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Jun 26, 2026
Mapping How the World Really Does Hip Replacement
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Joe SchwabHOST
But if you could just start telling me in your own words, kind of how you ended up in this world in orthopedics and how you became sort of a digital health transformation specialist.

Irrum AfzalGUEST
Sure, so I actually did work experience back when I was a university student at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Professor Field's research department and while I was there I was able to see all the different kinds of projects that were going on and from there I did my week placement and then went back off to university and then I would come in just ad hoc when I could and continued doing some projects with some of the research fellows that were working in the department and then I remember one day Prof Field asked me if I was doing everything I wanted to in life and I had just told him that I'd finished my degree and I was going off to do the next degree.

Irrum AfzalGUEST
And he said, where are you going to study and what will you be studying? So I told him I was going to be studying public health at Imperial College London.

Irrum AfzalGUEST
So then from there on, I then did projects with him and I've worked with him since I was a university student until today.

Irrum AfzalGUEST
And One of my big pieces of research was looking at the accuracy of the National Joint Registry data and seeing whether there was a discrepancy in what was recorded at the time of surgery versus what was actually the reason for surgery.

Irrum AfzalGUEST
for the re-operation and on the basis of that we identified that there were discrepancies that were recorded and reported back to the National Joint Registry.
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Joe SchwabHOST
So tell me a little bit, who is behind GAPS and how does it connect to the other work that you do?