George Pavlou is a highly qualified orthopaedic surgeon with multiple years of experience. He specialises in hip, knee, ankle and foot procedures and has been widely published in his research. As well as holding an NHS position, George is also an active member of prestigious professional associations. Alongside his consultant orthopaedic position at Wrightington hospital, Mr Pavlou is passionate about research and has numerous peer-review publications and presentations in both the British, European and American Orthopaedic literature. Patients describe him as approachable, comforting and hardworking.

• 2013 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

• Fellowship training at the Princess Elizabeth Knee Reconstruction unit in Exeter
• British Orthopaedic Association/EFORT travelling fellowship, where he visited centres in Marseille, Nice and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
• MBChB, BSc, University of Leicester, 2001

• General Medical Council (GMC) number: 6025257
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
• Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
• Medicolegal Independent Expert
• UK revision knee experts group

• Early Functional Outcomes After Evolutionary Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Is New Always Better? Panchani SK, Divecha HM, Lafferty R, Pavlou G, Oakley J, Shaw D, Chitre A, Wynn-Jones H, Raut V, Smith R, Gambhir A, Board T. JB JS Open Access. 2021 Jul 28;6(3):e21.00016. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.21.00016. eCollection 2021 Jul-Sep
• Revision knee replacement surgery in the NHS: A BASK surgical practice guideline. Kalson NS, Mathews JA, Phillips JRA, Baker PN, Price AJ, Toms AD; BASK Revision Knee Working Group. Knee. 2021 Mar;29:353-364. doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2021.01.032. Epub 2021 Mar 6.
• Planning for surgery. Pavlou G, Gambhir A. Knee. 2020 Oct;27(5):1681-1683. doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2020.07.079. Epub 2020 Sep 8.
• Complications associated with opening wedge high tibial osteotomy--A review of the literature and of 15 years of experience. Woodacre T, Ricketts M, Evans JT, Pavlou G, Schranz P, Hockings M, Toms A. Knee. 2016 Mar;23(2):276-82. doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2015.09.018. Epub 2015 Nov 17.
• Impaction bone grafting for periprosthetic fractures around a total hip arthroplasty Nov 2014, Bishoy Youssef, George Pavlou, Nikhil Shah, Eleftherios Tsiridis Risk Factors for Heterotopic Ossification in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Feb 2012 George Pavlou Mohammad Salhab, Log Murugesan, Eleftherios Tsiridis
• Patellar Resurfacing in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Does Design Matter? A Meta-Analysis of 7075 Cases Jul 2011, George Pavlou, Carl Meyer, Andreas Leonidou, Eleftherios Tsiridis