Dr. Abtin Alvand. BSc (Hons), MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Dr. Abtin Alvand is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon with an NHS practice based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He is also an honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford. Abtin graduated from University of London and completed his higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics at the Oxford programme. He completed a PhD (DPhil) at the University of Oxford titled “Improving Surgical Learning and Performance at Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty”. His thesis focused on improving training methods for unicompartmental knee replacement surgery. He was appointed as NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2015, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2017.
Dr. Alvand has particular expertise in unicompartmental and total knee replacement surgery, revision knee replacement surgery, management of infected knee replacements (Per-prosthetic joint infection), arthroscopic (keyhole) knee surgery, and management of knee cartilage defects with stem cell implantation,
Dr. Alvand also has a strong academic background with numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as national / international presentations. He is a regular invited guest lecturer at these meetings. He was invited faculty and member of the International Consensus Group for the management of peri-prosthetic joint infection and has recently been invited to join the UK Revision Knee Surgery and Peri-prosthetic Joint Infection Working Groups with the aim of improving care delivery in these domains.
