Mr John Timperley MBChB, FRCS (Ed), DPhil (Oxon)
John Timperley’s practice in London concentrates on primary, complex primary and revision total hip replacements in which he has particular expertise. John carried out his postgraduate education in several Centres of Excellence in the United Kingdom including the Exeter Hip Unit under Robin Ling OBE. He was awarded a British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) grant and the John Charnley Research Fellowship to travel to centres of excellence in North America as well as a Johnson & Johnson Fellowship based in Ohio, USA.
He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford and his research interest continues in the academic Hip Unit in Exeter. He is supervising several higher degrees in collaboration with Bath University. He is a member of the Educational advisory board for the Homer Stryker Center based in Mahwah, New Jersey. He lectures on hip surgery extensively both nationally and internationally.
John has been elected to the Council of the BOA where he serves on the Executive and on the Professional Practice Committee. He is the elected Honorary Secretary of the British Hip Society and is Chairman of the Exeter Hip Foundation.
He operates in Exeter and at the Cromwell Hospital in London.
E-mail : jtimperley@jointreplacementspecialists.com
Mr Graham A. Gie MBChB, FRCS, FRCSEd (Orth)
Graham Gie underwent his undergraduate medical education at the famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town before returning to Natal for his postgraduate training. He moved to Exeter in 1985 where he entered the UK orthopaedic training programme and worked as an hip clinical research fellow under the supervision of Professor Robin Ling, the inventor of the Exeter Total Hip Replacement. Along with Professor Ling, he invented the technique of Impaction Femoral Bone Graft for use in revision hip surgery. This technique has the capacity of restoring bone lost as a result of previously failed hip surgery and has revolutionised the lives of many patients.
During the latter stages of his higher surgical training, Graham was awarded the prestigious John Charnley Research Fellowship during which he studied at the University Hospital in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and visited The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
He completed his higher surgical training in 1991, and was appointed as a Consultant at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in May of that year. Having now performed over 4000 primary and revision total hip replacements, his clinical practice is now confined entirely to adult hip surgery with a particular interest in total hip replacement and revision hip replacement with impaction bone grafting.
Graham is President-Elect of the British Hip Society.
E-mail: GGie@exeterhipfoundation.co.uk
Mr Bob Sharp BM BCh M.A F.R.C.S F.R.C.S (Trauma & Ortho)
Orthopaedic and Specialist Training in Cambridge and Oxford, completing his training with the prestigious Brisbane foot and ankle fellowship.
Royal College of Surgeons of England 2000; GoldMedal for outstanding achievement in FRCS Orthopaedics and Trauma
exam. Awarded the Presidents Travelling Scholarship in 2001.
Medical advisor to the Jockey Association, Medical Advisory Committee to the Horse Racing Authority. Director of Foot and Ankle Research, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
On many international and national teaching faculties.
Specialist interests: Sports foot / ankle, Arthritis, Minimally invasive surgery, Ankle arthroplasty, Rheumatological and neurological feet.
Professor David Murray M.A., MD. F.R.C.S
Professor Murray’s practice is confined to hip and knee surgery. His areas of particular interest are partial and total knee replacement, resurfacing and total hip replacement, revision hip and knee replacement, hip arthroscopy for young patients with hip problems, knee arthroscopy and soft tissue knee reconstruction.
NHS Appointment – Consultant hip and knee surgeon at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford.
University Appointment – Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford University.
Graduated 1983 – Cambridge University (Honours degree in both medicine and engineering).
Professor Murray is involved with teaching both hip and knee surgeons. He runs twelve unicompartmental knee replacement courses each year and has trained many surgeons worldwide in partial knee replacement. He is also
involved in teaching surgeons on resurfacing hip replacement and total hip replacement.
Professor Murray runs a large research program directed towards improving the treatment and prevention of hip and knee problems. His major clinical contributions have been developing minimally invasive knee replacement with the Oxford knee and in developing hip resurfacing instrumentation.
Mr Christopher Dodd F.R.C.S
Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon.
Specialist interests: partial and total knee replacement; arthroscopic knee surgery including ligament reconstruction; haemophilia surgery.
Specialist in adult knee surgery with a wide experience of all aspects of knee surgery. He has a particular expertise in all aspects of arthroscopic knee surgery including ligament reconstruction.
Particular expertise in unicompartmental replacement.
Trained at Sheffield University and proceeded to train both in Cambridge and Oxford as a postgraduate.
Underwent a research fellowship in Johns Hopkins University in 1989-1990 in knee surgery and research pertaining to knee surgery.
From 1990-1992, he was clinical reader in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
From 1992, he has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon principally interested in knee surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
Chris lectures widely on the national and international circuit especially on unicompartmental (minimal invasive) knee replacements, sports injuries and ligament repairs as an honorary clinical lecturer in the University of Oxford.
Education secretary of BASK and maintains a high profile in International Orthopaedics.
President elect of BASK.
Mr Martyn Porter MB ChB FRCS(Ed) FRCS Ed (Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Wightington Hospital.
Martyn Porter qualified from the University of Manchester in 1979 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of the Surgeons of Edinburgh. He received his Specialty Training Certificate in Orthopaedics in 1989. He has since developed his special interest in joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee and is particularly interested in treating young patients with arthritis and also treating patients who have problems after operations and dealing with revision surgery of the hip and knee.
He uses a variety of fixation techniques, both cementless and cemented fixation depending on circumstances. He is interested in using different bearing combinations such as metal on cross link polyethylene, ceramic on ceramic and metal on metal and some newer combinations.
He is Past President of the British Hip Society, has served two terms as council member of the British Orthopaedic Association and is Assessor for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He also sits on the Steering Committee of the National Joint Registry of England and Wales (NJR)
Mr Evert Smith MB BCh MSc FRCS
Evert Smith practices in London and Bristol and performs minimally invasive hip surgery; complex primary and revision total hip and knee replacements; and arthroscopic knee surgery.
Evert studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and Orthopaedics at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, and Bristol. He was awarded the Lillie Research Fellowship to The Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, where he developed an interest in implant design.
Evert is now Consultant Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre and University of Bristol. He has co-designed and developed a cementless acetabular cup - the Exceed ABT (Advanced Bearing Technology) System.
His research interests include Vitamin E polyethylene, metal articulating surfaces and retrieval studies. Ongoing research in bearing surfaces is supported by his collaboration with the Donaldson Institute, California. He lectures extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the USA.
He was advisor to the British Orthopaedic Association for - ‘Primary Total Hip Replacement: A Guide to Good Practice” and a Co-Founder of the International Hip Resurfacing Society.
He is Regional Clinical Co-ordinator for the National Joint Registry and a member of the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel. He develops and analyses criteria for the use of hip implants in accordance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
As Programme Director of the Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Course and European Hip Meetings, he organises international meetings, for new innovations, and controversies in arthroplasty surgery.
