Specialists — Ankle Arthritis | Ankle Replacement | Arthrodesis | Ankle Fusion

Mr Andrew Bing

Mr Andrew Bing

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Surgeon

Mr Bing is the Primary Investigator in Oswestry. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Bristol Medical School and his SHO training in the University Hospitals of Leicester. In 2002 he came to Shropshire having obtained a post on the Oswestry/Stoke Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar training programme and has worked in Telford, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Shrewsbury and Oswestry during his rotation.

Mr Steve Bendall

Mr Steve Bendall

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon

Mr Chris Blundell

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon

Mr Blundell is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising exclusively in adult foot and ankle conditions.

Mr Clifford Butcher

Mr Clifford Butcher

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon

Mr Butcher has been a consultant at Aintree since 2002, having trained in the North West, including training under P Wood, one of the country’s leating ankle replacement surgeons. He is part of the diaebtic foot multidisciplinary team and is the Audit and IT lead for the department. His elective work consists entirely of foot and ankle problems but he also does general trauma.

Mr Mike Butler

Mr Mike Butler

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Surgeon

Ms Carolyn Chadwick

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Northern General Hospital, Sheffield (Actively Recruiting)

Mr Nick Cullen

Mr Nick Cullen

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Surgeon

Mr.Cullen graduated from University College and Middlesex Hospitals in 1993 and trained in hospitals in London and Cape Town before taking up his Orthopaedic Surgery rotation based at The Middlesex Hospital in London. Mr.Cullen has undertaken fellowships in the UK studying foot and ankle surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, and in Dallas, USA as part of a British Orthopaedic Foot Surgery Society travelling fellowship.

Mr Tim Clough

Mr Tim Clough

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Tim Clough qualified from the Universities of St Andrews, Scotland and Manchester in 1992. He holds a full time Consultant post at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He is on the Specialist Register as an Orthopaedic Consultant. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford.

Mr Paul Cooke

Mr Paul Cooke

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon

Trial Steering Committee

Mr Paul Cooke is an established international expert in foot and ankle surgery. He qualified in Sheffield in 1977, later gaining FRCS (London) in 1981, and MCh 1990.

Mr James Davenport

Mr James Davenport

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Davenport

Mr Mark Davies

Mr Mark Davies

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

In January 2006, Mr Davies was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in treating elective and traumatic conditions of the adult foot and ankle at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. He qualified from the University of Southampton in 1993 and undertook basic training in London, Oxford and Swindon prior to commencing Orthopaedic training in Sheffield.

Mr Howard Davies

Mr Howard Davies

Mr Howard Davies is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Northern General Hospital, with a private practice at Claremont.

He specialises in all conditions related to the Foot and Ankle in adults including trauma, sports injuries and diabetic feet.

He studied Medicine at Manchester University and completed his basic surgical training in the North West of England. After developing an interest in Orthopaedic Surgery he undertook his higher surgical training in Leeds and Cambridge. During this period he gained an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering from Cardiff University, studying the effects of using locking plates for fractures.

Throughout his training Mr Davies was interested in Foot & Ankle surgery and came to Sheffield to undertake a one year Fellowship in adult Foot and Ankle surgery in July 2010. After this, he became a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the North West and was appointed as a full time Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in October 2013. He is actively involved in research and teaching for the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Rotation.

Mr Sunil Dhar

Mr Sunil Dhar

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Dhar qualified in 1979, his clinical interests in include Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Surgery and paediatric orthopaedics. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Foot and Ankle Society, the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery and the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Mr Andrew Goldberg

Mr Andrew Goldberg

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Goldberg OBE qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College London) in 1994. He is the Chief Investigator on the TARVA trial.

Mr Bill Harries

Mr Bill Harries

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Harries is a NHS Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in the North Bristol NHS Trust. At North Bristol he is the Clinical Director of Orthopaedics and Trauma. He works in the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, and Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. Mr Harries specialises in foot and ankle, knee surgery and sports injuries.

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Mr Paul Halliwell

Mr Paul Halliwell

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Paul Halliwell has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Guildford, Surrey since 2001. He specialises in trauma and problems of the foot and ankle, including those of children. His training included fellowships in Toronto and Great Ormond Street. He is a committed trainer, contributing regularly to national programmes.

Mr Steve Hepple

Mr Steve Hepple

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Hepple has a broad experience in the management of orthopaedic pathology as a result of training in Bristol and Sheffield. He is therefore able to offer consultation in many areas of orthopaedic care, including sports injury. He has experience in total joint replacement of the hip, knee and ankle and in arthroscopic treatment of knee and ankle conditions.

Mr Simon Hill

Mr Simon Hill

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Hill trained at the Birmingham Medical School on the Central Birmingham Basic Surgical Training Rotation and the Oswestry/Stoke Orthopaedic and Trauma Specialist Registrar Rotation from 1997-2003, where he spent his final year in the Foot and Ankle Unit. Travelling Fellowships include to Harbour View, Seattle, USA and to the Ilizarov Centre, Kurgan, Russia.

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Mr Raj Kakwani

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Kakwani specialises in foot and ankle surgery. He has experience in all aspects of this area including bunion surgery, minimally invasive foot surgery, arthritis, ankle replacement and revision ankle replacement, sports injuries and ankle arthroscopy. Mr Kakwani is a recognised surgical trainer and has led regional and national registrar teaching courses. He is also actively involved in research and has published extensively in foot and ankle surgery.

Mr Mike Karski

Mr Mike Karski

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Karski is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wrightington Hospital and is on the specialist register. He qualified from Manchester University in 1999 and underwent his surgical training in the North West of England. He completed his specialist training with a foot and ankle fellowship at Wrightington Hospital, and was awarded a BOFAS travelling fellowship to visit a foot and ankle unit in Baltimore.

Dr Michael Khoo

Dr Michael Khoo

Radiologist

Following his radiology training at St Mary’s Hospital, London, Michael Khoo completed a Fellowship in Musculoskeletal and Spinal Imaging at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Mr David Loveday

Mr David Loveday

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Loveday is a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He qualified in 2001 from King’s College London’s School of Medicine. Mr Loveday’s training was mostly undertaken in East Anglia with specialist foot and ankle fellowships in Cambridge and Liverpool.

Mr Nilesh Makwana

Mr Nilesh Makwana

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Makwana specialises in surgery of the foot and ankle, sports injuries of the foot and ankle, trauma of the foot and ankle, Arthroscopy of the foot and ankle, and Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation.

Mr Chris Marquis

Mr Chris Marquis

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Marquis qualified from the University of Liverpool and then underwent basic surgical training on the Mersey Deanery Rotation, before being appointed on the Stoke/ Oswestry rotation. During his final years of training he underwent sub specialty training in his chosen field of Foot and Ankle surgery, including a Fellowship with the Sheffield Foot and Ankle Unit.

Mr Steve Milner

Mr Steve Milner

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Qualified from Sheffield University, 1990

Basic Surgical Training and Higher Surgical Training in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in Nottingham and Derby

Mr Viren Mishra

Mr Viren Mishra

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Andy Molloy

Mr Andy Molloy

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Andy Molloy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle surgeon at University Hospital Aintree. He graduated from University of Leeds in 1996 and completed his higher surgical training in the Mersey Region, including an emininent international fellowship.

Mr An Murty

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Mark Rogers

Mr Mark Rogers

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Malik Siddique

Mr Malik Siddique

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Siddique has been a Foot and Ankle Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle since 2000. He held Fellowship placements at Texas University, Stanmore University and a visiting Fellowship at Zurich. He is actively involved in the clinical research in the field of foot and ankle surgery and has carried out research projects which have been successfully approved by the ethical committee.

Mr Dishan Singh

Mr Dishan Singh

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Singh was appointed as a clinical senior lecturer in 1995, within the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science with clinical commitments at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Barnet General Hospital.

Mr Robert Smith

Mr Robert Smith

Mr Rhys Thomas

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff, Mr Thomas has continued developing specialist interests in surgery of the foot and ankle. Mr Thomas has a strong interest in sporting injuries and has set up the south Wales sports medicine forum.

Mr Paulo Torres

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

He is a specialist in adult and adolescent foot and ankle surgery. He has specila interests in sports injuries, arthroscopy of the ankle and subtalar joints, ankle replacement and complex hindfoot deformity surgery.

Mr Dave Townshend

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Townshend has been a Consultant at the Northumbria NHS Healthcare Trust since 2010 offering a specialist foot and ankle practice.

Mr Joel Vernois

Mr Joel Vernois

Mr Ian Winson

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Winson has an interest in lower limb problems particularly those affecting the foot and ankle. He is past President of the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS) and sits on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA).

Mr Sandeep Hemmadi

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Hemmadi is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in Adult Foot and Ankle Surgery and Childrens Orthopaedic Surgery.

In 1999 he was appointed as a Consultant to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. This is a large teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre in the Capital City of Wales.

Mr Paul Hodgson

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr Hodgson qualified from Cardiff Medical School in 2000; he trained in orthopaedic & trauma surgery in South Wales before receiving fellowship training in Bristol under Mr Ian Winson. In the NHS he works at both UHW & University Hospital Llandough.

Dr Paul O'Donnell

Dr Paul O'Donnell

Consultant Radiologist

Paul O’Donnell trained in musculoskeletal radiology both at Southampton University Hospitals and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre , and was a Consultant in Bristol before moving to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Mr Declan O’Doherty

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Mr O’Doherty qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1981. I trained in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital and Sheffield, before receiving Fellowship training in Auckland, New Zealand under Prof Harley Gray. He has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust since 1993 and has been the Clinical Director of the Unit for 6 of the last 9 years.

Mr Fred Robinson

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon

Mr Andrew “Fred” Robinson is a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in Foot & Ankle Surgery.

Mr George Smith

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon

Ms Iva Hauptmannova

Ms Iva Hauptmannova

Head of Research & Innovation Centre

Iva Hauptmannova graduated from University of Westminster in 2002, and received a Master’s degree from King’s College London in Medical Law and Ethics in 2003.

Ms Ekaterina Bordea

Ms Ekaterina Bordea

Fellow

Ekaterina completed an MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare at City, University of London and holds a PhD in Economics from City, University of London.

Mr Razi Zaidi

Member

Razi Zaidi qualified from St’Georges Hospital Medical School in 2005. After completing foundation and core surgical training he worked as orthopaedic registrar before undertaking an MD based at the RNOH.

Mrs Deidre Brooking

Clinical Research Coordinator

Deirdre is the TARVA Clinical Research Coordinator based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hosptial. Deirdre has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Reading.

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Mrs Karen Alligan

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Foot & Ankle Surgery

Karen is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the world renowned, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Stanmore.

Mrs Marion Cumbers

Mrs Marion Cumbers

Patient Representative

Marion has a background in computer programming, and after the last of her four children went to school, in IT support in education at various levels. She was elected as a parent governor and was later an OFSTED lay inspector for 11 years.

Dr Stephen Brealey

Trial Coordinator for Methodology

Stephen has a background in Diagnostic Radiography and Health Services Research. His interests include the evaluation of diagnostic tests and interpretation of medical images.

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Mr Nick Welch

Mr Nick Welch

Patient and Public Rep.

Nick spent 35 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry working in sales and marketing throughout the EU before retiring in 2006. He joined the British Orthopaedic Association’s Patient Liaison Group in 2006 and has chaired it since 2012.

Ms Caroline Dore

Ms Caroline Dore

Head of Statistics

Caroline is Head of Statistics at the UCL Clinical Trials Unit. Caroline graduated in Statistics from UCL in 1970 and has more than 40 years experience of collaboration in medical research.

Professor Alison McGregor

Professor Alison McGregor

Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics

Alison is chair of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, where she manages the Human Performance Group.

Professor Amar Rangan

Professor Amar Rangan

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Amar is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Shoulder & Elbow Unit of The James Cook University Hospital.

Professor Damian Griffin

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Damian Griffin is the Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery at The University of Warwick. He trained at Cambridge, Oxford and in the United States and now has a clinical practice in hip surgery for young adults.

Professor Hamish Simpson

Professor Hamish Simpson

Professor of Orthopaedics & Trauma

Professor Simpson is the George Harrison Law Chair of Orthopaedics at the University of Edinburgh, and Editor-in-Chief of the Bone and Joint Research Journal.

Professor Marion Campbell

Professor Marion Campbell

Director, Health Services Research Unit

Marion is the Director of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen where she has worked since 1993.

Professor Nachi Chockalingam

Professor Nachi Chockalingam

Professor of Clinical Biomechanics

Nachi has a doctoral thesis on gait and posture analysis of patients with scoliosis and is the Professor of Clinical Biomechanics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Staffordshire.

Professor Steve Morris

Chair in Health Economics

Steve joined UCL in 2009 and is now the Chair of Health Economics. He has a BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Nottingham, an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, and a PhD in Economics from City University London.

Professor Justin Cobb

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Justin graduated from Magdalen College Oxford in 1982. After 15 years as a consultant at UCLH, he joined Imperial as chair of orthopaedics in 2005. He is involved in the OsteoArthritis Centre, funded by an £11m grant from the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC.

Professor Linda Sharples

Professor in Statistics

Linda Sharples was appointed Professor of Statistics in the Clinical Trials Research Unit in September 2013. There she leads the Comprehensive Health Research Division which has a focus on musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, skin and dental trials.

Professor Mike Hurley

Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Hurley is the research lead for the School of Rehabilitation Sciences. He qualified as a physiotherapist in 1985 and obtained his PhD in 1992.

Ms Liz Clark

Ms Liz Clark

Clinical Project Manager

Liz graduated from King’s College London with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 2008. Liz worked at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL from 2008 – 2016.

Mr James Blackstone

Mr James Blackstone

TARVA Trial Manager

James studied American History at the University of East Anglia, graduating with a BA in 2005 and an MA in 2007, before going on to conduct doctoral research at Clare College, Cambridge.

Miss Miriam Pollard

Miss Miriam Pollard

Clinical Data Manager

Miriam is the Data Manager for the TARVA trial. She graduated in 2016 from Bath University with a BSc in Psychology.

Dr Simon Skene

Principal Statistician

Simon Skene has more than 15 years’ experience, combining research and teaching in Statistics with the Open University and Birkbeck College. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, MSc in Applied Statistics and Operational Research, and completed his PhD in Medical Statistics at LSHTM in 2008.

Mr Torsten Chandler

Mr Torsten Chandler

Health Economist

Torsten is the Trial Health Economist for the TARVA study. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Exeter and an MA in Comparative Business Economics from UCL.

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Mr Steve Bendall

Mr Clifford Butcher

Mr James Davenport

Mr Howard Davies

Mr Andrew Goldberg

Mr Bill Harries

Mr Paul Halliwell

Mr Steve Hepple

Dr Michael Khoo

Mr David Loveday

Mr Nilesh Makwana

Mr Chris Marquis

Mr Steve Milner

Mr Viren Mishra

Mr Malik Siddique

Mr Dishan Singh

Mr Robert Smith

Mr Joel Vernois

Dr Paul O'Donnell

Ms Iva Hauptmannova

Ms Ekaterina Bordea

Mrs Marion Cumbers

Ms Caroline Dore

Professor Alison McGregor

Professor Amar Rangan

Professor Hamish Simpson

Professor Marion Campbell

Professor Nachi Chockalingam

Mr James Blackstone

Miss Miriam Pollard

Mr Torsten Chandler