… knee surgery. He practises at Southampton University Hospital, where he is also Professor of Orthopaedic engineering with a special interest in knee joint design. He also has clinics in the private sector at the Spire Hospital in Southampton and at the Wessex Nuffield.

Professor David Barrett developed his intearest in knee surgery following a knee fellowship at Harvard Medical School and subsequently returned to the Institute of Orthopaedics to hold a lecturer’s position developing his research in knee joint design and function.

Following his appointment as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee surgery in 1994 at Southampton University Hospital, this interest led to his appointment as Senior Lecturer and subsequently Reader in the School of Engineering Sciences, Southampton University.

His research interests into knee joint design has led to a novel and productive partnership with the School of Engineering Sciences between the medical and surgical departments of the University Hospital and the School of Engineering Sciences at Southampton University along with the Department of Computational Mathematics.

Currently, Professor David Barrett has developed and researched the concept of partial knee resurfacing with a new type of prosthesis, allowing some or all of the sections of the knee to be treated whilst maintaining the undamaged natural structures.

This more recent development is suitable for the younger, more active patient with early arthritis. The partial nature of this procedure gives rise to a much speedier recovery and much higher activity potential.

…University of Winchester (UK) for his thesis around the use of graft materials during high tibial osteotomy and its implications for returning to physical activity. His current research focus is on the optimisation of cryocompression therapy for rehabilitation from knee surgery.

James currently works as a Research Consultant for Physiolab Technologies Ltd and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Winchester, where he has delivered modules in undergraduate Sport & Exercise Science related to health, rehabilitation, and clinical populations. He received a master’s degree from the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 2014 and an undergraduate degree from the University of Wolverhampton (UK) in 2011. James is also a fluent English and German speaker.

…and partly in Strasbourg, where I discovered my passion for Orthopaedics and Traumatology.

I specialised at the University of Milan, with a thesis on elbow fractures in children that I later published.
I took my study to a three-year world congress (SICOT/SIROT) in Hong Kong in 2008.
I dedicated the first years of my career to paediatric orthopaedics and traumatology as my interest in the knee grew.
Thus, I started attending courses and congresses, as well as visiting the operating theatres of distinguished knee surgery colleagues in Italy and abroad.

I was in Berlin in 2015 at a meeting on revision knee surgery, in Knokke (Belgium) in 2016 at the “PKM”, a European congress on monocompartmental (partial) knee replacements, in Oxford in 2017 at an education course on partial knee replacements, in Valencia, in Bruges …

I believe it is fundamental in my work to meet, compare and collaborate with colleagues.

I worked in 2017-2018 in the Department of Prosthetic Surgery at the Galeazzi (Milan) with Prof. Sergio Romagnoli, a luminary in knee prosthetics and in particular in monocompartmental and bimonus prostheses.
I have recently developed a personal smartphone application in order to better accompany my patients step by step through the surgery and rehabilitation process.
In April 2021 I joined the GMC (General Medical Council), the UK Medical Council, and started working with Professor Barrett as a consultant for Knee Surgery.
In 2022, I joined the European Knee Society as a Junior Member and became a Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in July 2022.
In June 2023 I became a Tutor in Knee Course on “Advanced Course on Unicompartmental Knee Replacement” at ICLO Teaching and Research Center in Verona
In January 2024 I became and Active Member Of the European knee Ho attualmente il ruolo di Academic Visitor all’Imperial College di Londra.

I was invited to join the consultant staff at King Edward VIIth’s Hospital as a Consultant Knee Surgeon working alongside along Prof. David Barrett and Prof. Justin Cobb. I practiced at KEVII Hospital till July 2024.
I have been a member of the regular review board for knee surgery at King Edward VII’s Hospital, where all cases are discussed and evaluated.

I have an active interest in research and academic knee surgery as well as the treatment of complex knee conditions. I am actually an Academic Visitor at Imperial College London at the Department of Mechanical Engineering where I am developing some projects about knee prosthetic design.

… knee surgery. Prior to medical training, Mr Bull completed a degree in engineering and spent time working for a multinational engineering firm in Switzerland. His background in engineering naturally led to an interest in orthopaedic surgery. He gained his medical degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and completed trauma and orthopaedic surgical training in the Yorkshire and Humber region. During his training, he also completed a national leadership and management fellowship.

Mr Bull has specialised in the management of knee disorders through two renowned fellowships. His first fellowship was with Professor Nick London and Mr David Duffy at Harrogate District Hospital, followed by a further fellowship at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol with Mr James Robinson and Mr James Murray. His fellowship experience has allowed him to experience the breadth of modern arthroplasty and soft tissue techniques. He has developed specialist expertise in sports injuries, ligament reconstruction, meniscal repair, early arthritis treatment, patello-femoral joint disorders and joint replacement surgery (partial and total).

He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and specialist knee surgeon at Harrogate District Hospital in 2021.

Mr Bull is involved in teaching trainee surgeons and holds a postgraduate certificate in medical education. He is actively involved in research with numerous publications and has delivered multiple national and international presentations.

…and has a special interest in anaesthesia for knee surgery. He has a particular interested in post-operative care and post-operative analgesia for all types of knee surgery. In his spare time, he likes to collect Incan matrimonial head masks.

…based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He is a specialist lower limb surgeon treating conditions of the knee, foot and ankle. He offers consultations and treatment for private patients at hospitals in Leeds and Harrogate.

…Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk since September 2003. His main field of interest is knee surgery, in particular the treatment of knee cartilage disorders in patients of any age. His most commonly performed operations are keyhole surgery (arthroscopy), realignment operations (osteotomy) and knee replacement surgery (unicompartmental or partial, total and revision). He participates in a trauma rota dealing with emergency admissions (fractures, dislocations, infections).

He is a member of the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) and Beyond Compliance committees, national committees responsible for implant ratings and safe introduction of modified or newly developed implants.

He has been invited to join a newly formed Primary Arthroplasty Working Group by the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK), which is tasked to produce best practice guidelines on total and unicompartmental knee replacements.

The peer-reviewed journal The Knee regularly invites him to assess the suitability of scientific papers for publication.

He is also a member of a European expert panel for the Physica ZUK partial knee replacement and have written chapters in consensus documents on the “Ideal patient for a partial knee replacement” and “How to deal with complications following partial knee replacement”.

…appointed in 1994 and did overseas fellowships in Melbourne, Australia and Seattle, USA. His main specialist interest is in surgery of the knee.

He performs large numbers of knee replacements, both primary and revision.  In 2010 he was voted as one of the top ten UK knee arthroplasty surgeons. He also does large numbers of knee arthroscopies and ligament reconstructions.

He has served on the Executive of BASK (British Association for Surgery of the Knee) since 2006. He reviews papers for the Knee Journal and serve on the Professional Practice Committee of the British Orthopaedic Association.
He also has a medico-legal practice and, as well as doing medical reports for personal injury claims, he has a significant medical negligence practice.