Ronan Treacy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham UK. For the past twenty years he has been involved in the renaissance of hip resurfacing with his colleague Derek McMinn.

Mr Treacy was born into a medical family and qualified from Birmingham Medical School in 1983. He served as an Anatomy demonstrator prior to surgical placements on the West Midlands Rotation. He developed an early interest in research and trauma. As recipient of RCS Laming Evans award in 1991,he took time out from his training to investigate the role that alterations in Red Cell membranes play in the development of ARDS. During this time he also developed a biodegradeable antibiotic delivery system in association with Aston University.

Mr Treacy was appointed to the staff of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1994 . He ran the revision hip service for nearly ten years and amassed a wealth of experience. During this time he helped develop the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing with his mentor McMinn. In addition to designing the first successful MoM resurfacing, they were also innovative in setting up an independent implant specific joint registry in 1997.

For the past decade in addition to a busy clinical practice, he has taught, lectured and operated globally including live surgeries at the COA and Current Concepts Meetings. He has the largest international experience of MoM hip resurfacing and continues to publish widely. In 2008, he was recognised by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham for his outstanding contribution to Orthopaedics in the city.  In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Birmingham. In 2013, he was elected as Staff Governor to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust.

Outside of orthopaedics, he has a number of business and charitable interests and is a Francophile and passionate skier.

Ed Bache qualified from Birmingham in 1990. Following fellowship training at Melbourne Children’s Hospital he was appointed to Birmingham Children’s Hospital and The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 2003.

His main area of expertise is the Paediatric and young adult hip and he has particular interest in the management of hip dysplasia, slipped capital femoral epiphysis and Perthes disease. Mr Bache has published more than 30 scientific papers in Peer reviewed journals and has given invited lectures to several national orthopaedic societies. He is principle investigator for several ongoing national research projects relating to the hip.

-AAOT Certified Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology
-University of Buenos Aires Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology
-ACARO (Argentinian Hip Society) Certified Specialist
Associate Professor, Italian Hospital Medical School
-Attending Hip Surgeon, “Sir John Charnley” Hip Center
-Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires
-Past President of the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons 2017 (ACARO)

James Donaldson qualified from University College London Medical School in 2002. He trained on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital rotation and achieved his completion of training in 2013. Before taking up a consultant post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital he undertook two subspecialist fellowships: a one year international fellowship in Toronto, Canada and a six month fellowship on the Joint Reconstruction Unit at Stanmore.

His practice is divided between hip and knee surgeries including primary and complex primary replacements, revision surgeries for failure or infection, as well as arthroscopic and soft tissue knee surgery and osteotomies. In addition he has an on-going academic and clinical interest in cartilage regeneration.

He has been awarded ten academic prizes throughout his career and has written numerous textbook chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals. He has presented at both national and international meetings and remains a keen teacher. He has co-authored a website for junior orthopaedic trainees and medical students and is an invited faculty member on a number of national courses on both hip and knee surgery.

Peter Biberthaler, MD
is Professor of Trauma Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Trauma Surgery at the Technical University of Munich , Klinikum rechts der Isar.
The department, where he has held the Chair since 2011, handles high volume and high acuity Orthopaedic trauma from a wide catchment area in Bavaria.
He is the author of over 280 publications and his research interests include
Innovative Implants, Biomarkers in traumatic brain injury and multiple trauma, Hip fractures and endoprostheses, Shoulder Surgery, Multiple trauma and Complex articular fractures of the shoulder, knee and ankle.

Professor Richardson held the chair of Orthopaedic surgery at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry since 1993. His particular interests were in early arthritis of hip, knee and ankle. Hip resurfacing, the management of mal-united , infected and complex fractures of lower limb as well as cartilage repair techniques are also particular areas of expertise.
His untimely death in early 2018 is a great loss to every aspect of Orthopaedics in which he involved himself.

Mr Gordon practices at the Northern general Hospital in Sheffield and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer for the University of Sheffield. His areas of expertise and research interest are Hip and Knee surgery , both elective and traumatic.

Mr Baker is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in hip and knee replacement surgery. He is based at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre and has a specialist interest in revision surgery for failed hip and knee replacements. This includes failure from infection, fracture, loosening, pain and reaction to metal debris.

He went to medical school in Manchester and graduated in 1999. He is on the GMC specialist register as an Orthopaedic Consultant who specialises in both elective and trauma surgery, after completing his training in Bristol.

He is fellowship trained having spent one year in the prestigious Vancouver adult lower limb joint reconstruction unit. Subsequently he has visited Munster (Germany) as an AO fellow in trauma. His research interests include hip and knee replacement surgery, hip resurfacing surgery and hip fracture treatment.

He is the editor in chief of Hip International, the only journal dedicated to hip surgery and disease and he is actively involved in teaching junior doctors and medical students.

Michael Cronin qualified from Imperial College in 2000. He under took his orthopaedic training in London and South Wales and developed an interest in hip surgery early in his career. He has undertaken specialist fellowships in the treatment of young adult hip conditions and now dedicates his time to dealing purely with hip and groin problems.
Michael is a a clinical lecturer for Warwick medical school. He also regularly teaches on national and international courses and runs a fellowship programme for young surgeons to train in hip preservation surgery.
He has a research portfolio that includes multiple journal publications and presentations. He has recently had a book chapter published and is actively involved in a multicentre trial looking at the effectiveness of hip arthroscopy.

Mr McBryde specialises in all the conditions that cause hip and groin pain. He is proficient in all the clinical and surgical aspects of the specialist field of young adult hip surgery. This includes femoral and acetabular osteotomies (both periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) and triple pelvic osteotomy), hip arthroscopy, resurfacing, total hip replacement and revision hip replacement.

Mr McBryde qualified as a doctor from the University of Manchester. He then completed his general surgical and specialist orthopaedic training in Birmingham.

Mr McBryde worked as a consultant in Hip Preservation alongside Professor Griffin, a world leader in hip arthroscopy techniques, before returning to take up a consultant practice in Birmingham at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital with an exclusive practice in young adult hip surgery