Mr Tony Andrade is a fellowship trained consultant Orthopaedic, Hip and Knee surgeon with a special interest in Hip preservation and arthroscopic hip surgery.

He established the hip preservation service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2002 which rapidly evolved into a tertiary referral centre. A pioneer in surgical techniques, he launched a visiting surgeon program to share expertise globally and founded a hip arthroscopy fellowship program in 2016. He has also been fellowship director for a lower limb arthroplasty fellowship at the Royal Berkshire Hospital since 2004, and in that same year co-founded the Combined Orthopaedic and Medical Microbiology Service (COMMS) to advance orthopaedic infection treatment.

He has published extensively, contributed to consensus statements, and co-authored a landmark BMJ study on arthroscopic hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement. His research has received prestigious awards from EFORT and ESSKA.

He has been a member of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA) since it was founded in 2008, he hosted the 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting in Cambridge and was the 2020-21 president, of what is now known as ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society. As chair of the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR) for the British Hip Society, Mr Andrade supports national data collection on all of hip preservation.

Mr Ajay Malviya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He trained in the Northern Deanery and has done specialist fellowships in hip preservation and joint replacement surgery in Cambridge, London and Switzerland.

He specialises in hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement, trochanteric pain syndrome and periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia using a minimally invasive approach. He deals with sports injuries of the hip and has published and presented widely on the results of hip arthroscopy in athletes and general population. He has completed a PhD on the role of hip arthroscopy in femoroacetabular impingement.

He was awarded the prestigious ABC (America-Britain-Canada) fellowship in 2016 by the British Orthopaedic Association that involved visits to various high-profile centres in USA and Canada learning about new systems and techniques.

He is a very active researcher with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in esteemed journals. He is a Trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Vice-Chair of BOA Education and Careers committee. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS T&O).

Vikas Khanduja is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip surgery and has a particular interest in arthroscopic surgery of the hip. He has been instrumental in setting up & developing the tertiary referral service for Young Adults with Hip Pathology in Cambridge for East of England.

Complementing his clinical practice, his research interests centre around disease stratification of FAI using novel imaging techniques, better pre-operative planning tools using dynamic analysis and optimisation of arthroscopic management of FAI via precision surgery to improve outcomes.

Along with a busy clinical practice, he also chairs a vibrant and productive research group, Cambridge Young Adult Hip Research Group, the main focus of the group being improving outcomes for young adults with hip pathology. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed articles (Pubmed) and three books.

Vikas is the recipient of the Hunterian Professor Award by the Royal College of Surgeons in England, the American and British Hip Society Travelling Fellowship in 2011, the Arnott Medal presented by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2013 and the Insall Fellowship presented by the American Knee Society and Insall Foundation in 2014.

Vikas sits on the Board of Directors for SICOT as the President, the British Hip Society as the Past President, ESSKA-EHPA as the Founder Chair and is on the Board of ISHA and BOA. He is also the Associate Editor in Chief to JISAKOS and the past Chair & current Trustee to the Non Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR).

Mr Marcus Bankes was a senior surgeon on the Hip Unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust and was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2002. 

He is now in full time private practice. His practice consists almost exclusively of the surgical treatment of young adult hip disorders, including arthroscopic and open hip preservation techniques and arthroplasty, particularly with ceramic-on-ceramic bearings. Recognised as an opinion leader in hip surgery, Marcus is a regular speaker at national meetings and ISHA (The Hip Preservation Society) as well as being a reviewer for a number of orthopaedic journals.

He pioneered the use of the British Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR) and was the first Chair of its User Group. He remains on the User Group of the NAHR and has recently led on the Minimum Data Set 2.0 project. His interests outside work include film, TV, pop music, Apple electronic goods, and most sport, particularly cycling.

Mr. Callum McBryde is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon based in Birmingham, UK, specialising in hip and groin conditions, particularly in young and active patients. He was appointed as a consultant to Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 2011 where he has gone on to help develop a leading centre for young adult hip surgery with his colleagues including a strong fellowship program.

After earning his medical degree from the University of Manchester in 1998, Mr. McBryde completed his general surgical and specialist orthopaedic training in Birmingham. Early in his career, he was honored with the RH Sage Award for the best surgical trainee of the year. His involvement in hip resurfacing research led to the first-ever McMinn scholarship from the British Hip Society, culminating in a doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham.

Mr. McBryde completed a hip surgical fellowship in Sydney under Dr. Solomon and the European Travelling Fellowship form the British Hip Society, training with a number of renowned surgeons in Switzerland. His surgical proficiencies encompass hip arthroscopy, periacetabular and triple pelvic osteotomies, hip resurfacing and complex primary total hip replacements. Beyond his clinical practice, he contributes to the field as a member of the editorial board of the Bone and Joint Journal, serves on the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Register board, and is the Chairman and trustee for the Birmingham Orthopaedic Charity.

He has published extensively in a number of peer reviewed journals on hip surgery and is regularly invited internationally to lecture and teach.

Mr Tom Pollard is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip surgery with a particular interest in young adult hip conditions. The majority of his training in hip arthroscopy was with Tony Andrade, and he joined him as a Consultant colleague at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, in 2012. Since starting Consultant practice, he has consistently performed approximately 250 hip arthroscopies annually, making him one of the UK’s highest volume and most experienced hip arthroscopy surgeons.

Prior to starting Consultant practice, Tom completed an MD entitled ‘The aetiology of early osteoarthritis of the hip’. He was awarded the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy’s top research prize at the New York and Paris meetings.

He has expanded the understanding of how hips fail in young adults and how they should be studied and treated by authoring many articles in the field of young adult hip surgery. His research has also included studies related to simulator training in hip arthroscopy, and he was a coauthor on the FAIT project, collaborating with colleagues in Oxford and elsewhere.

Tom’s NHS practice remains at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and he works privately at Fortius Clinic London and Circle Reading. The Reading Hip Arthroscopy fellowship has been running since 2015 and he is a keen participant in the Smith & Nephew sponsored visiting surgeon programme.

Colin is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon based in Leeds since 2014, specialising in hip and paediatric orthopaedic surgery. He has an NHS and private practice. Colin is a Clinical Director at Leeds Children’s Hospital for over 1,400 staff and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Leeds.

Colin specialises in hip arthroscopy, hip replacement, and peri-acetabular (PAO) and femoral osteotomies, with a particular focus on adolescent and young adult hip conditions. He has completed fellowships in the UK and Denmark and continues to be actively involved in clinical research, serving as Principal Investigator on several NIHR studies. 

He has recently joined the NAHR board after serving as a regional representative for several years. Colin is excited to continue to develop and improve the impact the NAHR team can have here in the UK and world.

Mr Jonathan Hutt is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in all aspects of hip surgery from adolescence onwards, performing a complete range of both hip preservation and arthroplasty surgery with a particular interest in the treatment of young and active patients.

Following undergraduate training in Oxford and London, he completed his orthopaedic training in the South West Deanery which was followed by two fellowships in Montreal, Canada and Guy’s Hospital in London. 

Having started his consultant career at St. George’s Hospital, he later moved to UCLH where he now leads one of the largest and busiest hip preservation units in the UK, in addition to running a fellowship programme and regularly hosting visiting surgeons from the UK and worldwide.

In 2022, he was awarded the distinguished Rothman-Ranawat travelling fellowship by the American Hip Society.

He is an active member of numerous hip societies has published extensively on hip conditions, and is an honorary associate professor at UCL.