Mr Viju K. Peter is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Liverpool and and Broadgreen University
Hospitals. He specialises in Hip and Knee replacements, Knee and Hip arthroscopy and Revision Hip surgery.
He completed his Specialist Registrar training in the Mersey Region and did further fellowship training at Wrightington
and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital at Birmingham in primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, before joining as a
consultant in February 2008.His area of interest is hip and knee problems in adults. He has quite extensive experience in
revision hip surgery and in dealing with problems related to failing metal on metal total hip replacements. He is one of the
few people in the region with experience in Hip Arthroscopy.
He is responsible for all research conducted by the Hip unit and his areas of interest are ceramics, high performance
bearing surfaces, issues related to metal on metal hip replacements, and long term outcomes of joint replacements. He
has presented and published several papers related to these both nationally and internationally.
He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The British Hip Society, The British Orthopaedic
Association, The British Medical Association and The Indian Medical Association.
