Mr Ajuied specialises in all aspects of knee surgery. He has worked as a Consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals since 2009, where he leads the Paediatric knee service.

 

Mr Ajuied qualified as a Doctor in 1998 from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school. While in training Mr Ajuied completed a postgraduate Masters’ degree, and has been appointed a Senior Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics as well as Director of Education for South London Orthopaedics, in recognition for his contributions to higher surgical training. He has served as an executive board member of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK), and is currently associate editor of the Knee Journal.

 

Mr Ajuied has travelled and worked in many countries from Belgium to South Africa on specialist fellowship training and charitable work. In 2008 he worked in South Africa (University Hospital of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg), where he held an appointment as an Honorary Consultant. While in South Africa Mr Ajuied established a new dedicated Knee Injury Service, which continues to serve the local community growing from strength to strength, and with which he still has strong links.

 

While in clinical practice, Mr Ajuied has developed a number of care innovations, including new surgical techniques and a unique rapid rehabilitation programme for patients undergoing knee surgery.

 

Mr Ajuied lectures and instructs nationally and internationally on topics relating to knee surgery.

Fazal Ali has a special interest in sports injuries to the knee and the young arthritic knee. His adult practice, since 2004, is at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and his paediatric practice is at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He trained in Sheffield with a Knee Fellowship in Newcastle and a short Trauma Fellowship in New York. He is a former Training Programme Director for South Yorkshire and is presently the Academic Secretary of BOSTAA. He is Head of the Question Writing committee of the Intercollegiate Board.

 

In 2017 he was honoured with the BASK Ambassador award to visit Mininder Kocher in  Boston USA to help set up a regional center for the management of ACL  injuries in children.Since then, together with Nick Nicolaou they are rapidly developing a major specialist centre for the management of soft tissue injuries and congenital deficiencies to the knee in children and adolescents.

 

He has published his work, written chapters and given invited lectures on training issues and knee surgery both nationally and internationally. He has co-edited ‘Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics’ which is a best-selling orthopaedic text and is presently being launched in Chinese . He is the founder in 2007 of the largest clinical examination course worldwide: The Chesterfield and Sheffield FRCS Clinical course.

 

Fazal was voted ‘South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Trainer of the Year’ on five occasions. He was given a life-time award for training by the South Yorkshire training scheme in 2012. He was twice shortlisted by BOTA as one of the top trainers in the UK. In 2018 he was again voted Trainer of the Year, this time by East Midlands. In 2017 he was honoured by the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation by the creation of an annual award: The ‘Fazal Ali Award for Academic Excellence’.

 

He serves as a senior examiner for the Intercollegiate Board in the FRCS(Tr&Orth) examinations. In 2017 he was elected to the panel of international examiners. Mr Ali also serves on the board of examiners in other countries with the view that this would help advance the standard of orthopaedic training worldwide.

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Fazal enjoys travelling and cricket. He lives with his wife Gill and 3 children Reza, Sara and Alfie (who also happens to be a beagle!)

Nick is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Sheffield Children's Hospital. He qualified from King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1999, and undertook postgraduate training in the South East Thames Orthopaedic Training circuit.

He has completed Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowships at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.In addition he has received the following fellowship awards:

– AO Travelling Fellowship – Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland – 2011
– British Society for Children’s Orthopaedics Travelling Fellowship – 2014
– European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Travelling Fellowship – 2015

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His clinical interest is predominantly management of Paediatric soft tissue knee disorders and clinical research. Nick is a member of the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedics, European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society, British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association and the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

 

He is Mr Ali's wingman for the tough knee stuff.