Abtin Alvand

Abtin Alvand is a Consultant Knee Surgeon with an NHS practice based at the world-renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. His practice focuses entirely on knee arthroplasty (Unicompartmental, Total, and Revision). He is one of the highest volume revision knee surgeons in England based on the National Joint Registry.

Abtin graduated from the University of London and completed his Orthopaedic training on the Oxford rotation. He has a particularly strong background in surgical education having previously completed a PhD at the University of Oxford focusing on simulation-based surgical training methods to improve surgical performance in unicompartmental knee replacement. He was appointed to the prestigious post of NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2015, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2017. He undertook two post-CCT sub-specialist clinical fellowships focusing on complex hip and knee surgery in Oxford and Stanmore (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital). He was a European Bone & Joint Infection Society Travelling Fellow and completed a fellowship focusing on peri-prosthetic joint infection at the Rothman Institute (Philadelphia, USA) with Prof. J Parvizi.

Abtin has published widely in the field of knee surgery and has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and over 300 national and international presentations. Currently, his research and clinical work revolve around prosthetic joint infection, revision arthroplasty, and unicompartmental knee replacement. He has also been a member of the BASK Revision Knee Working Group which helped develop guidelines to improve the management of patients with problematic knee replacements. He has published and lectured widely in the field of simulation-based surgical training and have previously worked on the BASK Simulation Consensus Committee between 2015 to 2018. He is the current Knee Fellowship Director at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and the Major Revision Knee Arthroplasty Network Lead for Southeast UK (Thames Valley Region). He also serves on the BAJIR (Bone and Joint Infection Registry) Committee as an Executive Committee member. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the 2025 International Consensus Meeting on Prosthetic Joint Infection.