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Mr Andrew (Andy) Goldberg is a world leading expert who specialises solely in foot and ankle conditions and his practice is entirely focused on listening to patients' needs and he believes strongly in outcomes-based treatments. He is known for his non interventional approach and helpful neutral opinions and only recommends surgery when he believes it is in your best interest.  By working in a multidisciplinary setting, including podiatrists, physiotherapists, Pilates instructors and orthotists, Mr Goldberg helps avoid surgery on more than 85% of patients he sees.

Have you suffered a nasty injury? Are you suffering from pain in your foot or ankle? If so then Mr Goldberg is an excellent opinion to help advise you on the best treatment options.

Mr Goldberg carries out more than 10 times the national average in number of ankle replacements per year and is the Editor in Chief of The Atlas of Ankle Replacements, and is the Chief Investigator on the world's only randomised controlled trial comparing ankle replacements with ankle fusion for ankle arthritis (TARVA Trial).

Mr Goldberg is fellowship trained and is a Visiting Professor in Trauma & Orthopaedics at Imperial College London and runs large national clinical research studies to discover new and innovative treatments. Mr Goldberg was awarded an OBE by the Queen in 2011 for services to Medicine. Mr Goldberg lectures internationally and is well-published in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited over 2500 times by other researchers.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Regenerative Medicine Techniques
• Ankle Replacement
• Ankle Fusion
• Achilles Repair
• Ankle Arthroscopy
• Bunion surgery
• Ankle Fracture
• Ankle Sprain
• Bunion
• Foot Pain
• Any ankle and foot surgery
• Ankle Replacement
• Ankle Fusion
• Flat Foot
• Stem Cell Treatments
• Hammer Toes
• Ankle Arthroscopy
• Heel Pain
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Talar Osteochondral Lesions
• Cartilage Repair

Mr Giles Stafford is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip surgery, in particular, Young Adult and Sports Hip Injuries. He qualified in 1999 from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, followed by training by Bart’s and The London. He then completed an orthopaedic training programme at the North West Thames Foundation School (Imperial College London). Subsequently, he completed Fellowships at UCLH, Norfolk and Norwich and Cambridge.

Mr Stafford is fully trained in hip and knee surgery and has had years of clinical experience adding to his field of expertise. His speciality includes hip arthroscopy and sports hip injuries and provides his expertise by teaching hip arthroscopy courses. Apart from his clinical work, he has published numerous peer-reviewed journals and regularly presents at conferences both nationally and internationally.

Mr Stafford works at Sport Hip London and works with Sports Physicians and Physiotherapists, allowing patients to receive the best possible care before and after surgery. He also believes in providing each of his patients a tailored approach in treating whichever hip injury they have. With a good understanding of the hip problem, the correct treatments can be selected for the patient.

He often uses specialist techniques called ‘Enhanced Recovery’ for patients who require a hip replacement, minimizing post-operative pain and complications. In addition, he uses 3D printed instrumentation and implants customised for his patients.

• Hip Arthroscopy 
• Hip Replacement  
• Hip Resurfacing 
• Minimally Invasive Hip Surgery 
• Revision Hip Replacement
• Custom Hip Replacement
• Hip Preservation Surgery
• Labral Repair
• Surgery for Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)
• Muscle / Soft Tissue Repair

• Hip Impingement 
• FAI
• Labral repair
• Sports Injuries 
• Rehabilitation (after orthopaedic surgery)
• Hip Replacements for Sports People
• Bone Conserving Hip Replacement
• Customised Hip Replacement

Richard Field is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in the management of hip related problems. He is the Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, St George's University of London. His NHS clinical practice is undertaken at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) where he has been the Director of Research since 2004. His Private Practice is undertaken at The Lister Hospital in Chelsea, at Spire St Anthony's Hospital in Cheam, Surrey and occasionally at SWLEOC.

Prof Field is the UK's most experienced surgeon in Direct Anterior (minimally invasive, muscle sparing) Hip Replacement and has been using this approach since 2008. He uses the standard longitudinal and the less visible, bikini incisions, as appropriate. He lectures internationally and has operated with surgeons in more than ten countries. He is a pioneer of Arthroscopic Hip surgery and was the President of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA - www.ISHA.net) in 2017. He was the first surgeon in the London area to adopt hip resurfacing and continues to use the Birmingham Resurfacing Hip (BHR) in selected patients. Prof Field has been actively involved in the design and evaluation of new implant designs since 1983. He is currently undertaking clinical studies on short femoral stem implants as well as some of the new generation of hip resurfacing designs. He is comfortable using robotic assisted surgery and patient specific custom cutting blocks to achieve optimal component alignment, where appropriate. Patients wishing to be considered for inclusion in studies on new implants may need to be treated at SWLEOC.

Prof Field completed his medical training at the Westminster Hospital in 1980 and went on to hold positions at a number of hospitals across London, including St Stephen's Hospital, University College Hospital, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. After being awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1988, he continued to his specialist training in Orthopaedics in London, Cambridge and Melbourne. He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Helier Hospital, Surrey in 1994. Over the past 25 years, he has gained enormous experience in complex sports and developmental related hip problems and is a world leader in hip preservation and rapid recovery hip replacement surgery.  He continues to undertake over 200 hip operations per year. He has previously been an adviser to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

• Direct Anterior Approach Hip Replacement
• AMIS hip replacement
• Bikini Incision Hip Replacement
• Arthroscopic femoroacetabular impingement surgery
• Arthrosocpic labral repair - hip
• Arthroscopic labral reconstruction - hip
• Arthroscopic Iliopsoas decompression and release
• Iliotibial band decompression
• Abductor muscle repair - hip
• Trochanteric bursectomy
• Hip Arthroscopy
• Hip Replacement
• Hip Resurfacing

• Sports Injuries - Hip
• Young Adult Hip Conditions
• Hip Preservation Surgery 
• Muscle Sparing Hip Replacement
• Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement
• Implant design and evaluation

Mr Rob Pollock specialises in the management of hip and knee conditions as well as bone and soft tissue tumours throughout the body. He is the Clinical Director of the Joint Reconstruction and Sarcoma Units at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital where he was appointed as a Consultant in 2004. He has extensive experience in first time and revision hip and knee replacements and limb salvage surgery for musculo-skeletal tumours.  

He qualified at University College London in 1993 with a first class honours degree. His orthopaedic training took place in various London teaching hospitals including UCLH, St Mary's and the RNOH. He then undertook fellowships in Sydney, Australia and Denver, USA where he gained experience in hip and knee replacement, arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery, and the management of bone tumours. 

In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious American, British and Canadian (ABC) Fellowship by the British Orthopaedic Association. He spent six weeks visiting the premier orthopaedic clinics in North America and the experience he gained has been of great benefit to him and his patients.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, British Hip Society, British Association for Surgery of the Knee, British Orthopaedic Oncology Society and European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society.

Mr Pollock has published over 90 research papers on joint reconstruction and bone cancer and regularly presents his work at national and international meetings. He enjoys teaching orthopaedic and is an instructor on many of the postgraduate courses at the RNOH. Mr Pollock has 7 clinical excellence awards related to his NHS practice.

In his spare time he is mostly found outdoors in the Chilterns with his young family enjoying cycling, running and walking his dog. He regularly competes in triathlons and in 2016 completed a full Ironman.

• Knee arthroscopy
• Partial and total knee replacement 
• Robotic assisted knee surgery
• Hip replacement 
• Revision knee and hip replacement 
• Bone and soft tissue tumour surgery

• Hips
• Knees
• Bone and soft tissue tumours
• Metastatic bone disease

Jonathan Hutt is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in Hip Surgery.

After completing his medical studies at New College, Oxford and Imperial College, Mr Hutt then undertook specialist orthopaedic training in London. He was awarded a Fellowship in Lower Limb Reconstruction at the Université de Montréal in Canada and an additional Fellowship in Young Adult Hip Surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London.

His extensive experience and training has allowed him to develop a specialist interest in all aspects of hip surgery, He is experienced in advanced joint preservation techniques such as minimally invasive periacetabular osteotomy and hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) as well as hip reconstruction for other causes of hip pain in young patients. When preservation of the joint is not possible, he is experienced in hip replacement using both the direct anterior (DAA) and posterior approaches to the hip, as well as revision (redo) surgery. ​He has a particular interest in young patients with hip problems and complex surgery for failed hip replacements. He is involved in innovation and research in advanced hip preservation techniques as well as emerging hip technology and implants to improve patient outcomes. 

Within the field of Orthopaedics, Mr Hutt is actively involved in innovation and research in advanced hip preservation techniques as well as emerging hip technology and implants to improve patient outcomes. He is active in medical education and regularly contributes his experience at training courses and at national and international conferences.

• Hip Preservation surgery including periacetabular osteotomy, femoral osteotomy, hip arthroscopy
• Primary hip replacement including minimally invasive techniques and the direct anterior approach (DAA)
• Revision hip replacement

• Hip Dysplasia
• Femoroacetabular Impingement
• Hip Pain in Young Patients
• Hip Replacement in Active People
• Complex Hip Reconstruction
• Revision Hip Replacement

Mr Hugh Apthorp is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon. Within the field Mr Apthorp specialises in Hip Surgery and joint replacement, performing around 600 primary and revision joint replacements each year. His clinical interests lie in rapid recovery hip replacement, minimally invasive surgery, complex and revision hip surgery and hip problems in young adults.

After qualifying from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Mr Apthorp commenced Orthopaedic training at St Thomas' Hospital. Following this, he moved to Perth, Australia where he spent a year working with Professor David Wood developing his expertise in complex hip surgery.

In addition to his practice, Mr Apthorp assists with the training of young surgeons as well as teaching established surgeons new and advanced techniques. He pioneered rapid recovery hip replacement surgery in the UK with his patients enjoying the shortest length of stay for hip replacements in England.

Rapid recovery Hip replacement

Young Adult Hip Replacement

• Rapid Recovery Hip Replacement
• Revision Hip Replacement
• Young adult Hip Problems 
• Complex Hip Surgery

Ms Sarah Muirhead-Allwood is an internationally renowned Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon. Her subspecialty is in hip surgery including complex surgeries, revision, replacement and resurfacing. With over 25 years of experience in her field, clients can be assured they are in safe hands. A talented surgeon, held in high regard by her peers, she also offers more advanced hip replacements and aims to provide the best possible care to her clients in a calm and comfortable environment.

• Hip Replacment
• Hip Resurfacing
• Hip Revision Surgery

• Arthritis (Hip)

Mr Lewis graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School London in 1994 having previously attained an honours degree at Bristol Polytechnic. He completed his basic surgical training at King’s College Hospital.

 He then started his orthopaedic training at the Academic unit of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. He entered the specialist registrar training programme and completed this in 2006. During this time he had 12 months of Specialist training in pelvic and acetabular reconstruction surgery at St Georges Hospital.

He was appointed as a full time substantive Consultant with a Special Interest in Pelvic and Acetabular Reconstruction at Charing Cross Hospital in 2006. He now has an established regional tertiary referral practice receiving pelvic referrals and patients requiring complex revision hip reconstruction from all over North West London. On average this service receives in excess of 70 referrals per year since he started at Charing Cross Hospital.

His elective interest is in hip arthroplasty reconstruction both primary and revision. Charing Cross Hospital has recently become a division of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust with the unique status as the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre. This has provided him with the opportunity to be involved with academic orthopaedic research. He is involved with some pioneering work on computer assisted navigation of reduction and stabilisation of pelvic and acetabular fractures and detailed mapping of the pelvis. 

This will dramatically improve the understanding of a bone which he believes possesses some of the most complex biomechanical properties of any bone in the body. He has been a member of the London Hip Unit since 2015 which has a collective ambition to provide high quality, accurate lower limb orthopaedic reconstruction.

• Hip replacement 
• Pelvic and acetabular reconstruction
• Hip and revision arthroplasty

• Pelvic and Acetabular reconstruction
• Hip Arthroplasty
• Revision Hip Arthroplasty

Professor Fares Haddad is a Hip and Knee Reconstructive Orthopaedic and Sports Surgeon at University College Hospitals. He is Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCH, and Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London. 

Professor Haddad’s clinical and research endeavours have centred around hip and knee reconstruction, with interests in the expansion of knee and hip arthroscopic techniques to deal with sports injuries, new bearing surfaces and outcomes assessment in hip, knee and revision surgery. His work also encompasses novel strategies to manage patients with knee ligament and cartilage injuries. He provides medical input at elite level for dancers and a number of elite sports including football, athletics, rugby, boxing and martial arts. He was the musculoskeletal lead at the 2012 London Olympics and runs the IOC research centre at ISEH, in addition to being the chief medical officer for the NFL in the UK. 

Graduating with a First-Class BSc and MB BS from the University College London Hospitals, Professor Haddad undertook his basic training in hip and knee surgery and reconstruction on the St Bartholomew’s, Royal Free and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotations, and fellowship training in the United States and Canada. He was the gold medallist in the FRCS (Orth) exam and has gained a large number of prizes and prestigious academic awards. He has been an EFORT Travelling Fellow, British Hip Society Travelling Fellow and ABC Travelling Fellow in 2004. He became a Hunterian Professor in 2005.

He has presented and published widely (over 500 peer reviewed publications) on key aspects of hip, knee and sports surgery and continues to lead a clinical research group with interests in hip and knee joint preservation after injury, prosthetic design and performance and outcomes measurement after hip / knee surgery and sports injuries. He is editor in chief of the Bone and Joint Journal.

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• Hip Arthroscopy
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Knee Arthroscopy
• Knee Replacement
• Partial Knee Replacement

• Knee Pain
• Hip and groin pain
• Sports Injuries
• Arthritis (Hip)
• Arthritis (Knee)

Mr Mark Harris is a spinal surgeon who specialises in the management of childrens and young persons spinal conditions. He is a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children and at Guys and St Thomas' and the Evelina Childrens Hospital. These are internationally accalimed specialist childrens hospitals that receive tertiary referrals both nationally and internationally and provide a full range of childrens services. As such Mr Harris cares for children with the most complex spinal and medical problems. This complexity in combination with his high volume practice (120+ deformity correction operations per year) means his patients benefit from his extensive experience in treating childrens spinal conditions.

He graduated with BSc. Medical Science from the Univertisy of St Andrews and completed his medical training, MB ChB, at the University of Manchester in 2003. His surgical training was centred in London and he held positions in several university teaching hospitals including Chelsea and Westminster, Royal National Orthopaedic, Royal Free, Royal London, St Georges, and Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals. He trained on the South West Thames Trauma and Orthopaedic rotation during which he became a fellow of the Royal college of Surgeons. In addition to his higher surgical training he completed two years of subspecialist spinal surgical fellowships at St Georges University hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children.

In addition to his clinical work Mr Harris is the transformation lead for the Evelina childrens hospital spinal service and has successfully introduced a spinal pathway for children with spinal problems and complex medical needs. This integrates a 'one stop' preoperative assessment day with a fully multidisciplinary team review and is the gold standard in care of childrens spinal deformity.

He is a trainer of future spinal surgeons and an educational supervisor to his fellows at Great Ormond Street. He is regularly invited to teach on spinal surgery courses in his specialist area of childrens spinal deformity.

Mr Harris' private practice is exclusively dedicated to childrens spinal conditions and he is a Consultant for The Portland Scoliosis and Spinal Surgery Centre.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments