It’s a fact that joint surgery is exclusively reserved for the elderly. Right? Wrong. While it’s true that joint replacement patients do tend to be older, younger people are increasingly seeing it as a viable treatment option. Among these younger people are, in particular, sportspeople. These famous athletes with knee replacements often want to prolong…

Biography Mr Mujahid El-Deen worked in Scotland as an NHS consultant for eight years prior to joining Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet in 2014. He has published his research work in a number of orthopaedic journals including Bone Joint Surg Br 2008 and Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2006. He performs high volume surgery at our…

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Biography Mr Vasileios Kefalas is a graduate of the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1996, he went on to undertake mandatory year-long service both in the Greek Army Medical Department and as a working GP. He progressed to work as a registrar at a number of leading Medical institutions in Greece before…

Biography Mr Gerard Lattouf is originally from Lebanon but completed his medical studies and orthopaedic training in Lithuania. During his training Mr Lattouf had clinical attachments in France and Lebanon. From August 2003 Mr Lattouf worked in Lithuania as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon before moving to the UK in June 2007 to work as a…

Biography Mr George Tamvakopoulos joined Practice Plus Group in July 2019 after completing two years as an NHS consultant. His medical qualification is from King’s College School of Medicine in London which followed on after completing two degrees and basic science research in Boston in the United States. After medical college Mr Tamvakopoulos completed his…

Biography Mr Firas Arnaout qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Speciality of Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2016. Prior to this he achieved Fellowship of the European Board of Orthopaedics & Traumatology in 2015. He was awarded a Masters Degree in Trauma & Orthopaedic Health Sciences from the University of…

Biography Mr Rakesh Choudhary underwent basic surgical training in Yorkshire and completed registrars’ training in trauma and orthopaedics in Wessex and South Wales. He also completed a master’s degree in orthopaedics at Liverpool University and completed his fellowship in hip and knee surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Mr Choudhary possesses in depth…

Biography Professor Philip Chapman-Sheath was appointed at University Hospital Southampton in 2003 and appointed visiting professor in the department of physical sciences at the University of Southampton in 2019. He continues to teach and lecture at national and international educational courses annually and he regularly participates as a senior faculty member covering all aspects of…

Biography Dr Edwards graduated from Oxford University Medical School in 1992. In 2003 she completed higher surgical training at the West Midlands Deanery, in trauma and orthopaedics. After this she undertook a one year fellowship at the prestigious Wrightington Hospital Upper Limb Unit. In 2004 she took up her first consultant post in trauma and orthopaedics…