Mr Richard Baker presenting at The Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Conference

The Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Course

The Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Course is a well-known international hip meeting initiated by John Newman in the late 1980s. Since growing in stature and reputation, it is now co-convened by Mr Richard Baker. It attracts a strong international faculty and is renowned for its debates after each session.

The conference aspires to improve current practice and promote clinical excellence as the faculty present their views on issues valid to a hip practice including outcomes, new procedures, materials, bearing surfaces, design, primary and revision hip replacement and their complications.

Visitations

To allow learning from one another, Mr Baker has hosted international doctors, as well as having visited various international centres.
Drs visiting Mr Richard Baker in BristolMr Richard Baker visiting Surgeons in Holland / NetherlandsVisiting Lausanne, Switzerland. British Hip Society travelling fellowMr Richard Baker visiting Surgeons in Holland / Netherlands

The Bristol Arthroplasty Fellowship

Mr Richard Baker and colleagues run the fellowship which attracts final-year trainee surgeons from both Great Britain and internationally, honing their surgical skills before taking out consultant appointments.

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Further information

Mr Richard Baker

Mr Baker is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee. He is based at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre and has a specialist interest in revision surgery for failed hip and knee replacements. This includes failure from infection, fracture, loosening, pain and reaction to metal debris.

He went to medical school in Manchester and graduated in 1999. He is on the GMC specialist register as an Orthopaedic Consultant who specialises in both elective and trauma surgery, after completing his training in Bristol.

He is fellowship trained having spent one year in the prestigious Vancouver adult lower limb joint reconstruction unit. Subsequently he has visted Munster (Germany) as an AO fellow in trauma. His research interests include hip and knee replacement, hip resurfacing and hip fracture treatment.

He is an advisory editor of Hip International, the only journal dedicated to hip disease and is actively involved in teaching junior doctors and medical students.

Other interests

  • Revision hip and knee replacement
  • Metastatic bone cancer

Research

Mr Baker's research interests include hip and knee replacement surgery, fractures of the femoral neck and hip resurfacing. He has appeared in over 20 publications.

Hospitals

Insurers Mr Richard Baker works with

  • AXA Health
  • AXA - Global Healthcare
  • Benenden Health
  • Cigna
  • CS Healthcare
  • Exeter Family Friendly
  • Healix
  • Simplyhealth
  • Vitality Health (Pru Health)

Personal interests

Outside of work, Richard enjoys race-canoeing and trains for long-distance swimming events.

Performed
over 1,500 knee
+ 2,000 hip
replacements
Over
400 partial knee
replacements
In total
over 3,500
knee and hip surgeries
and counting...
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