Simon is a specialist knee surgeon from Auckland, New Zealand. He is Director of Orthopaedic Research at North Shore Hospital, an Associate Professor at Auckland University, serves on the board of the New Zealand Joint Registry, and is the current president of the New Zealand Knee Society.

After his orthopaedic surgical training in New Zealand, Simon went on to work in the USA; completing a Sports Medicine fellowship at Stanford University and an Arthroplasty fellowship at the Mayo Clinic Arizona. He has a strong research interest, winning three North American Knee Society Awards, the Mark Coventry Award 2013, Chitranjan Ranawat Award 2016, the John Insall Award in 2017, and the AAHKS Clinical research award in 2018.  

For his doctoral thesis, he developed the technique of intraosseous regional antibiotic prophylaxis in total knee replacement, which is the topic of the annotation in this issue of the BJJ.  His other research interests include periprosthetic joint infection, alignment and outcome in TKA.

Affiliations: Department of Orthopaedics, North Shore Hospital Waitematā District Health Board (DHB, Auckland, New Zealand) / Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand