Speakers
Raghbir Khakha
Oday Al Dadah
Chinmay Gupte
Mike McNicholas
Jaison Patel
Tim Spalding
Specialist Society
Session Title: Session 1
Chair & Co-Chairs: Rahul Bhattacharyya & Raghbir Khakha
Agenda
08:30 - 08:40: Update from the BASK multiligament working group
Raghbir Khakha, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas's London
08:40 - 08:50: Knee dislocations - acute management
Mike McNicholas, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Trauma Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals
08:50 - 09:00: Meniscus tears: repair or resect?
Oday Al Dadah
09:00 - 09:10: The medial side - Posteromedial corner injuries and AMRI: Diagnosis and management
Chim Gupte, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College London
09:10 - 09:20: The lateral side - Posterolateral corner injuries: Diagnosis and management
Jaison Patel, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Central London and Buckhurst Hill
09:20 - 09:30: Decision Making in PCL Injuries - to operate or not?
Tim Spalding, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon
09:30 - 10:00: Q&A
Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader (Associate Professor) in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals. Chinmay is a member of the BASK executive committee and BASK lead in research, as well as NIHR clinical research network NW London lead. He is also clinical director of the 30 yr established Wellington knee unit and CEO of Sportshealing ltd.
His main clinical interests are in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscus root repairs, multiligment injuries, adolescent knee injuries, patellofemoral instability, osteochondral injuries and robotic knee unicompartmental and total knee replacement.
As director of training for trauma and orthopaedics for London deanery NW Thames (2011-2018) Mr Gupte helped reshape training for the consultants of the future in this region. He is also past President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 100 papers in his research interests which include lateral tenodesis in ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair, MPFL reconstruction, joint fluid analysis, chondral replacement and simulation training of knee surgeons.
His time as captain of Oxford University and professional cricketer in 1995/6 has given Chinmay added insight into the unique needs of sportsmen in returning to sport after injury; experience that he brings to bear in his clinical practice.
Mr Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals, Glasgow and at Ross Hall Hospital, Glasgow. He is also Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is currently member of the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).
Mr Bhattacharyya has extensive training and experience from world leading centres in the UK, USA and Canada which he now offers to his patients in the UK. His clinical interests are focused entirely around surgery of the knee with a special interest in sports knee injuries with experience in treating elite level athletes. This includes meniscal repair and meniscal allograft transplantation, ligament (cruciate and collateral) repair and reconstruction, cartilage repair and patella stabilisation surgery. He also treats patients with arthritis with a focus on knee joint preservation wherever possible.
Mr Bhattacharyya is a keen academic. He has two higher degrees in research, having completed an MSc in orthopaedics at the University of Edinburgh and an MD (Res) from Imperial College London. Here, he pioneered the use of Cognitive Task Analysis in knee and trauma surgery which led to multiple academic publications and presentations. He has been nominated by the Royal College of Surgeons, England, for innovation in surgical education and for the president’s medal in teaching innovation by Imperial College London for his work in this field. He continues to work in this area in his current role as Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London collaborating nationally and internationally. He also has a keen interest in biomechanics research investigating innovations in surgical techniques in sports knee surgery, research in meniscal allograft transplantation and clinical research ensuring patient outcomes are evaluated to deliver the highest standards of care. He is a keen teacher and trainer, faculty in various national courses, and involved in training the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons.