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Blizard Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Our team

Our multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers and specialists are dedicated to advancing bone and joint health through world-class research, education and patient care

Our team

Clinical Team

Spine 

  • Alexander Montgomery — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Arun Ranganathan — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Fady Sedra — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Syed Aftab — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Ramesh Nadarajah — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Ben Okafor — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Rajesh Mangattil — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Limb Reconstruction 

  • Alexandros Vris — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Alexios Dimitrios Iliadis — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Kavi Patel — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Dan Church — Limb Reconstruction Specialist Physiotherapist 
  • Jade Brien — Clinical Nurse Specialist for Limb Reconstruction 

Upper Limb 

  • Dafydd “Taff” Edwards — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Daniel Williams — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Livio Di Mascio — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Swee Chai Ang — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Adrian Carlos — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Nick Aresti — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Mahesh Pimplé — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Ali Noorani — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Claire Fitzgerald — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Kalpesh Vaghela — Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon 

Foot & Ankle 

  • Francesc Malagelada — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Lucky Jeyaseelan — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Amit Patel — Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Pelvic and Acetabular 

  • Homa Arshad — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Peter Bates — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Xavier Griffin — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Jonathan Ward — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Hip and Knee 

  • Joshua Lee — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Kash Akhtar — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Gareth Scott — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Graham Robbins — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Sebastian Dawson-Bowling — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Kes Sri-Ram — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Paul Lee — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Prim Achan — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Kostas Tsitskaris — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Rej Bhumbra — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Jaison Patel — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 

Paediatrics 

  • Claudia Maizen — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Paulien Bijlsma — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Dimitrios Manoukian — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Manoj Ramachandran — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Specialist Nurses 

  • Elizabeth Dunn — Lead Clinical Nurse 
  • Kemi Buahin — Orthopaedic Trauma Nurse Specialist 
  • Rachel Ahmad — Orthopaedic Trauma Nurse Specialist 
  • Raquel Baniquet — Orthopaedic Research Nurse 

Allied Health Professionals 

  • Josh Cosgrove — Research Physiotherapist 
  • Catherine Borra — Research Physiotherapist 
  • Seyi Oni — Clinical Lead for BHOC Therapies 
  • Robert McNay — Research Physiotherapist 
  • Joanna Fletcher — Research Physiotherapist 

Operations and Strategy Team  

  • Jamila Kassam — Academic Strategic Lead 
  • Jodie Hutchens — Senior Trial Manager 
  • Sophie Parker — Trial Manager 
  • Ernie Long — PhD Student 
  • Fatma Scerif — Postdoctoral Researcher 
  • Nyasha Kahari — Research & Education Coordinator 
  • Paul Armenise — Musculoskeletal Study Coordinator 
  • Jenofer Sirajudeen — Executive Assistant 
  • Hannah Scott — Research Assistant 
  • Nkemjika Abiakam — Trial Manager 
  • Anne-Marie Stephen — Operations Manager 
  • Lauren Exell — Operations Manager 
  • Denise Bastas — Research Assistant 

Researchers

Clinical Academics 

  • Xavier Griffin — Chair and centre lead, Bone & Joint Health 
  • Katie Sheehan — Professor of Rehabilitation and deputy centre lead. 
  • Jennifer Lane —Senior Lecturer 
  • Lisa Newington — Senior Clinical Lecturer 
  • Francesco Dell’Accio — Professor of MSK Regenerative Medicine & Rheumatology 
  • Suzanne Eldridge — Senior Lecturer 
  • Jerry Tsang — Senior Clinical Lecturer, Trauma & Orthopaedics 
  • Hortensia Gimeno — Clinical Reader in Child Health Researc 

Clinical Academics In training  

  • Hasan Mohammad — Academic Clinical Fellow 
  • Lisa Newington — Clinical Lecturer, Hand Therapy 
  • Gareth Scott — Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 
  • Jessica Pawson — Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow & MSK Physiotherapist 
  • Chris Bretherton — Academic Clinical Lecturer 
  • Usama Rahman — Academic Clinical Fellow 
  • Catherine Hilton — Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow (Physiotherapist) 
  • Noor Shamsinar “Sham” Binti Abd Jalal — Postdoctoral Research Assistant 
  • Rhian Milton-Cole — Postdoctoral Research Assistant 
  • Baasil Yusuf — Academic Clinical Fellow 
  • Ben Gabbott — Joint Research Fellow 
  • Daniela Cici — Postdoctoral Research Assistant 
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