Mr George Pavlou

Mr. George Pavlou qualified in 2001 and currently practices as an NHS and private consultant with a specialist interest in adult reconstruction at Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. Furthermore he has practising privileges at Euxton Hall Hospital. He completed his specialist orthopaedic training at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital followed by fellowship training at the Princess Elizabeth Knee Reconstruction unit in Exeter.In addition George was awarded the British Orthopaedic Association/EFORT travelling fellowship, where he visited centres in Marseille, Nice and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. His clinical interests are that of joint replacement surgery of the knee and revision surgery for infection and aseptic loosening. His is a high volume knee replacement surgeon working in a tertiary centre, often dealing with complex problems of failed or problem knee replacements. His volume of knee replacement and redo/revision replacements is approx 3 times the national average. He is able to provide differing knee replacement options include newer technology implants and custom technology for those patients looking to explore these options. He has also developed a specialist interest in arthroscopic surgery of the knee. He is lead for enhanced recovery at Wrightington hospital and also promotes this gold standard of practice privately.He is an active member of the British Orthopaedic Association, British Association for Surgery of the Knee and Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. He has recently been invited to be a member of the national UK revision knee experts group and also sits on the UK national committee for peri-prosthetic infection consensus group. Academically he is invited to speak at national and international seminars in orthopaedic surgery and is widely published in the medical literature.