Profile of Andrew Price
- Full Name
- Mr Andrew Price
MA D.Phil FRCS (Orth)
- Job Title
- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Speciality
- Knee surgery
- Specialist Interests
- Management of arthritis in the young, cartilage repair techniques, knee replacement surgery, arthroscopy and knee ligament reconstruction.
Mr Andrew Price is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust and Reader in Musculoskeletal Science at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford University. His undergraduate training was at Cambridge University and St. Thomas' Hospital in London. He studied for a PhD as a postgraduate student at Oxford University and completed his Orthopaedic surgical training in Oxford, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He is a Fellow of Worcester College (Oxford University), where he is Director of Studies for Clinical Medicine.
Mr Price works specifically as a Consultant Knee Surgeon treating all paediatric and adult knee conditions. He has completed specialist Fellowship training in knee surgery in Melbourne Australia. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the International Cartilage Repair Society. He performs surgical treatments for all knee conditions including total and partial knee replacement, osteotomy, revision knee replacement, keyhole arthroscopy, cruciate ligament reconstruction, patella stabilisation and cartilage repair techniques.
Mr Price has a special interest in treating cartilage problems within the young adult knee and has set up a cartilage repair service at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. As part of this he introduced the technique of autologous cartilage implantation to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
Mr Price has developed a programme of Musculoskeletal Research at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Botnar Research Centre. His interests lie in investigating the progression of osteoarthritis, methods of cartilage repair, phenotype specific joint replacement and the outcome of orthopaedic intervention in young adults.
Many of the hospital consultants work with the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) on clinical trials and research studies, investigating a wide range of diseases of the musculoskeletal system. For information on Mr Price ’s research studies and publications visit the
NDORMS website.