Our consultants
Mr Erden Ali
Consultant Orthpaedic Surgeon
Erden Ali studied medicine at Imperial College, London and completed his specialist orthopaedic training on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital training rotation and at the University of Cambridge.
Specialities
Biography
Recognising that good communication is essential he involves patients in all aspects of decision making whilst taking into account their own unique values and preferences. This leads to truly patient centred care.
Mr Ali completed a highly sought after National Institute for Health and Care Research, Academic Clinical Lectureship at the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at Imperial College, London. He completed his doctorate at Magdalene College, Cambridge after receiving the highest research grant ever awarded to an individual by the British Orthopaedic Association.
Mr Ali has completed domestic fellowships in major trauma and knee surgery and completed international fellowships in world-renowned centres. He completed a sports knee injuries travelling fellowship at the Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philippon Research Institute in Vail, Colorado and completed a further international fellowship in complex reconstruction and revision hip and knee arthroplasty at a high-volume centre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
His interests lie in hip and knee joint replacements and re-do (revision) surgery, partial knee replacements, robotic surgery, sports knee injuries including meniscal and ACL injuries and cartilage regeneration. Mr. Ali also offers arthrosamid injections.
He is passionate about research and teaching and he has been awarded over £115,000 of peer reviewed research grant funding over his career. He has over 30 peer reviewed publications and over 50 international presentations and remains a reviewer for the prestigious Journal of Arthroplasty. Some of his research has been on osteoblast function and its links to early hip and knee replacement failure.
He has completed a Masters-level Postgraduate Certificate in medical education at the University of Cambridge, teaches on several FRCS courses preparing aspiring orthopaedic surgeons for the consultant accreditation examination and is a Royal College of Surgeons Basic Surgical Skills instructor.
Treatments
- Robotic Surgery
- Primary Hip and Knee arthroplasty
- Complex Hip and Knee arthroplasty
- Revision Hip and Knee arthroplasty
- Soft tissue knee surgery
- Knee arthroscopy
- Uni-compartmental knee replacement surgery
- Cartilage surgery