Spire Methley Park Hospital

Council Member British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons Hospital Consultants Specialists Association British Association Plastic Surgeons

British Association Plastic Surgeons British Association Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons

Mr George Spyrou is a highly qualified substantive NHS Consultant in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. Mr Spyrou gained his basic medical qualification in Greece before relocating to the UK in 1992. After four years of basic training in general and plastic surgery he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd) in 1996. Following that he undertook a pioneering research project in the management of scars at the University of Bradford. He submitted his thesis in 1998 and was awarded the higher degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) for his period of research. His higher specialist training as a Specialist Registrar in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery was carried out in Bradford, Leeds, Hull and Wakefield. He also spent periods in other specialist centres in London and Belgium.

Educated in Ireland, Qualified from Medical School at University College Dublin. Came to Yorkshire 11 years ago and attained my Plastic Surgery fellowship in 2001. Commenced working as a consultant in Pinderfields Hospital in 2001. Commenced working as a consultant in Pinderfields Hospital in 2002 with a specialist interest in Breast Reconstructive & Burns Surgery

Special clinical interests:

Mr James Newman MB,ChB. MRCS(glas). FRCS(Tr&Orth) Spire Methley Park Hospital Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust GMC. BMA. Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) Orthopaedic surgerySports injuryKnee Surgery Following my graduation from Manchester University in 1999, I spent 5 years gaining experience in a wide variety of surgical specialties in the greater Manchester region. In 2005 I made the move across the pennines and spent the next 6 years as a Specialist Registrar in Orthopaedics honing my skills as a surgeon in many of the local hospital in Yorkshire including 1 year at Pinderfields.I undertook a specialist knee surgery fellowship in Sheffield in 2010 working alongside 2 of the UK’s most renowned knee surgeons. There I spent one year learning in depth surgical techniques for all aspects of knee surgery. I was then appointed as consultant with a special interest in knee surgery in October 2010. I am now focused on developing a gold standard knee service for the Mid Yorkshire area. Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuriesArthroscopic (keyhole) knee surgeryCartilage regeneration techniquesMeniscal (knee cartilage repair)Knee cap realignment surgeryKnee Ligament reconstructionKnee Arthroplasty (joint replacement surgery)Young patients with Arthritis of the kneePartial knee replacements (Unicompartmental and Patello-femoral joint replacements)Knee re-alignment surgery (osteotomy)

Mr Andrew Cohen MBBS, FRCS Ed, FRCS (Trauma and Orth) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Knee Surgery Special clinical interests:Arthroscopic knee surgery Knee ligament reconstruction Partial and total knee replacement Patello-femoral surgery Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Orthopaedic Association British Association for Surgery of the Knee British Medical Association Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh I graduated in Medicine in 1990 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and then undertook my Basic Surgical Training in Centres in the UK and Australia, including a year spent teaching Anatomy at the Medical School in Leeds. I was then appointed as a Specialist Registrar on the 6 year Yorkshire Regional Training Programme in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery which I completed in 2001 before undertaking a year of Fellowship training in Reconstructive Knee Surgery in the UK and in Melbourne, Australia.I was appointed as a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery with a special interest in Knee Surgery in 2003, including private practice at Methley Park Hospital since 2007. I have since developed a practice specialising in Sports Injuries and treatment of knee instability and arthritis. This includes arthroscopic knee surgery, reconstruction of the cruciate and collateral ligaments, osteotomies around the knee, partial and total knee replacement, revision knee replacement and treatment of patellofemoral instability and pain.As a consultant at the MidYorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, I also participate in the trauma on call rota, carrying out a wide range of trauma procedures and also specialising in reconstruction of traumatic injuries around the knee joint including distal femoral and tibial plateau fractures.I have published a wide range of articles in the field of trauma and orthopaedics, more recently concentrating on fractures and soft tissue injuries around the knee.

Mr Murti Gollapudi MBBS, MS, MCH.ORTH(Liverpool), FRCS Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Arthroscopy Special clinical interests:Hip and Knee replacements and revisions, Arthroscopic Knee surgery Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust. Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Fellow British Orthopaedic Association Fellow British Orthopaedic Association

Mr Bernd Ketzer MB ChB, FCSOrth(SA) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Wrist surgery Upper limb surgery Shoulder surgery Special clinical interests:Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist and Hand problems Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Honorary Lecturer, Leeds University Medical School Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire Trust. Year of first medical qualification:1983 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Orthopaedic Association British Society for Surgery of the Hand

Mr Muhammad Khan MBChB, FCS(SA) Orth Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Knee Surgery Hip Surgery Foot Surgery Ankle surgery Special clinical interests:Joint replacement of Hip, Knee and Ankle Surgery. Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 1995. Year of first medical qualification:1984

Name:Mr Aaron Ng MB BCh BAO, MRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Osteoarthritis Hip Resurfacing Sports medicine Sports injury Soft tissue injuries Knee Surgery Hip Surgery Special clinical interests:Joint reconstruction in young active patients Total or partial Knee replacement in young patients Hip and Knee revision surgery Total Hip replacement or Hip resurfacing in young patients Arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery of the knee Arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction surgery State of the art arthritis and tendonitis treatment eg Ostenil, [Name redacted] therapy Research interests:Functional outcome of Hip & Knee replacements. Outcome evaluation in ACL reconstruction. Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Pinderfields Hospital Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds Year of first medical qualification:1995 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Orthopaedic Association AAOS Canadian Orthopaedic Association

Mr Janos T Patko MBBs, MD, MRCS/Ed/EEC / Orthopaedic & Trauma Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Hip Resurfacing Knee Surgery Hip Revision Surgery Hip Surgery Arthroscopy Special clinical interests:Painful disorders of the hip and knee Lower limb primary and revision hip and knee arthroscopy Young adult hip and knee related problems Partial unicondylar and patello femoral knee replacement Knee arthroscopy – menisectomy, meniscal repair Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Barnsley District Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Sheffield Year of first medical qualification:1991 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Orthopaedic Association British Medical Association Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Medical Protection Society

Mr Malcolm Rawes BSc(Hons), MBChB, FRCS Mch (Orth), FRCS (Orth) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Sports injury Knee Surgery Hip Revision Surgery Hip Surgery Arthroscopy Special clinical interests:Hip & Knee Arthroplasty (including revision), Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy and Trauma. Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire Trust. Honorary senior lecturer, University of Leeds Year of first medical qualification:1986 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:President of the Ridings Orthopaedic Association. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Member of the British Hip Society. Member of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee. Member of the British Trauma Society. Member of the British Orthopaedic Research Society. Member of the British Medical Association.

Mr Nebal Shaath MSc (orth), FRCSI Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Upper limb surgery Special clinical interests:Joint replacements both lower and upper limbs and Trauma, Knee and Shoulder Arthroscopics. Current NHS and /or university posts:Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Surgeons and Ireland

Mr Ajit Shetty MBBS Dip Orth MS (Orth) FRCS (Trauma & Orth) MCh (Orth) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Arthroscopy Special clinical interests:Lower limb arthroplasty including revision surgery Arthritis in the young Arthroscopy Uni-compartmental and patello-femoral arthoplasty Metal-on-metal resurfacing arthroplasty Research interests:Incidence of fat embolism during hip and knee replacements Cementation technique in hip replacement Setting up local arthroplasty database Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Consultant trauma & orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust based at Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals. Year of first medical qualification:1989 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Medical Association Medical Protection Society Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow British Orthopaedic Association General Medical Council British Orthopaedic Association Medical Protection Society

Name:Mr Nirmal Tulwa MBChB FRCS FRCS(Orth) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Paediatric orthopaedics Ankle surgery Special clinical interests:Childrens orthopaedics Research interests:Deformity correction Arthritis Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon Mid Yorkshire Trust Year of first medical qualification:1985 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Surgeons British Society for Childrens Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) British Organisation of Foot and Ankle Surgery (BOFAS) British Medical Association Fellow of British Orthopaedic Association Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

Name:Mr Colin Tuson MBChB(Rhod), LRCP&S(Edin & Glasgow), DA(SA), Dip Pec(SA), FCS(SA) Orthop Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Orthopaedic surgery Wrist surgery Upper limb surgery Shoulder surgery Special clinical interests:Upper limb Trauma Research interests:Upper limb Current NHS and /or university posts:Orthopaedic Consultant - Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust Orthopaedic Consultant Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Year of first medical qualification:1976 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:British Orthopaedic Association British Elbow and Shoulder society

Name:Mr Phillip Batin MB, ChB, BSC (Hons), MRCP (UK), DM Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Cardiology Interventional cardiology Special clinical interests:Interventional Cardiology, Heart failure Research interests:Heart failure Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Cardiologist - Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust Consultant Cardiologist Mid Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust, Hon Senior lecturer University of Leeds Year of first medical qualification:1985 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Physicians (London) National Audit of Myocardial Infarction National Audit of Myocardial Infarction Royal College of Physicians (London)

Name:Dr Paul Brooksby Dm FRCP Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital and Spire Leeds Hospital Specialties:Cardiology Echocardiography Special clinical interests:TOE Stress echocardiography Heart failure Research interests:Heart failure prognosis Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Cardiologist - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds Consultant Cardiologist, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer University of Leeds. Year of first medical qualification:1985 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Physicians, London British Cardiac Society British Society for Heart Failure

Name:Mr Deedar Ali MBBS, FRCS, Diploma in Laparoscopy Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Breast care General surgery Endocrine surgery Hernia repair surgery Laparoscopic surgery Breast surgery Special clinical interests:Laparoscopic surgery, Hernia surgery, Endocrine and G.I surgery and Breast surgery. Current NHS and /or university posts:Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust

Dr Janet Bothwell MBBCh, FFDerm(SA), MMED(SA), Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Dermatology Paediatric dermatology Dermatological surgery Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Dermatologist - Barnsley District General Hospital NHS Trust Consultant Dermatologist and lead Clinician at Barnsley Hospital Year of first medical qualification:1985

Name:Dr David Fairhurst MB ChB, MRCP Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Dermatology Skin cancer Paediatric dermatology Inflammatory skin disease Dermatological surgery Special clinical interests:General Dermatology, Skin cancer, Alopecia (excluding male pattern balding) Current NHS and /or university posts:Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Physicians British Association of Dermatologists British Cosmetic Dermatology Group

Name:Dr Bruce Pollock MB BS MRCP(uk) Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Dermatology Paediatric dermatology Dermatological surgery Special clinical interests:Minor surgery, paediatrics Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant Dermatologist, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Pinderfields Hospital Pinderfields General Hospital & Pontefract General Infirmary Year of first medical qualification:1991 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Member Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) Member Royal College of Physicians (MRCP)

Name:Mr Samuel Ajulo MBBS, FRCS Practising at:Spire Methley Park Hospital Specialties:Ear, nose and throat Rhinology Special clinical interests:Rhinology, Rhinoplasty, Chronic Sinusitis and Snoring Current NHS and /or university posts:Consultant ENT Surgeon - Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Leeds), Royal College Examiner Year of first medical qualification:1977 Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:Royal College of Sugeons - Edinburgh British Association of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgeons International Federation of Otolaryngological Societies Background Information Professional profile:Consultant ENT Surgeon with Mid Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust. Lead Clinician in ENT. Royal College Examiner for the MRCS examinations. Special interests in Rhinology and Rhinoplasty. Formally consultant ENT surgeon St Bartholomews & Royal National Throat,