…specialising in Hip and Knee Surgery.

He was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in 2007 having trained in and around London and completed fellowships in knee and revision hip surgery. He is particularly interested in hip disease in the young, minimally invasive surgery and in uncemented ceramic bearing arthroplasty, he uses hip arthroscopy sparingly. He has a specialised practice in revision hip and knee replacement and also in complex primary replacement including for metastatic disease in the pelvis and lower limb.

Some of his research interests are pursued through projects run at the University of Surrey, department of Biomechanical Engineering. He travels abroad to teach and to demonstrate surgery, including trips to multiple cities in China.

… 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.

… Park Hospital in Belfast. He received his MB, BCh, BAO in 1978 from Queen’s University Belfast and completed his professional qualifications to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. In 1985 he completed his MD thesis which investigated the aetiology and significance of vibrations produced by the normal patella. He had two fellowships, the Sir John Charnley Hip Revision Fellowship (Wrightington, England) in 1988 and the Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship with special interest in pelvic and acetabular surgery (Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada) in 1989. In 1990 after completing his training he became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast. Since his appointment he has consistently been a high volume primary joint surgeon and in 1993 set up a unit to record Outcome following primary hip and knee replacement.

…,Knee and Ankle joint replacement.

He Performs approximately 500 to 600 joint arthroplasty each year and has a keen interest in clinical research, implant development and worldwide professional education. He is past President of the Lyon school of Knee Surgery. and currently President of the French Hip & Knee Society

…in 2008 under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Johan Bellemans. Assigned to become a staff member of the Orthopaedic department at the University Hopsital Leuven, he completed a one year clinical and research fellowship in joint reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee at the London Health Science Centre of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, under the leadership of Prof. Steven MacDonald and Prof. Robert Bourne. He completed a travelling fellowship in hip and knee joint reconstructive surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota with Dr. Robert Trousdale and Dr. Arlen Hanssen. Finally, he also completed a clinical and research fellowship in hip joint preservative surgery with Dr. Michael Leunig, PD and Prof. Reinhold Ganz. He then became a full staff member of the Orthopaedic department at the University of Leuven in August 2009 and is the director of the Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Training. His expertise is in the field of hip joint preservative surgery and primary and revision hip replacement surgery.

Dr. Corten started using the direct anterior approach on a regular OR table in 2009. He gradually fine-tuned the approach towards the standard approach for all his primary and revision total hip replacements. When he started with this approach, the surgery was conducted on a regular OR table in the supine position and with the help of 2 additional residents on the table. Over time he managed to standardize the supine approach towards a procedure that can be efficiently conducted with only one resident or scrub nurse assisting. This allowed him to dramatically increase the cost-efficacy of the procedure. He currently conducts over 250 primary THA cases through the DAA per year.

As an academic researcher his main focus is to investigate the functional and biomechanical recovery of patients with a THA. For this research, he received a 3-year clinical research grant from the Catholic University Leuven (KOF grant). In addition, he received a 4- year research grant of the Flemish Fund for Innovation and Technology (IWT-TBM 100786) in order to investigate the biomechanical influence of surgical approach on hip replacements. As the leader of this research project, he collaborates very closely with 4 other Departments of the Catholic University.

…to his native Yorkshire for basic surgical training in Leeds. He completed his orthopaedic training in the Nottingham, and I undertook fellowships in lower limb arthroplasty and trauma in New Zealand, Nottingham and Coventry. He was appointed in 2008 as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and was subsequently made an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick. His interests are primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, surgical planning and simulation, daycase arthroplasty surgery, and the management of orthopaedic infections.

…London Hospital’s Young Adult Hip Unit and an associate professor at University College London. His PhD at Imperial College London contributed to the development of ceramic hip resurfacing, and optimised training and techniques for anterior approach hip arthroplasty. Kartik specialises in complex primary and revision hip replacement, hip resurfacing, hip fractures, and open and arthroscopic hip preservation surgery. Working across UCL and Imperial College, Kartik’s research group is currently focused on developing i) AI-based technologies for femoroacetabular impingement, ii) automated 3D planning in hip surgery, and iii) reducing the burden of periprosthetic fractures after hip replacement.

…medical school in 1977 with the 1st Prize in Surgery and the Cheselden medal. After house jobs in London and Kingston he moved to Birmingham Accident Hospital, at the time, the only Level 1 trauma centre in UK for one year. He met his future wife, Jane, a fellow SHO the first evening in the hospital bar and they are still married 44 years later with three sons, three daughter-in-law’s and four grandchildren.

Derek did the junior registrar rotation in Birmingham, then the orthopaedic registrar rotation and afterwards four years as a senior registrar in Birmingham and Coventry hospitals. He spent a Fellowship year at Endo Klinik, Hamburg with Prof Bucholz and Dr Engelbrecht, the best surgeon Derek has ever had the privilege of being taught by. Also at Hospital for Special Surgery NY with Drs Insall and Ranawat and Mass General Boston with Dr Harris and finally in Birmingham doing research. He was then appointed as a consultant to Royal Orthopaedic Hospital B’ham dealing with elective joint replacement plus running a tertiary referral service for hip and knee revision and Dudley Rd Hospital, then the biggest hospital in Europe for trauma and emergency care.

In his elective practice he developed the stemmed acetabular cup with Waldemar Link for DDH and revision surgery. After 6 years of gradually perfecting prototypes, he pioneered the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing, initially with MMT Ltd. implanting the first BHR 30th July 1997 and then Smith & Nephew Inc. He has trained approx 3,500 hip surgeons in the finer details of performing the BHR and travelled abroad on average every 3 weeks for several years to lecture on hip resurfacing.

Derek has been humbled to have changed many patients lives by his BHR treatment but through training multiple other surgeons he has indirectly changed an army of peoples lives. He led the development of Birmingham Knee Replacement and Polymotion Hip Resurfacing with Jointmedica Ltd.

Derek retired from clinical practice in 2019 but continues to carry on an active research program and a development program for hip and knee replacements of the future…..

…St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Her postgraduate surgical and orthopaedic training were at St Thomas’ Hospital, University College Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. She was appointed as a Consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Whittington Hospital in London and the Royal Northern Hospital in 1984. The same year she was also appointed as Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at University College London. In 1991 she was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where she remains an honorary consultant.

Although Miss Muirhead-Allwood was initially appointed as a general orthopaedic surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, she soon specialised in hip surgery. For the last fifteen years Miss Muirhead-Allwood has exclusively performed primary and revision hip surgery, and lectures on these procedures all over the world. She is a member of the British, European and International Hip Societies.

Miss Muirhead-Allwood set up the London Hip Unit in 2002 to provide a fully supported specialised service for adults with hip problems.

…of the University Hospital in Toulouse, France.

His main focus is hip & pelvis surgery. His clinical practice comprises conservative surgery, primary and complex revision total hip arthroplasty as well as trauma for complex acetabular fractures.

He completed his education in France and then travelled for a fellowship in Oxford, UK and worked in Mayo Clinic, Rochester USA for research.
Board member of French Hip Knee Surgery, he is also member of the European Hip Society and the International Board of the American Association of Hip Knee Surgeons. He published more than 150 peer reviewed publications and book chapters and lectured in various international conferences. 
His research interests modern care in hip surgery such as minimally invasive techniques as a tool to return to intense activities and sport after surgery, personalized patient’s care and musculoskeletal system’s ability to adapt to its environment (biomechanics and anthropological variability) related to his PhD in Anthropobiology.

…and Traumatic Surgery at the University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital and the Mater Hospital. Specialising in joint replacement surgery for 20 years,  Professor Walter is a member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and President of Arthroplasty Society of Australia.
Bill supervises PhD students, Masters students and medical students.   He served as Chairman of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mater Hospital from 2011 to 2014. Professor Walter hosted the International Society for Orthopaedic Centres meeting in Sydney in 2017 and was President of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty in 2012.  In May 2022 Professor Walter was appointed the President of the Arthroplasty Society of Australia.
Professor Walter’s research is published in peer reviewed international arthroplasty journals and was awarded the 2021 Pier Giorgio Marchetti, MD, Award for Distinguished International Alumnus from The Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City.