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Mr Syam Morapudi is a highly-esteemed Orthopaedic Consultant with a special interest in osteotomy surgery to realign the leg in young patients with knee arthritis. He has performed high numbers of arthroplasty surgeries with excellent results and feedback from patients.

He has been an orthopaedic surgeon in Macclesfield for many years, qualifying in India at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, which is a highly respected medical institute. Whilst in India he worked in rural settings in a mission hospital for three years, after which he gained experience in cardiac ICU. He undertook his Trauma and Orthopaedic training in the north-west of the UK and completed his specialist qualification - FRCS in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Following this, he completed two fellowships for a period of 18months in Melbourne in primary, complex and revision hip and knee replacement, soft-tissue reconstruction of the knee, and complex trauma.

Mr Morapudi has been independently performing joint replacement surgery since 2008.

Mr Syam Morapudi's research interests include clinical outcomes in patients with a metal-on-metal hip replacement, along with looking at natural remedies for patients suffering from arthritis.