Mr Li is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon with specialist interest in surgery of the hip. He is a high volume primary hip surgeon and his practice also includes revision hip surgery and complex primary hip replacement in the young adult with complex deformities.

Prior to his appointment at King’s, Mr Li was Senior Registrar at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Norwich, Great Ormond Street and Lecturer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. On completing his specialist training in 1998, he was awarded the BOA European Travelling Scholarship and the Royal College of Surgeons Norman Capener Travelling Fellowship.

He won the Charles Manning Prize in recognition for his contribution to Orthopaedics. He is a peer reviewer for the Bone & Joint Journal and is the hospital linkman for the BOA. He was previously the NJR/Arthroplasty Lead, Governance Lead and Lead Clinician for the Department of Orthopaedics at King’s.

Research

Mr Li has published and presented widely as Senior Registrar and Lecturer and continues to do so as a consultant. His Research projects in the last 5 years include:

• He piloted an international NIHR approved study (Celgene) looking at how mutations in the human genome can contribute to diseases such as myocardial infarction, strokes, dementia and haematological malignancies. Mufti G, Marsh J, Reichert ILH, Li PLS et al. March 2020.
• The Value calculator – Assessing the impact of a value based healthcare approach to the delivery of care in patients with primary hip osteoarthritis. Colegate-Stone T, Gabriel L, Sinha J, Li P, Casey J, Moxham J. British Orthopaedic Association Annual Congress, 25 September 2018, Birmingham.
• Total Hip Arthroplasty in Osteonecrosis secondary to Sickle Cell Disease. Medium to long-term results. MZ Farook, M Awogbade, K Somasundaram, ILH Reichert. Li PLS. International Orthopaedics May 2018.
• Long-term outcome of Total Hip Arthroplasty for Osteonecrosis secondary to Sickle Cell Disease. Farook M, Osarumwense D, Somasundaram K, Awogbade M, Li PLS. 2nd World Arthroplasty Congress, Rome, 19-21 April 2018.
• Outcomes following Total Hip Replacements for Femoral Head Osteonecrosis in Sickle Cell Disease. Osarumwense D, Farook M, Somasundaram K, Awogbade M, Li PLS. 38th SICOT Orthopaedic World Congress - Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017.
• King’s Elective Orthopaedic Centre: Our experience of 1000 hips and knees in the GIRFT era. Osarumwense D, Farook M, Li PLS. 38th SICOT Orthopaedic World Congress - Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017.
• Predicting the Underestimation of the Femoral Offset in anteroposterior radiographs of the pelvis using Lesser Trochanter Index. K Boddu, Siebechmeyer M, S Lakkol, Rajayogeswaran B, Kavarthapu V, Li PLS. Journal of Arthroplasty 29 (2014) 1278-1284.
• Femoral Stem placement in Hip arthroplasty. Intra-operative landmarks to judge the Natural Version of the Femoral Neck. Podium Presentation at the British Orthopaedic Research Society, Exeter, March 2014. Rafferty M, Boddu K, Lakkol S, Kavarthapu V, Li PLS.

Current NHS and /or University Posts

• Undergraduate & Postgraduate Teaching KCL/KCH/GstT
• Invited Faculty: SW, SE, KSS Hip programme

• Revision hip surgery
• Hip resurfacing
• Complex hip problems
• Hip and knee arthroplasty

• British Medical Association
• British Orthopaedic Association
• Medical Defence Union
• Percivall Pott Club