SPECIALIST EXPERIENCE
- Leading a dedicated Children’s Orthopaedic Practice.
- Extensive experience managing infants, toddlers and adolescent children.
- High volume elective and trauma paediatric orthopaedic practice.
- Consultant at a University Teaching Hospital
- Paediatric Fellowships completed at Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
- Experience of managing high level academy athletes.
- Joint operating with Adult Orthopaedic Specialist Surgeons for complex cases.
TRAINING + QUALIFICATIONS
- Qualifications: FRCS (Tr & Orth), FHEA (Education), MSc (Orthopaedic Research), MBBS (London)
- Benan underwent all his under- and postgraduate medical and surgical training in London, completing his higher surgical training in Orthopaedics and Trauma on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation.
- Worked at Level I Adult and Paediatric Trauma Centres in London and Melbourne.
- Double Fellowship trained In Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery.
- First Fellowship at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne in Australia, including working in the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
- Second Fellowship at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Kids in London.
RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, TEACHING
- Benan is widely published in international peer-reviewed Paediatric, Orthopaedic, Surgical and Sports journals.
- He regularly presents in national and international Meetings and Forums in his field.
- Benan completed a MSc in Musculoskeletal Science at UCL from 2010 to 2013. His thesis, entitled “The role of Raman Spectroscopy in the diagnosis of Osteogenesis Imperfecta”, had a particular a focus on the role of new technology in helping the diagnosis of rare genetic conditions.
- Current research in AI, AR and VR in the medical and surgical setting.
- Awarded a position as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Benan is a Surgical Tutor for Oxford University.
- Benan formally teaches, lectures, mentors and invigilates medical students, doctors and surgeons in London and Oxford.