When you see a specialist for your joint pain and the problems it gives you in your life, you want to know that they have the expertise and experience that they claim, and that the treatments they offer you are shown to work and are safe.
Mark Wilkinson is dedicated to the care of patients who suffer from joint problems. He is a world leading expert in the treatment of pain in the knee and pain in the hip, including cartilage damage and arthritis. He has been Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Sheffield since 2012 Surgeon receives highest honour in recognition of outstanding research into bone disease | Medicine and Population Health | The University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at SheffieldTeaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2007.
With a personal consultant experience of almost 4,000; Professor Wilkinson currently performs around 200 joint replacements a year (60% hip /40% knee). Independent national data from the National Joint Registry show that his results for hip and knee replacement are amongst the very best in the country; both for how long the joint replacement lasts, and for the results that matter to patients – pain, satisfaction and activity improvement. To see this information in more detail, please go to the My Results section of this website.
Professor Wilkinson is also a leading international expert in the science of understanding how and why patients get arthritis and in developing new treatments, including robotic surgery and stem cell therapies, to combat the disease. See my newsblog for more details..
He is the orthopaedic surgeon specialist representative for the UK NICE Osteoarthritis guideline committee that advises patients what treatments for osteoarthritis should be offered by doctors in the UK. For more details, go to: Overview | Osteoarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE. He is a member of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International Guideline Committee that gives global guidance on the best treatments for arthritis. For more information go to: Guidelines Committee | Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) He is a also a board member of the National Joint Registry The National Joint Registry - Working for patients, committed to excellence. which tells patients and our government about the outcomes and safety of all major joint replacements, hospitals and consultants in England and Wales. Prof Wilkinson also gives regular talks to patient, physio and GP groups on hip and knee pain and its treatment.
The International Hip Society is the society of 100 leading hip surgeons in the world. Professor Wilkinson is one of less than 20 UK hip surgeon members of this society andbone of only 3 clinically active members in the North of England and Scotland. Prof Wilkinson developed the patient decision tool for joint replacement that allows patients to understand the benefits and risks of joint replacement and help them to make an informed decision about these treatments. This interactive tool was developed in Sheffield with the help of patients and is freely available on the internet at Patient Decision Support Tool for Joint Replacement (shef.ac.uk) and has now been used over 100,000 times in over 110 countries.
Prof Wilkinson qualified and trained in Sheffield. He undertook a PhD in the science of hip replacement at the University of Sheffield, which he completed in 2001. He received his specialist training in the treatment of hip and knee problems in Sheffield and at the Wrightington Hospital (where modern hip replacement surgery was first developed). He also underwent specialist fellowship training in hip and knee replacement surgery in Canada, Switzerland, and Japan. Prof Wilkinson has received over £15 million in collaborative scientific grant funding and published 8 book chapters and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications on arthritis and its treatment, including in the world’s leading science journal “Nature”. For more information, please see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tbV4wzYAAAAJ&hl=en
Professor Wilkinson has given invited lectures all over the world on the topics of joint replacement and arthritis. He and his students have received many international awards, including the British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal and Association Prize, Fellowship of the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies and the Orthopaedic Research Society, The American Hip Society Otto Aufranc Award, The American Orthopaedic Research Society William Harris Award (twice), The British Hip Society McKee Prize (twice), National Osteoporosis Society and American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Clinical Interests
• Wear and tear arthritis of the hip and knee
• Knee replacement
• Hip replacement
• Revision hip replacement
• Revision knee replacement
• Hip injection treatment
• Knee injection treatment
• Knee arthroscopy
• Knee cartilage operation
• Knee arthroscopic meniscectomy
Professional Memberships
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• British Orthopaedic Association
• British Hip Society
• British Orthopaedic Research Society
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• International Hip Society
• Orthopaedic Research Society