By: 13 September 2019
Speakers confirmed to complete the programme at the Orthopaedic Knee Conference 2019

OPN are delighted to confirm a host of high-profile speakers attending this year’s event in Leeds on Friday 1 November 2019

The programme has now been finalised for this popular one-day event. With topics including training and development; improving outcomes; and soft tissue knee injuries, it is all set to be an interesting day, full of debate and discussion.

The Orthopaedic Knee Conference is free for qualified medical professionals to attend. For service providers and all other delegates, tickets are priced at £250+VAT.

For ticket enquiries and to book your place, email
hollie.newall@barkerbrooks.co.uk

For any sponsorship enquiries and to book a stand, please email oliver.gentry@barkerbrooks.co.uk

Confirmed speakers include:

Mike McNicholas (Chairman)

Mike McNicholas is a consultant major trauma and specialist knee surgeon with a supraregional referral practice at the University Hospital Aintree in Liverpool, Major Trauma Centre for the Cheshire and Mersey Region. After completing advanced surgical training in Edinburgh, Switzerland, America and Japan he was appointed as a Consultant in 2001.

He has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Salford from 2006 to 2018, Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Liverpool since 2014. From 2008 to 2016 he was a founding Director of a company delivering tactical trauma training for tactical firearms, public order, counter terrorism and SOCA units and fire and rescue services from first aid at work to enhanced D13 levels. In 2013 he was the First Chairman of the NorthWest Firearms Collaborative Clinical Governance Committee and member until 2016 providing clinical governance for six Tactical Firearms Units.

Current research interests include stem cell applications in knee injury, outcomes following arthroplasty, ligament reconstruction, osteotomy and the treatment of focal articular cartilage defects and early arthritis using novel implants, osteotomy and offloading devices. 

Deiary Kader

Professor Kader is an accomplished knee surgeon, researcher, academic, educationalist, humanitarian and a specialist surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He is a fellowship-trained knee and sports medicine surgeon with an extensive experience in knee ligament reconstruction, primary/revision knee arthroplasty, multillig reconstruction and patellofemoral joint instability. After completing orthopaedic training in Scotland and knee fellowship in Sydney/Australia and Newcastle in 2005, he was invited to accept a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon post at the QEH NHS trust in Gateshead and to become a team doctor for Newcastle United football club. This gave him an opportunity to care for professional athletes and obtain the membership of the faculty of sport and exercise medicine in
the UK.

In August 2015, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic