Alasdair Santini

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust

Alasdair Santini graduated from the University of Sheffield and trained in Sheffield and Merseyside. He won a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow travelling Fellowship to visit St Louis and learn from Leo Whiteside.  

He is a consultant at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS trust and an honorary clinical lecturer at The University of Liverpool. His practice is in primary and revision knee surgery.  In addition he is managing partner of The Bone and Joint Centre and Spire Liverpool MAC Chair. 

He had been on the BASK executive since 2017 in a number of roles and is President-elect of the association. 

Nick Kalson

I am a consultant knee surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust which hosts the North East Major Revision Centre. My practice is entirely devoted to knee arthroplasty (partial, total and revision) with a particular interest in problematic, painful and stiff total knee replacements.

I undertook his medical training in Manchester, including a PhD in tendon biology, followed by orthopaedic training in Newcastle and Northumbria on the North East Rotation. During this period I was the British Association for Surgery of the Knee Research Fellow (2018-) and worked with BASK's revision knee working group to drive the reorganisation of revision knee surgery in England.

I undertook fellowship training in revision knee surgery in Exeter (2022-23, Prof Andy Toms and Mr Jon Phillips) and Oxford (2023-24, Mr Abtin Alvand and Prof Andy Price) before returning to the North East as a consultant in April 2024.

To complement my clinical work, I continue to collaborate with research scientists in Newcastle University to improve our understanding of the development of stiffness after knee replacement and improve treatment for this challenging patient group.

I was elected to the BASK Executive Committee in September 2024, and as Junior Member I hope to develop BASK's appeal to trainees, fellows and young consultants and increase the number of trainee members through trainee specific sessions at BASK meetings.

Oday Al-Dadah

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, South Tyneside Hospital. Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. 

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as multi-ligament reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies. He performs a high number of unicompartmental knee replacements using minimally invasive techniques. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including trochleoplasty.

 

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is an Executive Board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK). 

 

Raghbir Khakha

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas's London

Dr Raghbir Khakha is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in joint preservation, ligament reconstructions and arthroplasty. He is based at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals in central London where he has a fellowship programme. His training involved a fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Basingstoke in Hampshire focusing on complex osteotomy and paediatric knee surgery. He did his basic science degree in trauma and Orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, followed by a Masters in the same subject.

Raghbir has taken an active role in multiple international scientific initiatives. These include co-chairing the osteotomy certification programme, co-authored the osteotomy consensus, host ESSKA travelling fellows, co-chair the osteotomy committee as well as a reviewer of several ESSKA consensus initiatives. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles with a focus in joint preservation and is actively involved with teaching around the world.