Raghbir Khakha

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas's London

Dr Raghbir Khakha is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in joint preservation, ligament reconstructions and arthroplasty. He is based at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals in central London where he has a fellowship programme. His training involved a fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Basingstoke in Hampshire focusing on complex osteotomy and paediatric knee surgery. He did his basic science degree in trauma and Orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, followed by a Masters in the same subject.

Raghbir has taken an active role in multiple international scientific initiatives. These include co-chairing the osteotomy certification programme, co-authored the osteotomy consensus, host ESSKA travelling fellows, co-chair the osteotomy committee as well as a reviewer of several ESSKA consensus initiatives. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles with a focus in joint preservation and is actively involved with teaching around the world.

Professor Chinmaye Gupte

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College London

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. 

His main interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of sports knee injuries and knee arthritis, together with trauma and fracture surgery. He performs both arthroscopic (keyhole) and open procedures, in particular cruciate ligament surgery, meniscal repair, patellar stabilisation, children's knee surgery and knee replacement. 

Mr Gupte is a specialist knee surgeon with over 10 years experience as consultant, but also has an active research and teaching interest in knee problems. 

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 ex President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section having served as President in 2012, and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. 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 prestigious British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 70 papers in this and other topics which include shoulder and ankle surgery, tuberculosis and training the surgeons of the future. 

He continues his research as a Clinical Reader in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, with particular emphasis in meniscal surgery and knee ligament reconstruction, and also in arthroscopic simulator training, with the aspiration of improving outcomes in patients with knee problems. He helps train surgeons of the future at Imperial, He is a cofounder for the patient access website www.orthoconsent.com, which provides information on common procedures. 

His time as captain of Oxford University and professional cricketer in 1995/6 has given Chinmay added insight into t he unique needs of sportsmen in returning to sport after injury; experience that he brings to bear in his clinical practice. 

Mike McNicholas

He is currently a Consultant Trauma & Othopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Broadgreen, where he has a regional referral elective knee surgery practice treating all aspects of soft tissue knee pathology and sports injuries, with arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, articular cartilage resurfacing, osteotomy and primary partial and total knee replacements. He has an Honorary Consultant contract in Manchester University Hospitals FT where he co-chairs the NorthWest Regional Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation and Joint Preservation service for its 7 million population. He is A BASK Executive Committee Member and was elected President of the UK Biological Knee Society in 2020- 2023. He is a member of the International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society General Board and Co-Chair of the ICRS Patient Registry Steering Committee. In 2025 he was promoted to Professor at the University of Manchester, the UK's largest medical school. He was awarded an Honorary Clinical Chair at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) after working in the Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester from 2019. He was previously an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Liverpool from 2014 to 2020, a member of the University of Leeds EPSRC Optimising Knee Therapies Advisory Board 2017-21. and Honorary Professor at the University of Salford 2006 to 2018. He is a clinician advisor to NICE, guest editor of The Knee and Cartilage Journals, associate editor and reviewer for several other orthopaedic and biomechanics journals. He has written 19 book chapters, 32 Invited Editorials, over 65 peer reviewed publications, over 160 National and International Podium and over 110 Poster Presentations. He is faculty for train the trainer, training assessment in the clinical environment and advanced arthroscopy courses of the Royal College of Surgeons and regularly invited faculty at national and international joint preservation, ligament reconstruction and arthroplasty surgery meetings. He is involved in international collaborative clinical and basic science research, mainly related to knee disorders and has won awards for this. Current research interests include graphene and stem cell applications in knee injury; multiple ligament reconstruction, osteotomy, cartilage repair and arthroplasty outcomes, and the treatment of focal articular cartilage defects and early arthritis using novel implants.

Tim Spalding

Tim Spalding is a knee surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London and also in the Midlands near Coventry at Nuffield Health Warwick. His focus is on ligament reconstruction and knee preservation covering meniscal repair and meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, osteotomy, and novel ortho-biologics. He is past president of the International ACL Study Group.

Following Fellowship in Toronto, consultant career started in the Royal Navy in 1995, pursuing specialisation in the sporting knee. In 2000 he moved to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, initiating meniscal transplantation and developing a well-respected fellowship and research program before leaving in 2021.

He has pioneered several new techniques, has over 120 publications and 12 book chapters. He leads the UK National Ligament Registry for ACL surgery, now transitioning into a mandatory national registry. Internationally, he co-leads the International Meniscal REconstruction Forum (IMREF) and the ICRS Cartilage Foundation. He is member-at-large on the ISAKOS Board and Associate Editor at the KSSTA Journal. Since 2003 he is co-organiser of the Sports Knee Surgery biannual conference, universally regarded as one of the top education conferences in UK due to the renowned international faculty.

Rahul Bhattacharyya

Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals, Imperial College London

Professor Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at Ross

Hall Hospital, Glasgow. His NHS base is at NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals. He is Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (knee surgery biomechanics research). He is also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and University of Glasgow. He is member of the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).
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 knee cap (patella) stabilisation surgery. He also treats patients with arthritis with a focus on knee joint preservation wherever possible.

Prof Bhattacharyya graduated with Honours in medicine and surgery from the University of Sheffield in 2009. He completed specialist training in orthopaedics in the West of Scotland, Glasgow. He then undertook a further sub-specialty fellowship in sports knee surgery with the internationally renowned Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at Coventry, UK. Here he was trained in all aspects of modern, cutting edge sports knee surgery and is one of the few surgeons in Scotland trained to treat meniscal deficiency with Meniscal Allograft Transplantation. He has been awarded the prestigious British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) travelling fellowship in 2023. With this award, he has visited international centres of excellence in sports knee surgery in London Ontario, Canada and Stanford University, USA. This has enabled him to gain further insight into the latest cutting edge techniques used in knee surgery in world leading centres and being able to offer this to his patients in the UK.

Prof Bhattacharyya 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 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.

Oday Al-Dadah

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, South Tyneside Hospital & Newcastle University

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. 

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant and cartilage transplant surgery of the knee. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as medial collateral ligament and postero-lateral corner reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies including high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. He performs a high number of partial knee joint replacements using minimally invasive techniques encompassing medial and lateral uni-compartmental knee replacement, patello-femoral joint replacement and segmental bi-compartmental knee replacement. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction, tibial tuberosity transfer and trochleoplasty. 

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and privileged to be an executive board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).