Faculty

Kash Akhtar

Mr Akhtar specialises in all aspects of knee injuries and treatments. He has a particular expertise in sports injuries, arthroscopic knee surgery, meniscal surgery and repair, cartilage injuries, knee ligament reconstruction (including multiligament injuries), realignment surgery and unicompartmental (partial) knee replacement.

His academic research focuses on achieving the best patient outcomes through evidence-based practice and optimising patient safety through surgical education and training using cutting edge techniques.

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.

Leela Biant

Leela trained in London, with fellowships in Sydney and London. She spent 8 years as T&O Surgeon in Edinburgh before moving to Manchester in 2016.
Her thesis was on Articular Cartilage Injuries in the Young Adult Knee. She was an ABC Fellow in 2010, and has won multiple awards for research. She has been peer-selected as one of the global top 15 cartilage repair surgeons to attend summits on advancing the science and surgery of cartilage repair, is an elected ICRS Senior Fellow, and founded the ICRS Global non-arthroplasty patient registry. Leela is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Biological Knee Society in recognition of her work in this field.

Her clinical and research interests are in cartilage assessment and repair, biological regenerative surgery and arthroplasty. She currently serves as BASK Treasurer, ICRS Board and Chair of the Registry Committee, and on the British Orthopaedic Association Research Committee. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and has authored many books including the latest edition of Grays Anatomy.

Roland Biedert

Dr Roland Biedert is a prominent knee specialist consulting as founder at the SportsClinic#1 in Berne, Switzerland. Before, he was head of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center in Magglingen, Switzerland. His special interests include sports injuries and the patello-femoral joint. He is a member of the International Patellofemoral Study Group, the Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch-Traumatologische Sportmedizin (GOTS), ESSKA (1984-2020), and was a member of the ACL study group for more than 20 years. In 1998, he won the Research Prize of the GOTS, and in 2007 be became sports physician of the year of the GOTS.

He is the association doctor of swisstennis and was the physician of the Swiss national soccer team, CMO of the athletic Diamond League Meeting Weltklasse in Zürich, and orthopaedic consultant for the Alinghi sailing team.

He also holds the position of emeritus Professor of the Department of sports traumatology and orthopaedics at the University of Basel. Dr Biedert has published widely in the medical press and wrote a book about Patellofemoral Disorders.

Simon Ball

Mr Ball specialises in all aspects of knee surgery.

Mr Ball is an extremely 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.

Nev Davies

Nev Davies is a trauma and orthopaedic consultant working in Reading UK with a specialist interest in children’s and adolescent knee injuries. He has a dual practice of children’s orthopaedics, but also an adult knee practice, so manages all knee conditions from cradle to grave. Nev is passionate about Injury Prevention and a trustee of Power Up to Play charity. He is one of the leading members of a UK task force looking to design, set up and implement a national children’s injury prevention program that will tackle this topical issue.  Out of work Nev is scratch golfer and was lucky enough to play in The Open Qualifiers for the last 2 years. 

Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson is a Knee Surgeon who specialises in sports injuries and degenerative conditions affecting the knee. He is a leading authority on osteotomy and Joint Preservation surgery in the UK and Europe.

Having completed his Orthopaedic training in London and a Sports Knee Fellowship in Dublin, Mr Dawson joined North Cumbria University Hospital in 2001.

Mr Dawson believes in the principle of joint preservation in order to prolong knee activity and knee function to the highest level. His philosophy is to individually assess patients with the appreciation that alignment and stability of the knee are the bedrock to successful knee function and successful surgery.

Mr Dawson is committed to the education of healthcare professionals. He hosts a successful fellowship in Osteotomy and Knee surgery at North Cumbria University Hospital and lectures locally, nationally, and internationally. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of osteotomy.

Mr Dawson is working at the leading edge of knee osteotomy surgery with device technologies, surgical applications, and teaching techniques. He is a driver in several research projects in the field. Currently Mr Dawson is collaborating with a leading American company and European colleagues with a groundbreaking technology aimed at increasing accuracy of osteotomy surgery. This innovative technology permits correction of alignment to occur under precise post-operative control using a magnetic remote control device. Mr Dawson is the first UK surgeon to perform this surgery.

Al Getgood

Dr. Al Getgood is an orthopaedic surgeon and clinician scientist specialising in complex knee reconstruction. He completed his primary medical degree (MBChB) at the University of Edinburgh in 2000 followed by orthopaedic residency in July 2010, which included completing a research Doctorate (MD) in orthopaedic sciences. His fellowship training included time in London (Ontario), Banff (Alberta) and Coventry (UK). In September 2012 he moved to Western University in Canada to work at the world renowned Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic in London Ontario.

Dr. Getgood’s clinical practice focuses on complex soft tissue reconstruction of the knee. He has been successful in securing peer reviewed and industry funded grants to build his pre-clinical and clinical research program focusing on joint preservation. Particular achievements include being awarded the MTF Junior Investigator award and the ISAKOS/OREF funding award.

Dr. Getgood has authored 48 peer-reviewed articles, 7 book chapters, edited 1 book and 1 journal issue. He has given over 85 national and international conference presentations, lectures and demonstrations. He is a past General Board Member of the ICRS and sits on the Sports Medicine committee ISAKOS. Dr. Getgood is also a member of the International ACL study group and the AOSSM.

Christine Holm Moseid

Paul Jermin

I am a fully elective knee surgeon in Oswestry. I have a specialist interest in joint reconstruction / preservation surgery. I am an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Keele & the Director of Medical Education at Oswestry. I am the founder & I run the national complex cartilage meeting, a national monthly online meeting where complex cases are discussed. This is an open meeting that anyone can join to discuss cases or for educational purposes.

Will Jackson

William works as a dedicated specialist knee surgeon treating all paediatric and adult knee conditions. He has a particular interests in sports knee injuries and arthroscopic ligament reconstructions, management of arthritis in younger more active patients including use of partial knee replacements.

William works as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He qualified in 1997 from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London. He completed his specialist Orthopaedic training in Oxford. In 2007 he undertook 12 months of specialist fellowship training in knee surgery at the internationally renowned North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre under the tutelage of Dr Leo Pinczewski, one of the pioneers of modern techniques in ACL reconstruction. He returned to the UK for a further 6/12 fellowship in Oxford prior to his consultant appointment at the N.O.C.

He is extensively involved in the knee research Programme in Oxford and works closely with University Academics on many on going research projects. He is involved in research across the whole pathway from optimising pathway for delivery of care through to design of new implants. William has introduced outpatient Knee replacement surgery for suitable patients in Oxford. This has involved optimising all areas of care to make sure patients pain is well controlled and minimising effects from the surgery and anaesthesia.  In 2017 2/3 of his knee replacement patients will be able to go home either on the day or day after their operation.

William is involved in teaching surgeons around the world about ligament reconstructions, “Oxford” partial and total knee replacements. He is regularly invited to lecture at courses and conferences within the UK and overseas.

He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the British Association of Knee Surgeons (BASK).

Elizaveta Kon

Head of Department of Translational Orthopaedics at Humanitas Hospital.

Professor Elizaveta Kon started and matured her experience in scientific research, especially in the field of regenerative medicine, as well as in clinical and surgical practice at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute and University of Bologna, as part of the team of Prof. Maurilio Marcacci. She has been responsible for the Nano Biotechnology Laboratory of the RIT Department (Research, Innovation and Technology) of the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute from 2012 to 2017.

She has obtained the National Scientific Ability for Professor of the Competition Sector 06 / f4: Locomotor System Physics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

She has been co-chairing various boards of national and international scientific societies (ESSKA, ICRS and SIGASCOT). She currently holds the role of General Secretary of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)

Professor Kon is responsible for several European and national research projects in the field of regenerative medicine.

She has been a lecturer at several Bachelor and Master Degrees.

Aaron Krych

Aaron Krych is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA. He is also Director of the Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine Fellowship and Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine Research Fellowship.

He received his MD and Orthopedic Surgery Residency training at Mayo Clinic. He completed his sports fellowship training at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in 2010. He was an ICRS Travelling Fellow in 2013. His clinical focus has been on cartilage restoration in the hip and knee, and knee osteotomy and meniscus transplant. His research interests include improving cartilage allograft, adipose-derived MSC injection for hip and knee arthritis, and single stage cell-based cartilage repair.

Bert Mandelbaum

Bert R. Mandelbaum, M.D., D.H.L (Hon.) is among the world’s foremost experts in the diagnosis and treatment of orthopedic conditions, especially those related to the knee. He practices at and serves as Co-Chair of Medical Affairs for the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Mandelbaum spends most of his time there, helping heal patients who have experienced orthopedic injury.

Due to his vast expertise, Dr. Mandelbaum’s clinical acumen and skill are sought by some of the world’s most prestigious athletic organizations. He currently serves as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Major League Soccer, Medical Director for the FIFA Medical Center of Excellence in Santa Monica, Co-Director of The USOC CSS National Medical Center of Excellence and resides on the USOC National Medical Network Advisory Group. Dr. Mandelbaum also served as Chief Medical Officer for the 2015 World Special Olympic Games in Los Angeles; Chief Medical Director for the 2016 Copa America Centenario and CONCACAF; FIFA IOC Medical Officer for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Chief Medical Officer for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Dr. Mandelbaum received his medical degree in 1980 from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO. He went on to complete his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in Sports Medicine from UCLA, where he also served as a faculty member from 1986-1989 before going into private medical practice.

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.

Volker Musahl

After earning his medical degree at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany, Dr. Volker Musahl moved to the United States, where he completed his residency at UPMC and fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery Sports Medicine and Shoulder in New York City.

He is assistant editor-in-chief for KSSTA. Dr. Musahl is recognized by Best Doctor’s Inc. on the 2016 Best Doctors List in Pittsburgh Magazine.

Dr. Musahl is co-director of the Orthopaedic Robotics Laboratory and his research interests include bioengineering research of the knee and shoulder. Dr. Musahl specializes in sports medicine. Currently, Dr. Musahl is associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, program director of the sports medicine fellowship program, and medical director at the UPMC Rooney Sports Medicine Complex.

He is the co-head team physician for the University of Pittsburgh Varsity Football Team. Dr. Musahl provides comprehensive care for patients of all ages with injuries to the knee, shoulder, and elbow.

Sean O’Leary

Mr Sean O’Leary is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Circle Reading Hospital.

Sean’s early medical training (1983-9) was at Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College) and St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

His specialist orthopaedic training began in 1995 on the NW Thames rotation (London) and culminated in 2000 with Fellowships in knee arthroplasty (replacement) and knee ligament reconstruction at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne and The Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He started as a consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in January 2002.

He specialises in all aspects of knee surgery including arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery, ligament (ACL) reconstruction, realignment surgery (osteotomy) and partial/total joint replacement. With his extensive sporting background, he also has a strong interest in sports knee injuries and their management.

Most of his early years were spent training and playing various sports, which included athletics (National schools 400 m hurdles) and basketball (National League with Plymouth Raiders).

He went on to spend 13 years playing first class rugby with Wasps, Bath and Saracens, gaining representative honours for Middlesex, London division, the Barbarians, England ‘B’ team (1988-91) and the 1991 England World Cup squad.

More recently, he has turned his attention to indoor rowing (British Indoor Championship), cycling and the occasional real ale.

Stephen McDonnell

Mr McDonnell is a University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Knee and Hip Surgeon. His research interests are aimed at the identification and stratification of patients with early knee osteoarthritis, and defining their phenotypic features. He works closely with the department of radiology using novel imaging techniques. This is aimed at providing a personalised treatment aimed at the different phenotypes of early knee OA. He is the centre co ordinator for the ADIPOA2 clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of autologous adipose derived stem cells in the treatment of advanced OA of the knee. He undertook his previous research MD and orthopaedic surgical training in Oxford, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He undertook a specialist knee and hip “Sports and Joints” fellowship in Melbourne with the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group.

Vipul Mandalia

Vipul Mandalia obtained his orthopaedic training with the Wessex Deanery. His fellowship training in knee surgery included leading centres in the UK and the USA (University of Alabama, University of Pittsburgh). Vipul has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital since 2009.

His practice includes all aspects of knee surgery, including tertiary referrals for young knee arthritis, multi-ligament injury, meniscus repair, cartilage and meniscus transplant and complex patellofemoral surgery. He also provides treatment for complex knee trauma and sports knee injury in elite national and international sports persons. He performs partial and total knee replacement and uses advanced technology including robotic assisted knee replacement. He has developed and published surgical techniques on a number of surgical procedures.

Vipul is involved in education at various levels. He has been on the education committee of British Indian orthopaedic society for three years. He is the course convenor for the annual Exeter Knee Masterclass and other European knee courses. He has presented as an invited speaker at various national and international conferences.

As a research lead for the Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, he coordinates research projects in the department and has been a principle / chief investigator of various research projects. He is involved in multicentre international trials including that of cartilage transplantation. His research area not only includes the clinical outcomes of various surgical treatments but also the cellular and molecular effect of various treatment modalities on the knee joint and biomechanics of fixation devices. With his strong research background, he has authored a large number (over 50) of peer review publications, review articles and a book chapter.

Iain Murray

“Iain Murray is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Edinburgh Orthopaedics/Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh.  The focus of his practice is sports injuries and joint preservation.  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.

The central goal of his research is the clinical translation of regenerative therapies.  He undertook Wellcome Trust funded doctoral and postdoctoral training at UCLA Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center, 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.

Iain serves as Associate Editor at the Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ) and Bone and Joint research (BJR), and is a member of the International Society for Cellular Therapies (ISCT) musculoskeletal committee and the Biologics Association.”

Nicolas Nicolaou

Nick is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon 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 prior to becoming a Consultant in 2011. 

His clinical interest is the Paediatric Knee and he treats the whole spectrum of pathology from cruciate, chondral and meniscal injuries to deformity correction, congenital ligament deficiency and complex patellofemoral problems. He also has a clinical practice in the treatment of Osteogenesis Imperfecta and is research lead for his Department. 

He is the chair of the BASK/BSCOS steering committee on soft tissue knee pathology in children which aims to improve national standards of care and co-convener of the International Kid’s Knee Conference. He is also the Academic Secretary of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma & Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA). 

Philip Niemeyer

Professor Philipp Niemeyer is member of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatolgy of the Freiburg University Hospital (Germany, Director: Prof. Dr. N. P. Südkamp) and head of the divsion of knee surgery and cartilage repair. After graduating from the University of Freiburg in 2002, he began his clinical training at the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany, Prof. Dr. V. Ewerbeck), which he continued in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Freiburg. Since that time, he conducts research into preclinical and clinical aspects of the regeneration of cartilage tissue. In addition to publishing various scientific papers in this area he was awarded in 2005 with the Kurt Steim Award of the University of Freiburg in 2012 and the Research Prize of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC). In 2013 he became Associate Professor at the Freiburg University, he is vice-president of the German-Speaking Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) and board member if the German Knee Society (DKG). Furthermore, he is initiator of the German Cartilage Registry which has been introduced in 2013. Since 2016, Philipp Niemeyer is Consultant Surgeon at the OCM in Munich, Germany (Orthopädische Chirurgie München).

Andrew Pearle

Dr. Andrew D. Pearle is the Chief of the Sports Medicine Institute at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.  He is a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon, specializing in Sports Medicine.  Dr. Pearle’s clinical interests include knee and shoulder surgery.  He is a Team Physician for the New York Mets and Rugby United New York, the NYC professional rugby team.  He is also former Editor-in-Chief of the Orthopedic Journal Techniques in Knee Surgery.  Dr. Pearle is internationally known for his pioneering work in ACL reconstruction and robotic knee surgery.

James Robinson

James is a Specialist Knee Surgeon based at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol.

He trained in London and his postgraduate Master of Surgery degree was on the biomechanics of the posteromedial corner. James’ fellowship training was at the Clinique du Sport, Bordeaux-Merignac and at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. He recently undertook an 18-month sabbatical to work in the UAE at the International Knee and Joint Centre.>

He has published many research articles and book chapters on knee surgery and has received awards for this both nationally and internationally. His ACL research won the British Association of Surgery of the Knee President’s medal. 

James has developed instrumentation and techniques for arthroscopic surgery, andhe is regularly invited to lecture and teach internationally on aspects of sports related surgery, such as ligament reconstruction, meniscal repair and osteotomy.

His other roles include: member of the Arthroscopy committee for ESSKA (European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy), member of the ESSKA Collateral ligaments Working Group, member of the international ACL Study group. He is a reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and is on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Arthroscopy. He sits on the steering committee for the UK National Ligament registry.

Claire Robertson

Claire Robertson qualified in 1994 with a BSc(hons) Physiotherapy. She has since obtained her MSc Physiotherapy, in 2003, and PGCE in 2006. Claire has worked in the NHS, academia and private practice, and currently runs a specialist patellofemoral clinic at Wimbledon Clinics spending an hour per patient and liaising closely with their treating clinician. .Claire is also the physiotherapist for the Warren Smith ski academy.

Claire has lectured internationally and has many research papers and editorials published in internationally peer-reviewed journals. She is also a reviewer herself for Physiotherapy Research International, Physical Therapy in Sport, Clinical Anatomy and Physiotherapy. Claire runs her own post-graduate course on patellofemoral problems for physiotherapists.

Feisal Shah

Feisal Shah is a consultant specialist knee surgeon based at The University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Feisal qualified from Liverpool Medical School and sought to gain expertise in knee surgery with a particular emphasis in sports knee injuries, young adult knee problems and knee arthroplasty surgery. He secured prestigious fellowships in the UK and in Sydney, Australia.

Feisal provides clinical expertise in ACL and PCL ligament repairs and reconstructions. He has a tertiary level practice including revision ligament reconstructions and treating patients with prior failed treatments. He undertakes meniscal and joint preservation surgery where it is possible. He has a keen interest in multi-ligament reconstructions. Feisal supports research in meniscal injuries as a Principle investigator

Petri Sillanpaa

Petri Sillanpää MD, PhD, is working at Dextra Hospital Tampere Finland. He is an expert  in knee and sports medicine, especially patellofemoral joint and pediatric knee disorders. He also lectures at the University of Tampere, pediatric orthopedics and has published many patellofemoral studies. His academic dissertation took place in Tampere University in 2009, titled: “Traumatic Patellar Dislocation and Clinical Significance of Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Injury”.

Petri is current president of Finnish Arthroscopy Association and board member of Finnish Knee Association.  He is a member of ISAKOS Knee: Sports & Preservation Committee and

member of ESSKA education committee. Petri was selected for ISAKOS patellofemoral traveling fellowship in 2010,  and visited many high level centers in USA. He was also selected for ESSKA-APKASS travelling fellowship  in 2012. He is a member of IPSG (International Patellofemoral Study Group) since 2012.

Martyn Snow

Professor Martyn Snow 

Professor Snow is a consultant knee and shoulder surgeon at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham and the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, which are 2 of only 5 purely Orthopaedic Hospitals in the country. 

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

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

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

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

Tim Spalding is a specialist knee surgeon in the Midlands at Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital. His focus is on ligament reconstruction and knee preservation covering meniscal repair and meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, osteotomy, and novel Ortho-Biologics. He also works in London at Cleveland Clinic London where he is part of a team of expert orthopaedic surgeons.

He spent the first part of his career with the Royal Navy, becoming consultant in 1995. Specialist training was in Oxford with subsequent fellowship in Toronto. He joined University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2000, where he set up meniscal transplantation and lead a well-respected fellowship program before leaving in 2021. Research work continues with the Coventry knee team.

He has pioneered several new techniques and currently has over 100 publications and 12 book chapters. He leads the UK National Ligament Registry for ACL surgery. Internationally, he is past-president of the ACL Study Group, and co-leads the European Allograft Initiative and the ICRS Cartilage Foundation.

Nick Smith

Nick’s clinical and academic interest is in knee and sports surgery. He obtained Arthritis Research UK funding to undertake a pilot randomised control trial comparing meniscal allograft transplantation to non-operative treatment and subsequently completed a PhD in this area. He has authored several papers and won a number of prizes for his research in knee surgery, including the Robert Jones Medal this year. 

Ciara Stevenson

Ciara Stevenson is a consultant specialist knee and trauma surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
She qualified from Queens University Belfast in 2006 and completed specialist training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery in Northern Ireland in 2016. She then completed a fellowship in Sports Knee and Arthroplasty Surgery with Dr Peter Myers and Dr Tim Mc Menamin at the Brisbane Orthopaedic Sports Medical Centre (Australia) followed by a second fellowship with Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at University Hospital Coventry.
During training/fellowship she has published in peer reviewed international journals on topics such as allograft use in ACL reconstruction, CTPA in lower limb arthroplasty, minimal incision arthroplasty and meniscal allograft transplantation. She has presented at both national and international meetings to include BASK, Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and Asia Pacific Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Society meetings (APKASS) on her research involving meniscal allograft transplantation. She has co-written a book chapter on Medial Collateral Ligament injuries published in 2017.
Ciara has both a trauma and elective clinical practice to include knee dislocations/multi-ligament knee injury, elective ACL/PCL/MPFL reconstructions, patella re-alignment, meniscal repair/transplantation, osteotomy and arthroplasty. She is committed to training junior surgeons in Belfast, and is a clinical supervisor for the Northern Ireland rotation. Ciara is an active member of ISAKOS, ESSKA and BASK.

Mark Strauss

Marc studied medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, with a degree from 2002. After finishing his orthopedic training in Denmark, Marc continued with a sub-specialization in Orthopedic Sports Medicine with professor Martin Lind in Aarhus Denmark. In 2012 he completed a one-year clinical fellowship in Sports Medicine with professor Lars Engebretsen. He holds an IOC Diploma of Sports Medicine.

Marc is employed at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, department of orthopedic surgery, Olympiatoppen/Olympic Training Center, and the Norwegian Ski Federation.

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.

Peter Verdonk

Professor Dr Peter Verdonk, MD, PhD is a full time Consultant Orthopaedic 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 

Lucienne Vonk

Lucienne Vonk, PhD, is currently Director Musculoskeletal Diseases at Xintela AB (Sweden) and Senior Researcher at the Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU, the Netherlands). She received her PhD on tissue engineering of various cartilage tissues in 2010 (Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands), whereafter she joined the department of Orthopaedics at the UMCU. From 2019 – 2022 she headed the scientific department at CO.DON AG (Germany).

Her research focuses on biological musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, including cell-based therapies and enhancing clinical therapeutic potential via intercellular communication. She is mainly active in translational and clinical research, including phases I/II, III and PIP studies.

She has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has been invited speaker at many (inter)national meetings. She collaborated in several research consortia and attracted over 3 million Euro funding for her research. Dr. Vonk was an International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society (ICRS) scientist travelling fellow in 2015. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including the ICRS Young Investigator Award in 2016, various best abstract awards from ICRS, European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and  American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), best basic science research awards (2021, 2015) by the Netherlands Orthopedic Association (NOV), finalist for the Dick Heinegård Young Investigator award by Matrix Biology Europe in 2014, and the systematic review award by the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) in 2013.

Dr. Vonk is Senior & Social Media Associate Editor of the Journal of Cartilage & Joint Preservation. She is currently deputy co-chair of Translational Research committee of the ICRS, has been active in several other ICRS committees and was program co-chair for the ICRS World Congress in Vancouver in 2019. She is also co-founder and basic science chair of the German National ICRS cartilage club and member of the board of directors of International Regenerative Medicine Experts Society (IARMES). From 2011 – 2019, she served as Treasurer in the Executive Board of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology (NVMB) and of the organizing board of Matrix Biology Europe (Federation of European Connective Tissue Societies) meeting 2014 in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

Andy Williams

Knee surgeon at, and founder of 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. 80-90% 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 130 peer-reviewed articles: some award-winning. His 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 clinical outcomes in elite athletes. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy.

He was on the executive of British Association for Surgery of The Knee. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously that of The Bone and Joint Journal, and is a board member of ISAKOS. He was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship (2002). 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 organisation.

Chris Wilson

I am orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff and in Cardiff University and have for  a long time practiced what has become known as knee preservation surgery,  with a big experience of osteotomy round the knee, as well as the allied procedures of ligament and meniscal reconstruction. 

Imran Ahmed

Imran Ahmed, Orthopaedic Registrar on the Warwick Orthopaedic Rotation and previous NIHR doctoral research fellow at the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.

Having completed Undergraduate training at Imperial College London, Imran completed an Academic Foundation post at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire before securing a highly competitive Academic Clinical Fellowship supervised by Andrew Metcalfe. During this post he completed a range of research projects working closely with the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit obtaining several publications and international presentations. Following this post he was successful in obtaining a NIHR doctoral research fellowship grant to complete his PhD at the University of Warwick.

His PhD thesis was titled ‘The treatment, expectations and outcomes of patients aged 18 to 55 with a meniscal tear of the knee.’ This work was supervised by Prof Andy Metcalfe, Andrew Price, Charles Hutchinson, Sophie Staniszewska and Nick Parsons. As part of this work, Imran set up and completed a multicentre national cohort study (the Meniscal tear outcome study (METRO). Several of his chapters have been published and he has gone on to present the findings at national conferences winning a presentation award at BASK 2023.