Akash Sharma

President CASOS UK, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

Mr Akash Sharma is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, and the current President of CAOS-UK (Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery UK). 
He graduated with Distinction in Clinical Practice from St George's Hospital Medical School, London, in 2007 before completing basic surgical training in London and Oxford. He subsequently undertook higher surgical training on the Birmingham Orthopaedic Rotation in the West Midlands, obtaining his FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics) in 2016. He completed advanced fellowship training in complex knee surgery and arthroplasty at both the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, and Nottingham University Hospitals. 
Mr Sharma specialises in all aspects of knee arthroplasty, including unicompartmental knee replacement, total knee replacement and complex revision knee reconstruction. He has a particular interest in technology-enabled surgery, personalised alignment strategies and the application of robotics, computer-assisted surgery and artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes. 
He is an experienced robotic knee surgeon with expertise across multiple robotic and computer-assisted platforms and has performed more than 1,200 robotic knee arthroplasties. His clinical and academic interests focus on the evidence underpinning robotic surgery, objective outcome measurement and the future role of intelligent technologies in orthopaedics. 
As President of CAOS-UK, Mr Sharma is committed to advancing education, research and collaboration in computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery and supporting the safe and evidence-based adoption of emerging technologies across the United Kingdom. 
Mr Sharma has received multiple academic awards, published widely in the field of arthroplasty and surgical technology, contributed to book chapters and national guidance, and regularly lectures nationally and internationally on robotic surgery and innovation in orthopaedics. 

Dinesh Nathwani

Immediate Past President CAOS UK, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Hon Senior Lecturer & Lead for Orthopaedic Robotics, Imperial Healthcare NHS, Trust Charing Cross & St Mary's Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, London

Mr Dinesh Nathwani is the current President of CAOS UK. He is a Consultant and Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Robotics Lead at Cleveland Clinic London. He has a keen clinical and research interest in technology assisted knee surgery and has used Navigation and Robotics for all his partial and Total knee replacements since being appointed as a substantive Knee Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare in 2004. This was following a fellowship in Knee Navigation techniques in Perth, Western Australia. He is involved in international trials for novel cartilage resurfacing implants, customised and robotically assisted knee replacements. He is a programme committee member of Computer assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) International. He is an Orthopaedic research advisor for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics at Imperial College and faculty member on several national and international knee reconstruction course teaching surgeons of all grades in Robotic Knee Surgery. He is a reviewer for several Orthopaedic Journals including British Bone & Joint Journal, American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Knee, and Injury.

Reshid Berber

Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Reshid Berber is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon based at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.  After graduating from University College London, he undertook specialist training on the highly regarded training programmes across London, Leicester and Nottingham.  Mr Berber was awarded a PhD from University College London, for his internationally recognised research based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He has published several scientific articles and has received numerous awards for his research activities.  On completion of training, he went on to highly regarded national and international fellowships, including a BOA travelling fellowship to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. Mr Berber has a hip and knee reconstructive practice, including robotic arthroplasty and revision knee surgery. Mr Berber is a consultant member of the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network. He is also a dedicated faculty member on several national and international teaching courses.

Nick Ohly

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Golden Jubilee University National Hospital

Nick completed postgraduate training in Glasgow and Edinburgh, followed by a hip and knee fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was appointed as a consultant at the Golden Jubilee in 2014. He runs a specialised elective-only practice focused exclusively on hip and knee arthroplasty, with sub-specialist interests in robotic and computer-assisted surgery, and complex and revision knee arthroplasty.

Muthu Ganapathi

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor

Mr Muthu Ganapathi MBBS, MS(Ortho), FRCS (Tr & Orth) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, North Wales, specialising exclusively in hip and knee arthroplasty.
He has a particular interest in personalised joint replacement and robotic-assisted knee arthroplasty. He has developed the Restricted Adaptive Kinematic Alignment (raKA) philosophy, a personalised alignment strategy designed to restore native knee biomechanics while respecting safe alignment boundaries. To simplify the complex interactions between implant positioning, soft tissue balance and joint biomechanics, he has been using a pragmatic Rubik's Cube Concept based on a hierarchy of compromises pyramid.
Mr Ganapathi has one of the largest robotic knee replacement practices in the UK using the ROSA Knee System and has been an early adopter of emerging technologies including digital patient pathways and data-driven outcome analysis.
He is passionate about education and regularly teaches on national and international arthroplasty courses, cadaveric workshops and robotic surgery programmes. His research interests include personalised alignment, robotic surgery, rapid recovery pathways and digital innovation in orthopaedics, with numerous peer-reviewed publications and presentations at national and international meetings.

Karina Elisabeth Bohlen

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Elbe Klinikum Buxtehude

Ms Karina Elisabeth Bohlen is Head of Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma, and Sports Surgery at Elbe Klinikum Buxtehude (Germany). While overseeing the full clinical spectrum of her department, her personal practice is primarily focused on specialized knee arthroplasty, including primary and revision procedures as well as robot-assisted surgical techniques.

She began working with computer navigation systems in 2005 and further advanced her expertise during a dedicated Fellowship at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow. Prior to her current role, she served as Leading Senior Physician in Hamburg and held an additional position as a medical management consultant for the Schön Klinik administration. In this dual capacity, she was instrumental in developing group-wide enhanced recovery protocols and same-day surgery pathways. Ms Bohlen is a frequent international speaker on robotics and digitalization in orthopaedics, combining nearly two decades of navigated surgical experience with strategic clinical process management.