Mr. Derek Bennett

Mr. Derek Bennett is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in all aspects of primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery. He has recently been elected President of the Irish American Orthopaedic Society. He is founder of the Irish Chapter of the Operation Walk Charity which performs hip and knee surgeries in third world countries. He is the Irish pioneer for enhanced recovery hip and knee replacement surgery.

He is Chairman of the Orthopaedic Department at Mayo University Hospital and Clinical Director of the Peri-operative Division. He is a board member of the Irish Osteoporosis Society and a member and former chairman of the Irish Faculty of the AO Organisation. He is a member of the European Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and represents Ireland at the European Hip Society. He is a member of the European Accreditation Committee for Continuing Medical Education and is the founder and Chairman of the Mayo Arthroplasty Conference, Ireland’s largest joint reconstruction conference which is held every spring.