Professor Fares Haddad

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery, University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital

Fares Haddad is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery at University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital in London, UK. He is Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCH, Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London, past Professor Haddad's clinical and research endeavours have centred around hip and knee reconstruction and sports surgery. He remains a very active high volume surgeon in spite of a broad leadersip, research and editorial portfoio. His interests include enhanced technology in surgery, implant fixation, periprosthetic infection and outcomes assessment in hip, knee, sports and revision surgery.  His broader work also encompasses strategies to preserve and regain musculoskeletal health; he led the musculoskeletal team at the London Olympics 2012, was instrumental in setting up the National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine and gained International Olympic Committee Centre of Excellence status at ISEH. He works with a number of elite sports and was the Chief Medical Officer for the NFL in the UK until 2022.

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 was a Hunterian Professor in 2005. He is past president of the British Hip Society and BOSTAA and has been a council member. He is a member of the Hip Society, the Knee Society, the International Hip Society (currently President) and the International Knee Society . He is also currently President of the European Hip Society.
He has presented and published widely on key aspects of hip, knee and sports surgery including over 700 peer reviewed publications. He leads a clinical research group with interests in the management of soft tissue injuries including hamstrings, prosthetic design and performance, and outcomes measurement after hip / knee injury, degeneration and surgery.