Mr. Derek Bennett

Mr Bennett specialises in primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery. 

He was the Irish pioneer for enhanced recovery joint replacement surgery. He is a current board member of the European Board of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeons and represents Ireland at the European Hip Society. He is currently the Irish representative on the European Accreditation Committee for Continuing Medical Education for orthopaedic surgery.

He is the immediate past president of the Irish American Orthopaedic Society and a former chairman of the Irish AO Faculty. He is the founder and former chairman of the Orthopaedic Department at Mayo University Hospital and he has also served as the Clinical Director of the Perioperative Division. He has served on the Council of the Irish Institute for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery.

He delivered the Sir John Charnley Memorial Lecture to the British Hip Society in 2024 and gave the Presidential Lecture to the Oxford University Girdlestone Society in 2022.

He is the founder of the Operation Walk Ireland charity which performs hip and knee replacement surgery in Vietnam and he is the Chairman of the Mayo Arthroplasty Conference which is Ireland’s largest annual hip and knee replacement conference.