Chinmay Gupte

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College London

Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader (Associate Professor) in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals.  Chinmay is a member of the BASK executive committee and BASK lead in research, as well as NIHR clinical research network NW London lead. He is also clinical director of the 30 yr established Wellington knee unit and CEO of Sportshealing ltd.

His main clinical interests are in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscus root repairs, multiligment injuries, adolescent knee injuries, patellofemoral instability, osteochondral injuries and robotic knee unicompartmental and total knee replacement.

As director of training for trauma and orthopaedics for London deanery NW Thames (2011-2018) Mr Gupte helped reshape training for the consultants of the future in this region. He is also past President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 100 papers in his research interests which include lateral tenodesis in ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair, MPFL reconstruction, joint fluid analysis, chondral replacement and  simulation training of knee surgeons.

His time as captain of Oxford University and professional cricketer in 1995/6 has given Chinmay added insight into the unique needs of sportsmen in returning to sport after injury; experience that he brings to bear in his clinical practice.

Stephen Guy

Trauma & Sports Knee Surgeon, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Stephen Guy was appointed as a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in 2011 after finishing two prestigious knee fellowships. Locally, he has recently moved from trauma lead to driving improvements in ‘silver trauma’ with lead roles in hip fracture, fragility fracture and bringing the virtual fracture services online. He also chairs the Yorkshire sports knee meetings that he set up in 2012. 

Since commencing at his trust he has helped commence an award winning acute MSK service - with now daily sports clinics with SEM / Physio specialists input feeding into his sports knee clinic - all with same day MRI. This has been part of a PhD project. 

He has ongoing multiple research interests and has supervised MSc and PhD projects. Currently has ongoing links with Leeds University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Bradford University. 

He has a complex knee practice and treats both elite athletes in many sports to the aging weekend-warrior (to whom he has a warm affinity!). He remains a keen athlete, sports club captain and sports coach. 

Kate Jackson

Sport and Exercise Medicine physician, co-founder and trustee for Power Up To Play

Kate Jackson DipSEM FSEM is a Sport and Exercise Medicine physician and co-founder and trustee for the youth sport injury prevention initiative Power Up To Play (www.poweruptoplay.org)

Kate has worked in sports and exercise medicine for 20 years training initially as a GPSI then as a SEM specialist in 2013. She’s worked in many areas of sport and exercise medicine including NHS MSK clinics, the English Institute of Sport, the MOD, team travel with England Netball and England Hockey and at London 2012. Kate was a Bath University SEM examiner and a clinical researcher in SEM at Oxford University for 5 years. Most recently she was the Academy and Women’s Doctor at Oxford United Football Club where she saw first-hand the physical, psychological and social impact of ACL ruptures in youth players. This sparked her interest in ACL injury prevention and in particular in the widespread use of a structured, evidence-based, injury prevention warm-up to reduce ACL injuries at all levels of sport. 

Power Up To Play is a charity initiative (Charity registration 1182851). Set up in 2019 with the aim of providing free education and injury prevention training to coaches in grassroot sports clubs. We now have over 120 ambassadors/trainers across the UK and would love to have more! We would ultimately like to see a generational shift in injury prevention warm-up at grassroot level where it is the norm rather than the exception! Please get in touch if you’d like to help this initiative in any way info@poweruptoplay.org

James Murray

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Lead for Knee Surgery, Avon Orthopaedic Centre Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust

James Murray started his practice as an orthopaedic consultant in Bristol in 2007. He holds an elective NHS Consultant post at The Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, where he is the Specialty Lead for Knee Surgery and Co-Lead of the Regional Knee Network, previously having been Director for Elective Orthopaedics 2017 – 2020 and Director for Trauma from 2008-2012. James is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Bristol Medical School. 

James has a keen research and training interest having written numerous published peer-reviewed papers (91) and one book, A to Z of Musculoskeletal and Trauma Radiology.. He is also a current reviewer for scientific journals, including the Bone and Joint Journal and The Knee, having previously reviewed for Injury, Acta Orthopaedica and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. James leads on a number of trials and contributes to others as a co-investigator; he works closely with his colleagues as a member of the Bristol Knee Group which carries out research and teaching related to knee surgery both in the UK and internationally. He is a member of both national (BASK Working Groups for Meniscus, Injury Prevention, Joint Preservation, Multi-ligament Injury, Primary Arthroplasty and Revision Knee Surgery) and international collaborative. 

James Robinson

Specialist Knee Surgeon

James is a Specialist Knee Surgeon based in Bristol and Bath and a founding partner of Knee Specialists. He is a past member of the ESSKA Arthroscopy Committee, chairman of the ESSKA Collateral ligaments Working Group and is currently co-chairman of the ISAKOS Sports Knee Preservation Committee, member of the scientific committee of the ACL Study Group and a member of the Meniscus International Network Study Group. He also sits on the steering committee for the UK National Ligament registry. He was an expert panel member for the 2022 ESSKA Revision ACL Consensus, member of the steering committees for the 2024 combined AOSSM-ESSKA Meniscus rehabilitation consensus and the forthcoming ESSKA consensus on the management of Meniscus Root and Ramp Tears.

James trained in London and his post-graduate Master of Surgery degree at Imperial College was on the biomechanics of the posteromedial corner of the knee. His fellowship training was at the Clinique du Sport, Bordeaux-Merignac and at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol where he was then appointed as Consultant with Special Interest in Complex Knee Reconstruction.  He spent 18 months on sabbatical at the International Knee and Joint Centre in Abu Dhabi.

He has published over 70 research papers and book chapters on knee surgery and his ligament research has won the BASK President’s medal as well as awards at the French Arthroscopy and German Speaking Arthroscopy Societies. James has developed both instrumentation and techniques for arthroscopic surgery and is regularly invited to lecture and teach internationally on aspects of sports knee surgery, such as ligament reconstruction, meniscal repair and osteotomy.