General medical practice • Sports and exercise medicine • Emergency medicine • Musculoskeletal ultrasound • Research and academic roles • Health promotion and rehabilitation • Consultative services All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

Professor Patel has a specialist interest in hip replacement, knee replacement, unicompartmental knee replacement, knee arthroscopy, ACL reconstruction, revision hip and knee surgery, and forefoot surgery. He also has special interest in the management of sports injuries, including arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery, management of young adult hip problems, minimally invasive surgery and complex hip and knee arthroplasty.

Personal injury - foot and ankle orthopaedics, trauma, sports injuries 20+ years' experience personal injury medicolegal reports; last 15 years purely specialist foot and ankle reports, multiple injury cases (involving F+A) and high-value foot and ankle cases • Current split 60/40 defendant/claimant • Completed Professional Solutions Expert Witness ‘Writing Expert Reports-Advanced Seminar’, ‘Successful Communication at Experts Meetings’ and ‘Giving Oral Evidence in Court’ • Accredited member ‘The Academy of Experts’

General management of long bone fractures • Sports, exercise and biomechanical medicine

Natural & artificial sports surfaces • Soil, grass, sand, top dressing & rootzone materials • Field & laboratory performance testing • Playing & surface quality assessment • Drainage • Sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) for sports & amenity surfaces • Materials for all sports played on natural & artificial (outdoor) surfaces • Golf, football, rugby, hockey, cricket, bowls, croquet, polo, amenity turf, outdoor sport • Domestic lawns • Multi-use games areas (MUGAs), 3G pitches, 'Astroturf' • Equestrian arenas & tracks

I am a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital Middlesbrough, a major trauma centre and a tertiary referral hospital. Personal injury medico-legal work I prepare personal injury reports for road traffic accidents, accidents at work, slips and trips, and other injuries. Clinical negligence work I prepare clinical negligence, breach of duty, causation, liability and desktop reports. My subspecialty interest is foot and ankle surgery. Secretary: Louisa Cave at [email protected]

Mr Barkatali has a special interest in sports injuries and trauma-related pathology of the knee, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)/multi-ligament reconstruction, meniscal repair/resection, patello-femoral instability, Medial Patellofemoral Ligament (MPFL) reconstruction and tibial surgery for degenerative pathology. Now retired from the NHS.