Meet the Team
Mr Sanjeev Madan
Mr Madan is the Director and Chief of the Hip Preservation Service. He has practised hip preservation surgery since 2004. He offers MIS Peri-Acetabular Osteotomy (MIS-PAO), Hip Arthroscopy, Hip Arthroplasty, Day Case/Overnight Stay DAA (Direct Anterior Approach) Hip Arthroplasty, Non Arthroplasty Salvage Hip Surgery, Intra-articular and Extra-articular Hip Reconstruction, and Ilizarov type Hip Surgery. He offers Hip surgery for all age groups. He has devised a new technique of MIS Triple Pelvic Tonnis Osteotomy through one incision.
He was trained for hip surgery by Prof Reinhold Ganz, and in New York, Hospital for Joint Diseases, by Prof Wallace Lehman, Prof David Feldman and Prof Alfred Grant. He then was further trained in paediatric orthopaedic surgery by Mr James Fernandes, Mr Mark Flowers, Mr Mike Bell, Mr Geraint Davies, and Mr Stanley Jones at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
He has visited other centers of hip preservation for his CPD viz. Mr Johan Witt, Mr Marcus Bankes, Mr Richard Villar, Mr John O'Hara, Prof John Clohisy, Prof Mike Millis, Prof Andrea Fontana, Dr Marc Phillipon.
He is a member of the International Society of Hip Preservation (www.isha.net), British Hip Society and European Hip Society.
He graduated from Grant Medical College, Bombay in 1990. He was a Wessex Deanery and then Mersey Deanery Higher Surgical Trainee before his fellowship programmes. His current NHS practice is at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, and Sheffield Children's Hospital.
He has organised several Hip Preservation courses nationally and internationally, and is invited faculty for several hip surgery courses. He is actively involved in education and research and has presented and published extensively in area of his practice. Please follow links for his profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjeev_Madan/publications
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjeev-madan-92b44916/
Miss Caroline Blakey
Having studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 2003, Miss Blakey moved to London to complete basic surgical training and a period of research. Her MD(res) was undertaken at St. Georges, University of London, under the supervision of Prof. Richard Field.
Her higher surgical training was undertaken in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In 2015 she was given the opportunity to spend two years in Melbourne, where she trained with John O’Donnell, a pioneer in hip arthroscopy in Australia, as well as a busy year at Royal Children’s Hospital with Jit Balakumar, learning techniques in open hip surgery including safe surgical dislocation and periacetabular osteotomy. A further six months fellowship in young adult hip surgery was undertaken in South Yorkshire, with Sanjeev Madan, before being appointment as a consultant at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Doncaster Royal infirmary in 2019.
She has a specialist interest in the adolescent and the young adult hip. She is a member of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy and has have taken time to visit specialist centres including two weeks at the University Hospital Berne, Switzerland.
Mr Shankar Thiagarajah
Shankar’s current Consultant NHS post is based at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals. His specialist interests are Hip Preservation Surgery and Hip & Knee Arthroplasty & Revision. He is dual post-CCT fellowship trained – Hip Preservation Surgery at University College Hospital (Mr Johan Witt), and Lower Limb Arthroplasty and Joint Reconstruction at the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto (Professor Allan Gross and Dr David Backstein). He qualified at the University of Manchester and was trained on the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Rotation.
In 2017, Shankar was awarded a PhD (University of Sheffield), for his multi-centre study investigating the “Genetic basis of Hip Osteoarthritis and Hip Shape”. Output included several publications/presentations, pinnacled by the award of the New Investigator Recognition Award at the 2014 Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting in New Orleans, USA. He was also a finalist in the Arthritis-Research UK Young Investigator competition at the 2013 British Orthopaedic Association meeting.
Procedures he performs include all aspects of Hip Preservation Surgery including the Minimally-Invasive Periacetabular Osteotomy and Hip Arthroscopy. Additionally he performs the Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) Total Hip Arthroplasty via a same-day discharge pathway.
Mr Nicholas Green
Mr Nicholas Green is the newest addition to the team. Raised in Suffolk, he found a second home in Yorkshire, where he attended Leeds Medical School and undertook his elective in Boston through Harvard Medical School. Graduating in 2006, he spent a further 4 years completing his foundation and Orthopaedic core surgical training around West and East Yorkshire, before spending a year in Wales, where he was inspired to commence his Masters in Trauma Surgery at Swansea University. After ranking 1st out of 70 applicants, he joined the excellent Northern Deanery Orthopaedic Program, highly reputed for its operative training and was deeply inspired by the practice of one of his mentors, Gavin de Kiewiet, who combined hip preservation, limb reconstruction and children’s orthopaedics. Dedicated to clinical excellence he secured 3 highly competitive fellowships at world renowned centres to train him in these 3 subspecialties. His General Paeds Ortho fellowship in Melbourne was an incredible experience, and he was fortunate enough to spend the whole year attached to their hip preservation team as well. He finally returned to Yorkshire in 2018 and further developed his complex open and arthroscopic hip preservation skills in both children and adults under the expert guidance of Mr Sanjeev Madan at Sheffield Children’s and at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. His final fellowship was with the highly prestigious limb reconstruction unit at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, working with Mr James Fernandes and Mr Stephen Giles and it was during this time that he was appointed as a substantive consultant there. He is committed to education and research and received a bursary from the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedics for his research work on Perfusion MRI in children with SCFE, due to be presented at EPOS and BSCOS. He is associate PI to a large multi-centre RCT and is also helping to investigate the role of EOS scanning for pelvic osteotomies.
Miss Nicola Brown BA(Hons) MMedSci
Miss Brown is Hip Preservation Advanced Nurse Practitioner.
Nicola qualified as a paediatric nurse from Sheffield Hallam University in 2012 and worked in the Emergency Department at Sheffield Children’s Hospital for five years. She took the opportunity in September 2017 to go back to University, building her knowledge and skills. She has worked within the Orthopaedic team throughout her training and qualified as an Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner in June 2020.
Her role includes working on the orthopaedic ward completing day to day tasks in caring for the patients and reviewing patients acutely. She has a particular interest in hip preservation and works closely with Miss Blakey and Mr Madan in the outpatient clinic/ward and with data collection for hip preservation research. Nicola is the point of contact for the hip preservation patients, available for any questions or concerns.
Mr Stephen Borrill
Mr Borrill is Senior Sports Hip Physiotherapist who graduated from University of Birmingham in 2005. He completed an MSc Sport Injury Physiotherapy in 2009. Experience of working in elite sport has been gained working at both London 2012 Olympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He has been employed at Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Teaching Hospitals since 2008 and was instrumental in implementing the Hip Therapy protocol for FASHiON RCT study for Femora-Acetabular Impingement syndrome.
Philippa Fenlon BSc (Hons) MCSP
Philippa qualified from The University of Birmingham in 2008. She has worked within Musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy for 8 years after completing her junior rotations in Nottinghamshire. She has been an Advanced Physiotherapist as part of the outpatient physiotherapy team at Sheffield Children’s Hospital since 2017 and during this time has developed an interest in hip rehabilitation. She has worked alongside Miss Blakey in creating guidelines for rehabilitation following PAO surgery and is the link physiotherapist between the MSK team and the hip preservation surgical team.
Within the MSK physiotherapy department there are 5 permanent members of the team and one rotational member of staff. The team manage the rehabilitation of children and young people from Sheffield and the surrounding areas receiving referrals from the orthopaedic teams and GPs. The team are highly experienced with many years of practise exclusively treating children and young adults giving a great understanding of growth and development and how this can impact upon a child’s rehabilitation.
Philippa is a senior Physiotherapist ooking after the rehabilitation program for hip preservation.
Hip Preservation/Young Adult Hip Fellow
Deeptiman James is the current Hip fellow.
Previous Hip Preservation/Young Adult Hip Fellow
Mr Balakumar Balasubramanian 2015-2016
Mr Mariusz Chomicki 2016-2017
Mr Chris Talbot 2017-2018
Miss Caroline Blakey 2018
Mr Nick Green 2018-2019
Mr Nitish Gogi 2020-2021
Mark Sohatee 2021-2022
Deeptiman James 2023
Himanshu Kanwat 2023-2024