Alison Armstrong

Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon , University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Alison Armstrong was appointed Consultant Upper Limb Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon in Leicester in 1997 following clinical training in Nottingham and Derby. She also obtained a Doctor of Medicine for osteoporosis research from Nottingham. She has a wide experience of shoulder and elbow surgery (open and Arthroscopic) in both Trauma and Elective work. Special interests are: the sternoclavicular joint, the teenage unstable shoulder, managing the complications of trauma and managing acute cuff tears.

Miss Armstrong is the Research Lead for the department encouraging and coordinating research particularly multi-centre studies. She is currently a co-applicant for the UKFROST study on Frozen shoulders and the Site investigator for Fracture Free (osteoporosis study).

Miss Armstrong is a Hon Senior lecturer in Medical Education, an FRCS Orth examiner and a member of the Elbow and Shoulder Society Education committee (2008-2016).

Miss Armstrong was also Chairman of the National Orthopaedic Directors Society (2008-10) and on the Professional Practice Committee of the British Orthopaedic Association (2012-15).

Miss Armstrong was Head of Service for the Leicester Department of orthopaedics 2001-5. As Senior British Elbow and Shoulder Society Fellow 2007 she travelled to CapeTown and the Mayo clinic to see Shoulder and Elbow surgery. She won the BESS CPD award 2014-5 to enable travel to conferences abroad.

Anouska Ayub

Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health

Anouska is a Paediatric and Consultant at the Royal London Hospital.

She has a particular interest in education, with an MSc (MedEd) and is on the BSCOS Education Committee.

Gregory Firth

Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Mr Gregory Firth is an Orthopaedic Consultant based at The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent, having been appointed to the role in February 2023 as a substantive consultant.

Mr Firth is dedicated to the treatment of children with both elective orthopaedic pathologies and trauma-related injuries and a strong advocate for their needs.

Addie Majed

Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder & Elbow Surgeon , The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Mr Majed specialises only in shoulder and elbow conditions and is an expert in the management of all acute and chronic shoulder and elbow conditions, including complex revision and reconstructive surgery. His practice encompasses all aspects of open and arthroscopic, keyhole, surgery. He works closely with therapists to ensure the best outcomes for his patients. He strongly believes in open and transparent clinical practice and spends time with his patients to ensure information is delivered in an understandable and useful manner, to allow patients to decide on their care.

Mr Majed routinely performs procedures for common shoulder conditions as well as routinely undertaking complex revision shoulder and elbow procedures for infection, loosening and peri-prosthetic fracture. He works closely with therapists and allied health professionals, in a multi-disciplinary team, managing complex atraumatic shoulder instability, both surgically and non-surgically. He accepts referrals for the management of trauma conditions and post-trauma complications. Furthermore, he manages complex shoulder girdle pain and neuromuscular conditions.

Mr Majed is dedicated to providing the most up to date evidence-based medical practice. He is committed to ongoing clinical and basic science research and has published over 30 papers and has over 50 presentations nationally and internationally. He has co-authored several book chapters as well as reviewing scientific papers for several leading peer review journals. During his training as an orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Majed dedicated time to undertake postgraduate research at Imperial College London, supervised by Professor Roger Emery and Professor Anthony Bull, achieving a Medical Doctorate, MD, based on his internationally recognised work into proximal humeral fractures. He is undertaking numerous clinical studies at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and holds a post on the Research Committee for the British and Elbow Society. Mr Majed has acted in an education and advisory role to the international groups AO and EFORT/SECEC. Clinical outcome is a key aspect of Mr Majed's practice and he is an advocate of using PROMS (patient reported outcome measures) data to support clinical practice.

He trained at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London achieving a BSc in Neuroscience as well as his basic medical qualifications, MBBS. Mr Majed undertook his post-graduate surgical training at the well renowned St Mary's Hospital Surgical Training programme, during which time he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, MRCS. He was then appointed to the prestigious Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital training programme and qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, FRCS. He is a fellowship trained surgeon, having undertaken two post CCT fellowships, one specialising in arthroscopic surgery at University Hospital Coventry and Warwick, and another focusing on complex revision shoulder and elbow surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He was awarded the prestigious WJ Little and Watanabe travelling fellowships, allowing him to visit 6 centres nationally and internationally in 2014. In 2015, Mr Majed was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore.

Mr Majed strongly believes in respecting patient choice and always puts patients first.

 

Radhakant Pandey

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust

Mr Pandey was trained in trauma and orthopaedics at Oxford and London. His main interests are in sports medicine, upper limb surgery, joint arthroplasty and foot and ankle surgery.

He is a specialist in shoulder and elbow surgery and proficient in arthroscopic (keyhole) and rotator cuff repair and shoulder stabilisation.

He is particularly interested in keyhole surgery of the shoulder, elbow, knee and ankle. He has considerable experience in joint replacement surgery and has been involved in extensive research involving prosthetic loosening.

He has the following additional qualifications: Diploma in Sports Medicine and Intercollegiate Board in Trauma and Orthopaedics. I have also completed a Fellowship in upper limb surgery.