Mike McNicholas

He is currently a Consultant Trauma & Othopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals FT, Broadgreen, where he has a regional referral elective knee surgery practice treating all aspects of soft tissue knee pathology and sports injuries, with arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, articular cartilage resurfacing, osteotomy and primary partial and total knee replacements. He has an Honorary Consultant contract in Manchester University Hospitals FT where he co-chairs the NorthWest Regional Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation and Joint Preservation service for its 7 million population.
He is A BASK Executive Committee Member and was elected President of the UK Biological Knee Society in 2020- 2023. He is a member of the International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society General Board and Co-Chair of the ICRS Patient Registry Steering Committee.
In 2025 he was promoted to Professor at the University of Manchester, the UK’s largest medical school. He was awarded an Honorary Clinical Chair at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) after working in the Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester from 2019. He was previously an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Liverpool from 2014 to 2020, a member of the University of Leeds EPSRC Optimising Knee Therapies Advisory Board 2017-21. and Honorary Professor at the University of Salford 2006 to 2018.
He is a clinician advisor to NICE, guest editor of The Knee and Cartilage Journals, associate editor and reviewer for several other orthopaedic and biomechanics journals. He has written 19 book chapters, 32 Invited Editorials, over 65 peer reviewed publications, over 160 National and International Podium and over 110 Poster Presentations. He is faculty for train the trainer, training assessment in the clinical environment and advanced arthroscopy courses of the Royal College of Surgeons and regularly invited faculty at national and international joint preservation, ligament reconstruction and arthroplasty surgery meetings.
He is involved in international collaborative clinical and basic science research, mainly related to knee disorders and has won awards for this. Current research interests include graphene and stem cell applications in knee injury; multiple ligament reconstruction, osteotomy, cartilage repair and arthroplasty outcomes, and the treatment of focal articular cartilage defects and early arthritis using novel implants.