Hip & Knee Surgery Website of Mr Robert U. Ashford FRCS(Tr. & Orth.), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospitals of Leicester and the East Midlands Sarcoma Service

Robert Ashford graduated from the London Hospital Medical College in 1992. He undertook basic surgical training in London and East Anglia and he continued his Orthopaedic training in Yorkshire. After passing the FRCS(Tr. & Orth.) in 2004, he completed a one year fellowship in Sydney, Australia under the expert tuition of Dr Paul Stalley, a world-renowned sarcoma surgeon. He completed a further one year fellowship in lower limb joint reconstruction and tumour surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore working under the supervision of Steve Cannon, Tim Briggs, Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, John Skinner and Richard Carrington.

He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Tumour Surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and the East Midlands Sarcoma Service in 2007. Mr Ashford has extensive experience in the treatment of a wide variety of hip and knee conditions, bone and soft tissue tumours and trauma. Mr Ashford has published extensively in these fields. He has been awarded an MD for his thesis entitled "Improving the patient journey in breast cancer metastatic to the skeleton" by the University of Sheffield.

Mr Ashford is an instructor on Advanced Trauma Life Support courses and the Leeds Orthopaedic Revision Course.

Mr Ashford is an avid supporter of Leicester Tigers and helps coach his son's team at Syston RFC. He enjoys hacking his way around the golf course. He also enjoys skiing, watching (and occasionally playing) cricket and football and a busy family life!

Mr Ashford is a member of the following specialist societies: General Medical Council, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Member of the British Orthopaedic Association, Member of the British Orthopaedic Oncology Society, Member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, Member of the European Hip Society.