Professor Kader is a fellowship trained knee and a sport medicine surgeon with extensive experience in knee ligament reconstruction, primary/revision knee arthroplasty, patellofemoral joint instability and multiligament reconstruction.
After finishing his type one Specialist Registrar training in Scotland and knee fellowship in Sydney and Newcastle in 2005, he was appointed as consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in the QEH NHS trust in Gateshead and Newcastle Nuffield private hospital where he worked for more than ten years. Since 2010 professor Kader has been dedicating a significant amount of his time to humanitarian work with NGMV medical charity (www.ngmvcharity.co.uk) and more recently with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/middle-east/lebanon) at their war wounded trauma reconstruction centre in Tripoli/Lebanon.
He is also a visiting professor in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences in Northumbria University and a director of OASIR Research group (www.oasir.co.uk). In the past 8 years he has developed an extensive research interest in patellar instability and tendinopathy. He has published more than 88 scientific papers, book chapters and articles. He is also the co-author of two of the best selling Postgraduate Orthopaedic books in the UK.
In August 2015 he was appointed as a knee surgeon at the Academic Surgical Firm, South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).