Personal Profile
During the London 2012 Olympics, Mr Sivardeen worked at the state-of-the-art athlete’s village and had the honour of being the Surgeon who operated on all Olympians and ParaOlympians that required shoulder or elbow surgery during the Games.
Mr Sivardeen has seen and helped manage many athletes with knee problems, including those linked to Premiership Football Clubs, and has treated many sports people with ACL injuries, cartilage and meniscal tears.
He has also held important positions training other surgeons, representing the prestigious Royal Colleges Of Surgeons, first as a Tutor from 2010-2014, before being appointed as one of two Regional Surgical Advisors for London. In 2015, he organised the pan London Sports and Exercise Medicine teaching programme, and now is an Examiner for the Prestigious Intercollegiate Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS exams). He has been a member of the Specialist Training Committee for Sports and Exercise Medicine Trainees in London from 2009 to 2015, and consequently played an important part helping to develop this new speciality.
At the NHS, he worked as the Surgical Lead or Joint Service Lead of the Sports Injury Service at Homerton University Hospital from 2009 to 2015.
Mr Sivardeen’s research interests include orthopaedic shoulder and knee problems, including sports injuries in elite rugby players. He had more than 70 presentations accepted at prestigious national and international meetings by 2012. At the main World Shoulder and Elbow Meeting in 2010 his research was the only piece from the UK that was short-listed for the best prize and he was invited to give an educational talk at the next World Shoulder and Elbow Meeting (ISCES) held in Japan in 2013.
He is one of the few Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons in the UK trained by 3 Presidents of National Orthopaedic Societies at Fellowship Level and has a passion for teaching and training. He regularly runs Sports Injury Symposia in London and has been invited around the world to deliver lectures, and master classes teaching other surgeons, consultants and practitioners.
Mr Sivardeen deals with all problems affecting the shoulder, elbow and knee in both athletes and non-athletes alike, including; ACL reconstruction surgery, arthritis treatment, biceps tendon pain, frozen shoulder, golfer's elbow treatment, knee arthroscopy (keyhole surgery), meniscal tears, shoulder dislocations, rotator cuff problems and SLAP tears.
