Professor Andy Metcalfe

Professor at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Andy Metcalfe is a Professor at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). His clinical practice is in knee surgery including patellofemoral problems, sports surgery, osteotomy and arthroplasty.

Andy graduated from the University of Sheffield and undertook his basic and higher surgical training in Cardiff and the All-Wales rotation. He completed a PhD at Cardiff University at the Versus Arthritis Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre. His fellowships were in Bristol with Mr Andrew Porteous and Mr Jonathan Eldridge and in Sydney with Dr David Wood, before starting in Coventry in 2015.

He leads the thriving Surgery, Pain and Rehabilitation group at Warwick CTU, with numerous trials across a broad range of specialities. He leads multiple high-impact clinical trials, including START:REACTS (published in The Lancet) as well as currently recruiting trials such as RACER-Knee, METEOR2 and REPPORT. He was Research Lead for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee 2019-2023, is Secretary of the British Patellofemoral Society, and has been involved in multiple NICE guidelines.

Andy also leads the clinical academic training in T&O at Warwick and UHCW, a successful programme taking people through foundation training, academic clinical fellow posts and PhD fellowships through to Clinical Lecturer posts and CCT.

 

Nicholas Nicolaou

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Nick is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He trained on the South-East Thames Orthopaedic Circuit and completed Fellowship training at Sheffield Children’s, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as completing a travelling fellowship at Inselspital, Berne prior to becoming a Consultant in 2010.

His clinical interest is the Paediatric Knee and he treats the whole spectrum of pathology from cruciate and meniscal injuries to congenital ligament deficiency and complex patellofemoral problems. He also maintains a clinical interest in management of Osteogenesis Imperfecta and clinical research.

He is the chair of the recent BASK/BSCOS steering committee on soft tissue knee pathology in children and the current BSCOS/BASK paediatric patellofemoral steering committee chair, both of which aim to improve national standards of care, and academic secretary of BOSTAA.

Nick was a founding member of the annual International Kids Knee Conference. In 2018 he connected with the Ambassador Programme to help progress his plans for this event and find a suitable venue. With a venue secured, we then introduced him to a local Event Management Company, Event Management Direct to oversee the delivery of the event. The first conference was hosted in 2019. 

Sam Oussedik

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department at the UK’s leading teaching hospital, University College London Hospitals

 

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department at the UK’s leading teaching hospital, University College London Hospitals. 

Director of surgical education at UCLH.

Speciality editor for knee surgery for the Bone & Joint Journal, the UK’s leading orthopaedic Journal.

Editorial Board member for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.

Member of ISAKOS’ arthroplasty committee.

Member of EFORT’s Orthopaedic Education Group.

Founder member British PatelloFemoral Society

Founder member International Knee Society

Member AORecon Knee taskforce

 

Research interests include revision total knee replacement; prosthetic alignment in primary knee arthroplasty; robotic assisted surgery; ACL reconstruction; patellar stabilisaton.

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Farokh Wadia

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton Children's Hospital

Farokh Wadia is a fellowship trained Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon working at Southampton Children's Hospital. He has completed Paediatric Orthopaedic fellowship from Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. His special interests include paediatric and adolescent knee disorders, with a special interest in patellofemoral disorders. His research interests include MPFL reconstruction using Fibre-tape and PF instability in Downs syndrome. He has worked as a team doctor for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier league cricket.

Morgan Bailey

Morgan Bailey completed a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at University Hospital Southampton. She also completed a research fellowship for the British Association for Surgery on the Knee, with a focus on patellofemoral pathology, for which she was awarded the BASK President's Award. She works between University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites.

She is the Hampshire ambassador for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play, as well as sitting on a national working group for injury prevention. She is the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women, and gender parity in the diagnosis and management of ACL injuries.