why he continues to update his knowledge and skills by conducting and attending conferences and continuing medical education programs both in India as well as abroad. His initiative called the Pune Knee Course – an annual educational program since 2011, covering everything in knee arthroscopy, is very well received every year.

 

Rhidian Thomas

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon for 25 years, specializing in knee, shin, foot and ankle…

… injuries and arthritis. Has been the match day Orthopaedic surgeon for the English RFU for over 20 years and was heavily involved with the Rugby World Cup 2015. I was one of the medical team leaders in the London Olympics 2012. Has been involved with a variety of professional and amateur sporting clubs including Premier Football and Rugby.

One of the Founding fellows of the faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine and helped establish the training program for Sports and Exercise Medicine in the London deanery as training program Director. Currently President of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA).

 

Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson is a consultant specialist knee and trauma surgeon at the University Hospitals..

…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.

1 Wimpole Street, London

The 2026 Meeting will be held at 1 Wimpole Street, London, please see the address below:

1 Wimpole Street
Westminster
London

W1G 0AE

Car parks are located in Cavendish Square, Marylebone Lane and Chandos Street, all within a five minute walk.

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Based within the home of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street offers the perfect blend of traditional and modern surroundings, located close to Oxford Circus, Bond Street, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane. The venue is a leading central London conference venue with purpose built lecture theatres.

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Oxford Circus station (Victoria, Bakerloo, Central lines) 4 minutes’ walk


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Great Portland Street (Hammersmith & City, Circle lines) 15 minutes’ walk

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The Gatwick Express runs every 15 minutes, non-stop to Victoria Station and takes just 30 minutes. The Heathrow Express runs every 15 minutes to Paddington Station and takes just 15 minutes.

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