OXFORDKNEEGROUP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon
• Member of the British Orthopaedic Association

Alex Shearman is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon whose specialist practice covers all adult and paediatric knee conditions. He works at the internationally renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and has a particular interest in joint preserving operations around the knee such as osteotomy and cartilage surgery, sports injuries, patellofemoral (kneecap) instability, meniscal repair and ligament reconstruction. He manages osteoarthritis in all ages with specialist expertise in partial, robotic-assisted and revision knee replacement. Alex qualified in 2008 from Imperial College School of Medicine. He undertook specialist orthopaedic training in London and went on to complete subspecialist knee fellowships in Basingstoke, Imperial College, Oxford and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. In 2019 he was awarded the ESSKA knee arthroscopy travelling fellowship to Brandenberg, Germany. Prior to undertaking his appointment in Oxford, Alex worked as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, undertaking complex hip and knee reconstructive surgery in a highly specialist tertiary referral centre. Alex remains actively involved in research and is currently contributing to a number of multicenter NIHR-funded studies. He has relevant peer-reviewed publications across the spectrum of knee disorders and has co-authored several educational chapters. Alex is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) and the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA).

Job Titles:

• Practice Manager
• Administration Team

Job Titles:

• Accounts Manager

Job Titles:

• Consultant

Mr Abtin Alvand is a Consultant Knee Surgeon with an NHS practice based at the world-renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Mr Alvand's practice focuses entirely on knee surgery and he is one of the highest volume revision knee surgeons in England based on the National Joint Registry. He has particular expertise in unicompartmental knee replacement, revision knee replacement and management of prosthetic joint infection Mr Alvand graduated from University of London and completed his Orthopaedic training on the Oxford rotation. He completed a PhD (DPhil) at the University of Oxford which focused on improving training methods for unicompartmental knee replacement surgery. He was appointed to the prestigious post of NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2015, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2017. He undertook two post-CCT sub-specialist clinical fellowships focusing on complex hip and knee surgery in Oxford and Stanmore (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital). He was a European Bone & Joint Infection Society Travelling Fellow and also completed a Fellowship focusing on peri-prosthetic joint infection at the Rothman Institute (Philadelphia, USA) with Prof. J Parvizi. Mr Alvand is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford. He has a strong academic background with over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as over 200 national/international presentations. He is a regular invited guest lecturer at these meetings. He was invited faculty and member of the International Consensus Group for the management of peri-prosthetic joint infection and has recently been invited to join the UK Revision Knee Surgery and Peri-prosthetic Joint Infection Working Groups with the aim of improving care delivery in these domains. His research focuses on improving clinical outcomes in unicompartmental knee replacement, revision knee surgery and peri-prosthetic joint infection. Abtin is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon with an NHS practice based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He is also Honourary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford.

Job Titles:

• Specialist
• Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon

Nicholas is a specialist orthopaedic knee surgeon and his practice encompasses all aspects of paediatric and adult knee surgery.

Job Titles:

• Specialist

William works as a dedicated specialist knee surgeon treating all paediatric and adult knee conditions. He has a particular interests in sports knee injuries and arthroscopic ligament reconstructions, management of arthritis in younger more active patients including use of more personalised techniques (partial knee replacements and kinematic alignment philosophy). William was a founding Trustee for SKIPP charity. This is aimed at trying to reduce the increasing number of significant knee injuries occurring in youth sport (www.skippcharity.org).

Job Titles:

• Consultant

Andrew Price is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust and Professor of Musculoskeletal Science at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford University. His undergraduate training was at Cambridge University and St. Thomas' Hospital in London. He studied for a PhD as a postgraduate student at Oxford University and completed his Orthopaedic surgical training in Oxford, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He is a Fellow of Worcester College (Oxford University), where he is Director of Studies for Clinical Medicine. Professor Price works specifically as a Consultant Knee Surgeon treating all paediatric and adult knee conditions. He has completed specialist Fellowship training in knee surgery in Melbourne Australia. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the International Cartilage Repair Society. He performs surgical treatments for all knee conditions including total and partial knee replacement, osteotomy, revision knee replacement, keyhole arthroscopy, cruciate ligament reconstruction, patella stabilisation and cartilage repair techniques. He has a special interest in treating cartilage problems within the young adult knee and has set up a cartilage repair service at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. As part of this he introduced the technique of autologous cartilage implantation to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Professor Price has developed a programme of Musculoskeletal Research at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Botnar Research Centre. His interests lie in investigating the progression of osteoarthritis, methods of cartilage repair, phenotype specific joint replacement and the outcome of orthopaedic intervention in young adults