…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.

…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.

…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.

…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.”

… 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.

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.

…his basic surgical training in the north of England and simultaneously obtained a master’s degree in evidence based orthopaedic studies. He then undertook higher training as a specialist registrar (Calman training scheme) in trauma and orthopaedics within the northern deanery, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Subsequently, Professor Bhattacharya undertook specialist fellowship training in knee surgery at the Edinburgh Knee Unit followed by a trauma fellowship at the Edinburgh Trauma Unit, with a further fellowship in knee surgery at the Southampton Knee Unit.

In 2010 he was appointed as a consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was subsequently appointed as honorary clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.

In 2012 he was elected as the ASG (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) orthopaedic fellow by the British Orthopaedic Association. In 2013 he was appointed as head of trauma and orthopaedics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

In 2016, he took on the post of clinical director for trauma and in 2023, was named divisional director for surgery and cancer at the Trust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

…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.

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.

…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.

…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.

…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.

…his basic surgical training in Reading and Harefield and joined the north west London higher surgical training programme as a specialist registrar in trauma and orthopaedics.

During his training he completed an AO Trauma Fellowship in Hannover, Germany under the supervision of Christian Krettek. He travelled to Perth, Western Australia to gain further experience in sports surgery and joint arthroplasty and completed a fellowship in the Perth Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Centre under the direct supervision of Peter Annear and Jens Buelow.

He also gained experience working with their other surgeons including Keith Holt, Greg Jane and Greg Witherow. Mr Sinha is the clinical lead for rib fracture fixation and paediatric trauma at the north west London major trauma unit, St Mary’s Hospital. He is an integral member of the limb reconstruction unit.

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

…of 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.

Knee Surgeon at Orthoca, Antwerp and Researcher at the Antwerp University and the Monica Research Institute. He is also a Visiting Surgeon at the Aspetar Hospital in Doha, Qatar and an Attending Surgeon at the Antwerp University Hospital. His clinical and research interests are knee surgery and arthroplasty with a particular focus on meniscus substitution and cartilage repair. He has obtained his PhD degree at the Ghent University in 2006 on ‘The Human Meniscus: characterization, transplantation and tissue engineering’. He received his orthopaedic training in Ghent University, and was a fellow of Prof. Bellemans in Leuven and of Prof. Neyret in Lyon. He has been an international traveling fellow of the International Cartilage Repair Society in 2004 and of the European Society of Sport Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy in 2007. He is current president of the Belgian Knee Society (2019-2022) and member of the board of director of ISAKOS. He is author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers and has lectured internationally. He is also involved in a number of national and international scientific organization (ICRS, ISAKOS, ESSKA, ABA, BVOT, BKS,…). For more info www.verdonk.be

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

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

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

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

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