About Us

Vladimir Bobić, MD, FRCSEd
Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon
Director, Chester Knee Clinic, Chester, UK

Email: vbobic@kneeclinic.info
CKC Office direct telephone and fax: + 44 1244 881 931

at

Nuffield Health, The Grosvenor Hospital
Wrexham Road, Chester, CH4 7QP
Telephone: + 44 1244 680 444

and

Spire Cheshire Hospital
Fir Tree Close, Stretton, Warrington, WA4 4LU, UK
Telephone: + 44 1925 265 000

Vladimir Bobić is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon and the Director and founder of Chester Knee Clinic. The Clinic, founded in 1996, is based at the Grosvenor Hospital in Chester where it is recognised as an ISAKOS-approved teaching centre, and at Spire Cheshire Hospital in Stretton. 

Mr Bobić has over fifteen years of extensive experience in all aspects of knee surgery, including arthroscopic surgery, ligament reconstruction, knee arthroplasty, and particularly in articular cartilage repair. Mr Bobić is the founder of the Liverpool Knee Service and a former full-time NHS knee surgeon at The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool (1996 to 2002). He also specializes in medico-legal aspects of knee injuries.

Mr Bobić is an internationally recognised expert and one of the UK’s clinical pioneers in knee articular cartilage repair. He is the inventor and instrument designer of Arthrex OATS (Osteochondral Autograft Transfer System) articular cartilage repair technology. He performed the first ACI (Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation) in the North West of England in 1998, and continues to perform a wide range of cartilage repair procedures in Chester, including ACI surgery, on a regular basis. He was granted Liverpool LREC approval for a Randomised comparative evaluation of Genzyme Carticel ACI vs. Microfracture in the treatment of articular cartilage defects of the knee in October 1999, and South Cheshire LREC for multicentre clinical study of The effectiveness of ACI compared with MACI for the treatment of damaged articular cartilage of the knee (MREC approved Stanmore multicentre clinical trial) in May 2003. He is also a member of the MRC funded and MREC approved ACTIVE trial (multicentre trial of autologous chondrocyte implantation) based at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospitalin Oswestry.

Mr Bobić is a dedicated teacher and sought-after lecturer throughout the world: since 1996 he has given over 200 lectures on knee surgery at major international and national conferences. He has published over 40 articles on knee articular cartilage injury, repair and imaging. He is involved in international collaborative clinical and basic science research related to knee articular cartilage imaging, repair, rehabilitation and functional outcomes. He has 15 years of experience in clinical and arthroscopic imaging, including digital image and video editing, and 12 years of experience in clinical and MR digital imaging of articular cartilage.

He is a founder and former chairman of the ICRS Articular Cartilage Imaging Committee, and Visiting Associate Professor at the Musculoskeletal Imaging Section, Stanford University School of Medicine, Radiology Department, Stanford, California, USA (1998). He introduced web-based MRI teleradiology at the Grosvenor Hospital Chester in 2004, in collaboration with the late Gene Hughes, Dr David Ritchie, Kodak and Alliance Medical.  

Mr Bobić is the UK’s first AOSSM-ESSKA Travelling Fellow (1991), which is one of the most coveted international fellowships in sports orthopaedics. He is one of the founding members of the ICRS (International Cartilage Repair Society, www.cartilage.org) and an active member of the ICRS Diagnostic Imaging Work Group. He is also a member of: BMA (British Medical Association, www.bma.org.uk), BOA (British Orthopaedic Association,www.boa.ac.uk), BASK (British Association for Surgery of the Knee, www.baskonline.com), BOSTA (British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association, www.bosta.ac.uk), ACL Study Group (www.aclstudygroup.com), Regenerative Medicine Society, ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, www.isakos.com; a former member of the Communications Committee and ISAKOS Newsletter Editorial Board Member), AOSSM (The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, www.aossm.org; Honorary Member since 1991), AANA (Arthroscopy Association of North America, www.aana.org; Honorary Member since 2004), AAOS (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, www.aaos.org), GMC (The General Medical Council, membership number 3636149, www.gmc.org.uk) and MDU (The Medical Defence Union, www.the-mdu.com).

Mr Bobić is a former member of the Editorial Board of Arthroscopy, The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, a member of the Editorial Board of WebMD Medscape Orthopaedics, a reviewer at The American Journal of Sports Medicine, a reviewer for The Knee journal, a reviewer for the Osteoarthritis and Cartilage journal, a reviewer for The British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, a member of the Editorial Board of e-biomed: a Journal of Regenerative Medicine, a consultant for the Datamonitor Plc and a member of the Datamonitor Global Experts Panel, a former member of DePuy UK Arthrease Advisory Board, DePuy USA Biologics Restore Meniscus and Articular Cartilage Advisory Boards, a clinical advisor for TiGenix Osteochondral Research Group, a member of Ferring Euflexxa Clinical Advisory Board, a member of the Remedi Clinical Advisory Group (UK Regenerative Medicine Multidisciplinary Consortium), a consultant for Gerson Lehrman Group's Council of Healthcare Advisors, a consultant for the Circle of Experts, Nitron Advisors, LLC, and a consultant for MEDACorp Biomedical Consulting Services

Updated on 3 October 2008

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