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North East Hip & Knee Surgery
About me
Mr. Loughead is a Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon based in the North East of England. He graduated from Newcastle University in 1998, and subsequently undertook specialty training in the Northern Deanery. He undertook further fellowship training in London, Ontario, before taking up a Consultant post at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead. He has worked in private practice since 2011. Mr Loughead is a Fellow of the Royal college of Surgeons of England and has a Masters Degree (MSc) in Applied Biomechanics.
Areas of interest include:
Hip replacement and revision
Knee replacement and revision
Robotic assisted (Mako) surgery
Knee arthroscopy and partial knee replacement
Young adult hip pathology
Hip arthroscopy
Memberships:
British Orthopaedic Association
British Hip Society
British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
His areas of research interest are in computer assisted surgery and joint replacement.
Publications:
Book Chapters:
"Hip navigation" Evidenced Based Orthopaedics Ed. M Bhandari
"Surgical Approaches" Postgraduate Orthopaedics: The candidates guide to the FRCS Orth Ed. P Banazskiwiecz
Surgical Journals:
23 Year outcome of the porous coated anatomic hip replacement. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Am
Comparison of femoral offset in Birmingham Hip resurfacing and hybrid total hip arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Br
Removal of acetabular bone in resurfacing arthroplasty of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Br
Outcome following knee arthroplasty beyond 15 years. The Knee