8.30am – 10am BST, 17 September 2025 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Room: Room 12
External Organisation
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery, University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department at the UK’s leading teaching hospital, University College London Hospitals
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
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 president of the British Hip Society and of the British Sports Trauma Association. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Bone & Joint Journal.
Orthopaedic Consultant, NHS Lothian Hospital Trust
Mr Nick Clement is an orthopaedic consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (UK), and his clinical practice focuses on hip and knee arthroplasty.
He has been awarded a PhD for his work looking at the outcome of total knee arthroplasty, and an MD for his research defining fracture epidemiology and outcomes in elderly and super-elderly patients.
He has recently been appointed as the Clinical Lead for orthopaedics for the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland, and is Chair for research for the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma (SCOT). In these positions he hopes to help to promote and support research projects across Scotland, and to establish national and international collaborations.
He is the author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters, and believes that only through collaboration can true orthopaedic science progress.
His recent publications in relation to robotic assisted surgery suggest that patient outcomes following hip and knee arthroplasty may be improved with the adoption of such technology. Whether this is a cost effective intervention in the NHS is however not clear.
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University College Hospital
Ricci Plastow is a consultant in hip and knee surgery at University College London Hospital. He studied medicine in Manchester and finished Orthopaedic training in 2019. He completed a fellowship in Vancouver before returning to London for fellowship in arthroplasty and robotic surgery at UCLH. He is a member of the RCS Trainee RADAR group and MSK Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) Working Group. He is the trainee lead for the MSK RAS group and is driving future training opportunities in robotic and digital surgery.
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon , Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Chloe Scott is a consultant hip, knee & trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and an NHS Research Scotland Clinician. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic surgery, finite element analysis and knee biomechanics. She serves on the editorial board of the BJJ where she is associate editor for knowledge translation and was awarded the Hunter Doig medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020.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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