Consultants' special interests

RNOH Consultant Staff
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital has a large number of consultants, many with special interests and particular areas of expertise. They are listed below:

Orthopaedic Surgeons' Special Interests

Foot and ankle

Mr Andy Goldberg OBE, ankle specialist.
Mr Dishan Singh, foot and ankle disorders (adult).
Mr Nicholas Cullen, foot and ankle specialist.

Neuro-urology

Mr Julian Shah, neuro-urology, incontinence and reconstructive urology

Pediatrics

Mr Aresh Hashemi-Nejad, paediatric and congenital deformity, young adult hip problems, hip replacement and resurfacing.
Miss Deborah Eastwood, paediatric orthopaedics including congenital and acquired deformity and disability.
Mr Peter Calder, paediatric orthopaedics, congenital deformity correction and limb reconstruction.
Miss Sally Tennant, paediatric orthopaedics, congenital deformity correction and neuromuscular disorders.

Peripheral nerve injury

Dr Marco Sinisi, peripheral nerve injury.
Mr Mike Fox, peripheral nerve injury. Complex shoulder trauma, reconstruction and rehabilitation after peripheral nerve injury.
Professor Thomas Carlstedt, peripheral nerve injury.

Sarcoma, hip and knee replacement, rehabilitation and cartilage transplantation

Mr John Skinner, primary and revision hip and knee replacement, hip resurfacing and cartilage transplantation, bone tumours.
Mr Jonathan Miles, primary and revision hip and knee replacements, hip resurfacing, cartilage transplantaion, knee surgery, arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction.
Mr Richard Carrington, primary and revision hip and knee replacement. minimally invasive primary hip and knee replacement, hip resurfacing, cartilage transplantation and knee surgery.
Mr Rob Pollock, bone tumours, soft tissue sarcoma, primary and revision hip and knee and cartilage transplantation.
Miss Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, hip revision and reconstruction.
Professor Tim Briggs, bone and soft tissue tumours, comprehensive cartilage transplantation, primary and revision hip and knee replacement and rehabilitation.
Mr Will Aston, bone and soft tissue tumours, primary and revision hip and knee replacement and cartilage transplantation.

Shoulder, upper limb, joint replacement and rehabilitation

Mr Mark Falworth, shoulder and elbow surgery, joint replacement, reconstruction and arthroscopy.
Mr Simon Lambert, shoulder and elbow/complex shoulder trauma reconstruction and rehabilitation.

Spinal deformity, surgery and injury

Mr Adrian Casey, spinal surgery, cervical disc disease, lumbar disc disease, spinal tumour (intradural and extradural), syringomyelia, cervical spine rheumatoid, artifical disc and complex spine.
Mr Alex Gibson, scoliosis, spinal deformity and spinal injury.
Mr Hilali Noordeen, spinal injury, spinal deformity and scoliosis.
Mr Jan Lehovsky, spinal deformity, scoliosis, spinal injury, spinal tumours and cervical spine.
Mr Kia Rezajooi, spinal surgery.
Mr Lester Wilson, low back disorders, minimally invasive spinal surgery and spinal injury.
Mr Matthew Shaw, spinal surgery.
Mr Sean Molloy, spinal deformity and scoliosis, low back disorder, spinal injury, cervical disc disease and spinal tumour.
Mr Stewart Tucker, scoliosis, spinal deformity and spinal injury, cervical spine, thorncoscopic surgery and total disc replacement.

Spinal rehabilitation

Dr Jan Gawronski
Dr Angela Gall  

Consultant Anaesthetists/Specialist Interests

Dr Kofi Agyare - clinical lead for intensive care - chairman of resuscitation committee - vascular access - anaesthesia for spinal deformity surgery
Dr John Barcroft - upper limb anaesthesia - regional anaesthesia - risk management
Dr Jonathan Berman - chronic pain management
Dr Jan Cernovsky - paediatric anaesthesia - anaesthesia for spinal deformity surgery
Dr Mogera Chandra - clinical lead - regional anaesthesia - vascular access
Dr Michael Cooper - paediatric anaesthesia - anaesthesia for bone tumour surgery
Dr Geraldine Edge - paediatric anaesthesia - anaesthesia for spinal deformity surgery
Dr Mary Fennelly - anaesthesia for spinal deformity surgery - intensive care
Dr Paul Flynn - pre-operative assessment
Dr Rick Fox - intensive care - clinical lead for chronic respiratory care
Dr Rita Gad El-Rab - acute pain management - president of the British Society of Orthopaedic Anaesthetists
Dr David Goldhill - intensive care - vascular access
Dr Michael Hetreed - acute pain management - regional anaesthesia
Dr Ramprabu Krishnan - paediatric anaesthesia
Dr Sue Lowery - paediatric anaesthesia
Dr Faisal Salim - anaesthesia for spinal deformity surgery - intensive care - vascular access.
Dr Ruby Sharma - college tutor - regional anaesthesia - anaesthesia for joint replacement surgery
Dr Melanie Speakman - paediatric anaesthesia
Dr Val Taylor - anaesthesia for bone tumour/soft tissue sarcoma surgery - anaesthesia for joint replacement surgery
Dr Ramesh Vijayaraghavan - paediatric anaesthesia - anaesthesia for radiology
Dr King Yau - paediatric anaesthesia
Dr Roxaneh Zarnegar - chronic pain management

Rehabilitation Medicine

Dr Joseph Cowan - neuro-orthopaedics, pain management, neurophysiology, late effects of poliomyelitis and complex neurological conditions

Prosthetic Rehabilitation

Professor Rajiv Hanspal - consultant in rehabilitation medicine
Dr Imad Sedki - consultant in rehabilitation medicine

Spinal Research

Prof Mike Craggs - spinal injuries and neuro-urology

Clinical Health Psychology

Dr Andrew Lucas - head of service - assessment, treatment and evaluation of chronic pain patients
Ms Helen Smith - Spinal Cord Injury Centre - coping and adjustment, self-help and peer support

Psychiatry

Prof George Ikkos - liaison psychiatry. psychological reaction to physical injury/trauma/illness/surgery. Psychological reactions to medical incidents. Somatoform and factitious disorders.
Dr Hilary Gordon - associate specialist in liaison psychiatry.

Paediatric Medicine

Dr Benjamin Jacobs - paediatric respiratory medicine
Dr Caroline Oren - paediatric neurology and epilepsy, paediatric rheumatology
Dr Wolfgang Muller - paediatrics and paediatric ITU
Mr Peter Calder - paediatric orthopaedics, congenital deformity correction and limb reconstruction
Miss Sally Tennant - paediatric orthopaedics, congenital deformity correction and neuromuscular disorders
Dr Caroline McKenna - liaison and adolescent psychiatry, disability and mental health, illness and injury - working with the family.

Rheumatology

Dr Richard Keen - osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease
Dr Roger Wolman - rheumatology and sports medicine

Sports Medicine

Dr Roger Wolman - rheumatology and sports medicine

Radiology

Dr Ruth Green - musculoskeletal imaging
Dr Asif Saifuddin - musculoskeletal imaging
Dr Paul O'Donnell - musculoskeletal Imaging
Dr Thillainayagam Muthukumer - musculoskeletal imaging
Dr Sajid Butt - Musculoskeletal imaging
Dr Michele Calleja - Musculoskeletal imaging
Dr Philippa Tyler - Musculoskeletal imaging

Histopathology

Prof Adrienne Flanagan - bone and soft tissue tumours, molecular genetics of tumours and non -neoplastic osteoarticular pathology.
Dr Fernanda Amary - consultant in histopathology.
Dr Roberto Tirabosco - bone and soft tissue tumours; molecular genetics of tumours.

Neurology

Dr Jeremy Rees

Neurosurgery

Mr Adrian Casey - Neurosurgeon - spinal injury; tumour; syringomyelia
Dr Marco Sinisi - Neurosurgeon - peripheral nerve injury