Specialists
The TARVA study group includes many of the most experienced foot & ankle orthopaedic specialists in the UK. Each of the individuals listed below is a member of the TARVA publication group, and have contributed towards the TARVA protocol and research publications
Specialists
The TARVA study group includes many of the most experienced foot & ankle orthopaedic specialists in the UK. Each of the individuals listed below is a member of the TARVA publication group, and have contributed towards the TARVA protocol and research publications
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon
Mr Blundell is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising exclusively in adult foot and ankle conditions.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon
Mr Butcher has been a consultant at Aintree since 2002, having trained in the North West, including training under P Wood, one of the country’s leating ankle replacement surgeons. He is part of the diaebtic foot multidisciplinary team and is the Audit and IT lead for the department. His elective work consists entirely of foot and ankle problems but he also does general trauma.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Surgeon
Mr.Cullen graduated from University College and Middlesex Hospitals in 1993 and trained in hospitals in London and Cape Town before taking up his Orthopaedic Surgery rotation based at The Middlesex Hospital in London. Mr.Cullen has undertaken fellowships in the UK studying foot and ankle surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, and in Dallas, USA as part of a British Orthopaedic Foot Surgery Society travelling fellowship.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Tim Clough qualified from the Universities of St Andrews, Scotland and Manchester in 1992. He holds a full time Consultant post at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He is on the Specialist Register as an Orthopaedic Consultant. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon
Mr Paul Cooke is an established international expert in foot and ankle surgery. He qualified in Sheffield in 1977, later gaining FRCS (London) in 1981, and MCh 1990.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
In January 2006, Mr Davies was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in treating elective and traumatic conditions of the adult foot and ankle at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. He qualified from the University of Southampton in 1993 and undertook basic training in London, Oxford and Swindon prior to commencing Orthopaedic training in Sheffield.
Mr Howard Davies is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Northern General Hospital, with a private practice at Claremont.
He specialises in all conditions related to the Foot and Ankle in adults including trauma, sports injuries and diabetic feet.
He studied Medicine at Manchester University and completed his basic surgical training in the North West of England. After developing an interest in Orthopaedic Surgery he undertook his higher surgical training in Leeds and Cambridge. During this period he gained an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering from Cardiff University, studying the effects of using locking plates for fractures.
Throughout his training Mr Davies was interested in Foot & Ankle surgery and came to Sheffield to undertake a one year Fellowship in adult Foot and Ankle surgery in July 2010. After this, he became a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the North West and was appointed as a full time Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in October 2013. He is actively involved in research and teaching for the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Rotation.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Dhar qualified in 1979, his clinical interests in include Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Surgery and paediatric orthopaedics. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Foot and Ankle Society, the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery and the British Limb Reconstruction Society.
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Goldberg OBE qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College London) in 1994. He is the Chief Investigator on the TARVA trial.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Harries is a NHS Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in the North Bristol NHS Trust. At North Bristol he is the Clinical Director of Orthopaedics and Trauma. He works in the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, and Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. Mr Harries specialises in foot and ankle, knee surgery and sports injuries.
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Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Paul Halliwell has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Guildford, Surrey since 2001. He specialises in trauma and problems of the foot and ankle, including those of children. His training included fellowships in Toronto and Great Ormond Street. He is a committed trainer, contributing regularly to national programmes.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Hepple has a broad experience in the management of orthopaedic pathology as a result of training in Bristol and Sheffield. He is therefore able to offer consultation in many areas of orthopaedic care, including sports injury. He has experience in total joint replacement of the hip, knee and ankle and in arthroscopic treatment of knee and ankle conditions.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Hill trained at the Birmingham Medical School on the Central Birmingham Basic Surgical Training Rotation and the Oswestry/Stoke Orthopaedic and Trauma Specialist Registrar Rotation from 1997-2003, where he spent his final year in the Foot and Ankle Unit. Travelling Fellowships include to Harbour View, Seattle, USA and to the Ilizarov Centre, Kurgan, Russia.
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Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Kakwani specialises in foot and ankle surgery. He has experience in all aspects of this area including bunion surgery, minimally invasive foot surgery, arthritis, ankle replacement and revision ankle replacement, sports injuries and ankle arthroscopy. Mr Kakwani is a recognised surgical trainer and has led regional and national registrar teaching courses. He is also actively involved in research and has published extensively in foot and ankle surgery.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Karski is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wrightington Hospital and is on the specialist register. He qualified from Manchester University in 1999 and underwent his surgical training in the North West of England. He completed his specialist training with a foot and ankle fellowship at Wrightington Hospital, and was awarded a BOFAS travelling fellowship to visit a foot and ankle unit in Baltimore.
Radiologist
Following his radiology training at St Mary’s Hospital, London, Michael Khoo completed a Fellowship in Musculoskeletal and Spinal Imaging at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Loveday is a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He qualified in 2001 from King’s College London’s School of Medicine. Mr Loveday’s training was mostly undertaken in East Anglia with specialist foot and ankle fellowships in Cambridge and Liverpool.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Makwana specialises in surgery of the foot and ankle, sports injuries of the foot and ankle, trauma of the foot and ankle, Arthroscopy of the foot and ankle, and Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Marquis qualified from the University of Liverpool and then underwent basic surgical training on the Mersey Deanery Rotation, before being appointed on the Stoke/ Oswestry rotation. During his final years of training he underwent sub specialty training in his chosen field of Foot and Ankle surgery, including a Fellowship with the Sheffield Foot and Ankle Unit.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Qualified from Sheffield University, 1990
Basic Surgical Training and Higher Surgical Training in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in Nottingham and Derby
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Andy Molloy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle surgeon at University Hospital Aintree. He graduated from University of Leeds in 1996 and completed his higher surgical training in the Mersey Region, including an emininent international fellowship.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Siddique has been a Foot and Ankle Surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle since 2000. He held Fellowship placements at Texas University, Stanmore University and a visiting Fellowship at Zurich. He is actively involved in the clinical research in the field of foot and ankle surgery and has carried out research projects which have been successfully approved by the ethical committee.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Singh was appointed as a clinical senior lecturer in 1995, within the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science with clinical commitments at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Barnet General Hospital.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff, Mr Thomas has continued developing specialist interests in surgery of the foot and ankle. Mr Thomas has a strong interest in sporting injuries and has set up the south Wales sports medicine forum.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
He is a specialist in adult and adolescent foot and ankle surgery. He has specila interests in sports injuries, arthroscopy of the ankle and subtalar joints, ankle replacement and complex hindfoot deformity surgery.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Townshend has been a Consultant at the Northumbria NHS Healthcare Trust since 2010 offering a specialist foot and ankle practice.
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon
Mr Winson has an interest in lower limb problems particularly those affecting the foot and ankle. He is past President of the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS) and sits on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA).
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot And Ankle Surgeon
Mr Bing is the Primary Investigator in Oswestry. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Bristol Medical School and his SHO training in the University Hospitals of Leicester. In 2002 he came to Shropshire having obtained a post on the Oswestry/Stoke Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar training programme and has worked in Telford, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Shrewsbury and Oswestry during his rotation.