Mr Tony Andrade is a fellowship trained consultant Orthopaedic, Hip and Knee surgeon with a special interest in Hip preservation and arthroscopic hip surgery.

He established the hip preservation service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2002 which rapidly evolved into a tertiary referral centre. A pioneer in surgical techniques, he launched a visiting surgeon program to share expertise globally and founded a hip arthroscopy fellowship program in 2016. He has also been fellowship director for a lower limb arthroplasty fellowship at the Royal Berkshire Hospital since 2004, and in that same year co-founded the Combined Orthopaedic and Medical Microbiology Service (COMMS) to advance orthopaedic infection treatment.

He has published extensively, contributed to consensus statements, and co-authored a landmark BMJ study on arthroscopic hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement. His research has received prestigious awards from EFORT and ESSKA.

He has been a member of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA) since it was founded in 2008, he hosted the 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting in Cambridge and was the 2020-21 president, of what is now known as ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society. 

As chair of the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR) for the British Hip Society, Mr Andrade supports national data collection on all of hip preservation. 

Areas of expertise:

• Hip issues and pain
• Hip arthroscopic surgery
• Knee arthroscopic surgery
• Arthroplasty
• Hip preservation surgery in adults and young adults
• Hip resurfacing
• Osteotomy
• Computer aided surgery
• Joint replacement surgery
• Ligament reconstruction
• Patellofemoral problems
• Peri-articular and peri-prosthetic fractures of the knee and hip
• Complex pelvic and acetabular fractures
• Intramedullary nailing of long bones, and the treatment of peri-articular fractures