Orthopaedic surgeons in London

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Professor Richard E. Field is a world-renowned hip and knee surgeon with practices in both the NHS and Private sectors. He is the Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London.  He was appointed on the staff of St Helier Hospital, Surrey in 1994 where his NHS practice was based until the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) opened in 2004. He has been SWLEOC's Director of Research since the centre opened and leads the centre's academic surgical team. His private practices are based at the Lister Hospital in Chelsea and St Anthony’s Hospital in Cheam. Professor Richard Field qualified from the Westminster Hospital in 1980.  His PhD was undertaken at Cambridge University, on the design of a hip resurfacing implant. He has been actively involved in the design and evaluation of new hip and knee designs throughout his career. Professor Field has undertaken many world-first operations. His pioneering work in arthroscopic hip surgery was recognised by his Presidency of ISHA, the International Society for Hip Preservation Surgery in 2016-17. Professor Field has been undertaking hip resurfacing since 1995 and adopted the muscle sparing, Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) for hip replacement in 2008. He is the UK's most experienced surgeon in DAA hip replacement.   Professor Field has built up one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive databases on the outcome of hip and knee replacement and has published extensively on hip preservation and joint replacement surgery. He was an advisor on Hip replacement to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), a board member of the British Hip Society and President of ISHA, the International Society for Hip Preservation Surgery. He continues to teach and lecture, in the UK and abroad, on hip and knee surgery.

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Mr David Houlihan-Burne is a highly-skilled orthopaedic surgeon based in London. Practising from a number of top medical establishments in the capital including the Fortius Clinic, he specialises in knee surgery, sports injuries and arthritis. He regularly teaches and lectures at a number of national and international conferences on field-related matters and was listed in Tatler magazine's Doctors Guide in 2013. He is a former clinical advisor to the Department of Health and pioneered the Rapid Recovery Programme, an innovative patient-centred approach to hip and knee replacement surgery. He provides care for many professional and amateur sportsmen and plays an important role in various professional bodies.

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Mr Pramod Achan is a leading consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in London, specialising in hip and knee surgery, arthroscopy, lower limb joint replacement and sports surgery. Practising at The Princess Grace Hospital in London, he also holds the position of Clinical Director at Barts Health NHS Trust,  and divides his time between practise, contributing to articles in his field, and directing training programmes in Orthopaedics on the prestigious Percival Pott training programme. In 2009, Mr Pramod Achan was one of two upcoming 'Best of British' surgeons chosen to represent the British Hip Society Travelling Fellowship to the USA, as a guest of the American Hip Society.

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Mr Colin Nnadi is an experienced, patient-focused spinal surgeon with a specialist interest in paediatric and adult deformity. He is Clinical Lead for Orthopaedic Spine Surgery in Oxford. As a Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon, he treats all manner of spinal problems, with expertise in a wide variety of conditions, including general spinal disorders, trauma, spinal infections, fractures, and degenerative spinal conditions. Mr Nnadi has performed 2-3000 spinal surgeries in his 15 years of training and practice, seeing over 1000 outpatient cases every year, and performing on average one complex deformity case a week. His approach is friendly, patient-orientated, and allows patients and their families to understand his recommended treatment course and diagnosis. Mr Nnadi is involved in research and development in the field of spinal surgery, and was Chief Investigator for the UK multi-centre MAGEC rods trial in early onset scoliosis. In 2011, Mr Nnadi founded the internationally renowned Oxford Early Onset Scoliosis Meeting, and he has served on several international educational spine faculties. In 2015, Mr Nnadi published a book on early onset scoliosis, which is now sold worldwide, in addition to publishing various papers in peer-reviewed spine journals along with several textbook chapters. Mr Nnadi worked to develop national guidelines on the management of thrombo-embolism in spinal surgery, and in 2016 he was appointed to the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Venous Thromboembolism Guidelines Consultation Committee.

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Mr Rohit Madhav is a highly-experienced Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with specialist training both in the UK and internationally in complex foot and ankle surgery. He has over 8 years’ experience at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and has treated many professional and amateur athletes and dancers. He is a former founding partner of the London Orthopaedic Clinic and has a well-established private practice in Central London. Throughout his long and varied career he has gained considerable knowledge, experience and technical ability in the diagnosis and treatment of lower limb injuries and ailments. These include foot and ankle problems such as bunions, hammer toes, Achilles and other tendon disorders, arthritis, joint replacements, fractures, cartilage and ligament surgery. He is highly-skilled in the use of arthroscopic and other minimally invasive surgical techniques.

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Mr Ahmad Malik is a leading London orthopaedic surgeon specialising in total ankle replacements, Achilles tendon repair, and ankle ligament reconstruction, among others. Well-versed in all aspects of orthopaedic surgery, he is the director and lead surgeon at the London Foot and Ankle Clinic, based at The Princess Grace Hospital in London, the Chiltern Hospital in Buckinghamshire, and Thames Valley Hospital in Wexham. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, Mr Malik completed his surgical training on the West of Scotland surgical rotation, at University College London Hospitals, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, before undertaking fellowships in foot and ankle surgery in Sydney, Australia and with the Surrey Foot and Ankle Group. In 2011, the British Orthopaedic Association awarded him their travelling fellowship to Utah, where he worked with Professor Saltzman. The lead UK surgeon for the latest total ankle replacement surgery, Mr Malik was a sports medicine doctor for the London 2012 Olympics. He has a large sports medicine practice and manages all types of sports-related foot and ankle injuries.

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Mr Stefan Weitzel is a highly experienced Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, who is based in the centre and the Southeast of London and in Kent. He is a specialist lower limb surgeon with a subspecialty interest in surgery of the foot and ankle, lower limb sport injuries, and has extensive expertise in other areas of the lower limb, including knee arthroscopy and arthroplasty. Stefan completed his post-graduate training in some of the UK’s top orthopaedic institutions, such as the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, The Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. He has trained under esteemed orthopaedic leaders such as Professor Tim Briggs at The RNOH and the late Mr Hugh Phillips in Norwich. Having worked as a substantive consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the NHS at Queen Mary’s in Sidcup, Kent, from 2004 and later under King’s College Hospital Trust, he decided to work exclusively in the independent sector from 2015. He continues to practise in several locations in the South-East, but recently expanded his presence into town with HCA at London Bridge and the Shard, the City of London Medical Centre and with LycaHealth at Canary Wharf, where he continues to provide expertise and excellence in care to his patients.

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