Mr Winston Kim

Orthopaedic surgeon in Greater Manchester

MBChB MSc FRCS (Tr & Orth)

GMC: 4289919

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Mr Winston Kim is a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip and knee surgery, specifically robot-arm assisted hip and knee replacements. He consults at the Spire Manchester Hospital and The Circle Alexandra Hospital, Greater Manchester.

Mr Kim has, to date, impressively performed the largest number of private robot-arm assisted hip and knee replacements in the United Kingdom. Many consider robot-arm assisted joint replacements to be transformative, leading edge technology in joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee. Mr Kim’s routine surgical practice is robot-arm assisted hip, knee and partial replacement surgery.

Mr Kim qualified from the University of Aberdeen in 1996 and completed his orthopaedic training in the north-west rotation in England in 2005, and completed fellowships in North America in 2006, including the British Orthopaedic Foundation Travelling Fellowship. He is in full-time private practice since 2017, after more than 20 years’ service in the NHS.

Mr Kim performed the largest number of private robot-assisted hip and knee replacements in the United Kingdom in 2022 and 2023 with more than 600 cases, more than 1000 robot assisted hip and knee replacements performed in total. In addition, Mr Kim has performed more than 2000 conventional hip and knee replacements.

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Credentials

GMC: ‍4289919

Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester Hip and Knee Clinic (present)
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Spire Manchester Hospital and BMI The Alexandra Hospital (present)

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Sub-specialties

• Robotic-assisted hip surgery
• Robotic-assisted knee surgery
• Robotic-assisted partial knee replacement
• Minimally-invasive knee surgery
• Knee replacement surgery
• Hip replacement surgery
• Minimally-invasive hip surgery
• Sports injuries
• Knee arthroscopy
• Stem-cell surgery Hip and Knee
• Hip injections (including steroid, hyaluronic acid, PRP and nStride)
• Knee injections (including steroid, hyaluronic acid, PRP and nStride)
• Partial knee replacement

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Education

• MB ChB, University of Aberdeen (1996)
• MSc, University of Wales, Cardiff (1999)
• FRCS(Orth), Royal College of Surgeons (2004)

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Publications and conferences

• Acetabular Cementless Revision Operative techniques, Hip Arthritis Surgery. Publisher: Saunders Elsevier. Editor James P Waddell. Pages 261-272, Kim WY, Masri BA.
• Hip Reimplantation Surgery, Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery. Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Editors J Parvisi and R Rothman, Greidanus NV, Kim WY, Masri BA.
• A comparison of the biomechanical effects of valgus knee braces and lateral wedged insoles in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Gait Posture 2013; Mar 37(3):368-72 Jones RK, Nester CJ, Richards JD, Kim WY, Johnson DS, Jari S, Laxton P, Tyson SF.
• Leg Length Discrepancy in Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty, Surg Science 2011:(2);183-7. Peck CN, Malhotra K, Kim WY.
• Modular Tantalum Augments for Acetabular Defects in Revision Hip Arthroplasty, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2009;467(1):199-205. Siegmeth A, Duncan CP, Masri BA, Kim WY, Garbuz DS.
• Enhanced Gap Filling and Osteoconduction associated with Alendronate-Calcium Phosphate-Coated Porous Tantalum. J Bone Joint Surg [Am] 2008;90:1090-1100. Garbuz DS, YX Hu, Kim WY, K Duan, Masri BA, Oxland T, Burt H, Wang R, CP Duncan.
• Porous tantalum uncemented acetabular shells in revision total hip replacement: 2 to 4 year clinical and radiographic results. Hip International 2008;18:17-22. Kim WY, Greidanus NV, Masri BA, Duncan CP, Garbuz DS.
• Mini Subvastus Approach for Minimally Invasive Total Knee Replacement, Techniques in Knee Surgery, 6(2):124-130, June 2007. Masri BA, Kim WY, Pagnano M.
• The relationship of acetabular retroversion with hip osteoarthritis, J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2006; 88-B:727-9. Kim WY, Hutchinson CE, Andrew JG, Allen PD.
• A new biomechanical model for the functional assessment of knee osteoarthritis, Knee 2004; 11(3):225-231. Kim WY, Richards J, Jones RK, Hegab A.
• Do radiographs reflect the severity of hip arthritis, J Daniels, W Jamil, Nesbit P, Kim W, Poster, BHS AGM 2015.
• Biomechanical changes in the contralateral hip joint in patients with severe unilateral osteoarthritis: a pilot study. Nesbitt PD, Jamil W, Jones R, Hutchinson C, Daniels J, Kim WY.

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Prizes and awards

• Ethicon Foundation Travelling Fellowship Award
• Ronald Raven Barbers’ Award
• Peter Mallimson Prize (Winner, Best Basic Science Research)
• Harvey Green Surgical Teacher Prize
• Sir John Charnley Trust Award
• British Orthopaedic Foundation Travelling Fellowship
• PLUS Orthopaedics Travel Award
• Current Concepts Foundation Scholarship
• Winner, Best Fellow Research Award, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
• British Hip Society AGM Poster Prize

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Professional membership

• British Hip Society (BHS)
• European Hip Society
• British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
• British Orthopaedic Research Society (BORS)

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Languages spoken

English