Alexander Maslaris

Born in Greece, studied in Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTh), and trained in Germany in respected high-volume Orthopaedic Hospitals, such as the Medical School of Hannover (MHH), the German Orthopaedic Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (FSU), and the Alfried-Krupp Hospital (AKH) in Essen, Dr Maslaris is since 2019 a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and a certified senior arthroplasty surgeon of maximum care with teaching activities for the German Certification of Special Orthopaedic Surgery.

Dr Maslaris completed his PhD in Musculoskeletal Sciences successfully 2016 at the Medical School of Hannover with title “The Greater Trochanter Femoral Head Method: A Novel Measurement Technique for Intraoperative Assessment and Correction of Torsional Deformities During Closed Nail Fixation of Femoral Shaft Fractures” as well as a Habilitation Thesis 2025 for the academic degree of Associate-Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, entitled „The Impact of Stem Design on Cemented Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty Implants of the Knee. Clinical und Biomechanical Aspects”. He is a lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in Germany, where he is appointed for the academic degree of Associate-Professor. He leads several research projects and mentors different PhD-theses. He has multiple publications at peer-review journals and gives talks annually in several international orthopaedic meetings. He is member in multiple orthopaedic and arthroplasty societies.

Dr Maslaris completed 2019 a research fellowship in San Francisco at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he was introduced in the unrestricted kinematic alignment philosophy. After approximately 15 years in Germany Dr Maslaris entered 2023 the Specialist Registry in the UK to gain a broader international perspective and understand global trends and philosophies in hip and knee arthroplasty. After a sub-specialization in complex arthroplasty at St George’s University Hospital London, he came 2024 to Oxford for a sponsored Post-CCT fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS, and joint immediately the Knee Research Group at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) of the University of Oxford, where he is still active and ardent analysing the effect of modern implant designs and personalized surgical techniques on patient outcomes.