Speakers
Professor Fares Haddad
Edward Davis
Nick Clement
Andreas Fontalis
Ricci Plastow
Chloe Scott
Sam Oussedik
External Organisation
Session Title: RADAR - Updates and what to know
Session Description: This RADAR Session will allow attendees to learn about robotic-assisted surgey from leaders in the field.
Agenda:
Robotic surgery in the UK – Current landscape and important questions Edward Davis
The NICE EVA – what are the implications Nick Clement
Robotic education – is there any progress? Andreas Fontalis and Ricci Plastow
Discussion
UKA vs TKA – is that still a question? Chloe Scott
Robotic patellofemoral arthroplasty – the data so far Sam Oussedik
Discussion
RACER – the lessons do far Professor Andrew Metcalfe
RACER HIP – insights Edward Davis
An update from the UCLH studies including health ecocomics Professor Fares Haddad
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.
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.
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 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.
You can find more at www.samoussedik.com
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.