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.
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.
See the NHS job advertisementMr 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.
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.
Outside of work, Richard enjoys race-canoeing and trains for long-distance swimming events.