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Mr Odisseas Shablahidis is a Trauma and Orthopaedics Consultant with over 25 years of experience in international centres of excellence, including 21 years in the UK international experience for more than 25 years and based in the UK for 21 years.

Mr Shablahidis qualified in medicine at the Medical Institute of St Petersburg, Russia in 1995. He later moved to the UK and trained in some of the best Orthopaedic Centres, including in Oxford, East Anglia, London, Bristol, such as at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre and Royal United Hospitals, Bath.

After passing successfully his membership examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Shablahidis became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow as well as an Associate Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in the Republic of Ireland. Mr Shablahidis completed his higher surgical training in Orthopaedics, acquiring his Certificate of Completion of Training in 2008 and shortly after entered the General Medical Council's Specialist Register in Orthopaedics.

After qualifying as a Specialist in Orthopaedics, he completed a further 2 years of Fellowship Subspecialty Training at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, the Poole Orthopaedic Centre and the Royal Infirmary of Leicester where he developed his expertise in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, as well as Knee Soft Tissue Reconstruction Surgery.

He was first appointed as a Consultant in Orthopaedics in 2010 at Swansea Bay University Health Board where he specialised in Lower Limb Arthroplasty and Sort Tissue Knee Surgery. He currently practices at the Northway Clinic in Canning Town, London.

Over the course of his clinical career, Mr Shablahidis has completed over 2000 primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty procedures, hip resurfacing procedures, unicompartmental procedures and uncemented knee replacement procedures. He has also completed over 1000 knee arthroscopy procedures, including numerous ACL reconstruction surgeries and meniscal repairs of varying complexities. He also has expertise in general trauma surgery.

In addition to his NHS and private clinical practice, Mr Shablahidis trains his fellow surgeons during their Registrar training in order for them to become Consultants. He also teaches surgeons internationally on soft tissue knee surgery and sports trauma.