Mr Tony Andrade is a fellowship trained consultant Orthopaedic, Hip and Knee surgeon with a special interest in Hip preservation and arthroscopic hip surgery.

He established the hip preservation service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2002 which rapidly evolved into a tertiary referral centre. A pioneer in surgical techniques, he launched a visiting surgeon program to share expertise globally and founded a hip arthroscopy fellowship program in 2016. He has also been fellowship director for a lower limb arthroplasty fellowship at the Royal Berkshire Hospital since 2004, and in that same year co-founded the Combined Orthopaedic and Medical Microbiology Service (COMMS) to advance orthopaedic infection treatment.

He has published extensively, contributed to consensus statements, and co-authored a landmark BMJ study on arthroscopic hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement. His research has received prestigious awards from EFFORT and ESSKA.

As chair of the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR) for the British Hip Society. Mr Andrade supports national data collection on all of hip preservation.

He has been a member of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA) since it was founded in 2008, he hosted the 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting in Cambridge and was the 2020-21 president, of what is now known as ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society.