About
The credentials came later. The conviction came first — and it has shaped every patient interaction, every clinical decision, ever since.
meet Dr. Ahmed Siddiqi
My credentials are long. But my philosophy is short: the patient comes first.
I am a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon. My specialty is total hip and knee replacement — primary procedures, revision cases, and the full pre-operative optimization work that most surgical workups skip. My surgical planning is built around the anatomy of the patient in front of me, not a fixed alignment philosophy.
My additional clinical focus: robotic-assisted surgery using the Stryker Mako platform, pre-operative biological optimization, multimodal opioid-free pain protocols, and revision joint reconstruction. I joined TCJR — the practice Dr. Roger Emerson founded — in 2026.
Before joining TCJR, I spent several years helping build one of the highest-volume joint replacement practices in New Jersey. My focus there was the same as it is now: modern hip and knee reconstruction, robotic-assisted surgery, and getting patients home the same day whenever the protocol supported it.
I was part of a group of seven joint replacement surgeons. The majority of incoming consultation requests from the call center were directed specifically to me. I don’t say that as a boast. I say it because it tells you something about what patients respond to — not just clinical outcomes, but the experience of feeling like someone is actually listening.
the practice i joined
The Texas Center for Joint Replacement (TCJR) was founded by Dr. Roger Emerson, one of the most respected joint replacement surgeons in Texas. What he built here over the decades is not a brand. It is a standard. Patients from across North and West Texas came to this practice because they trusted it with something that mattered.
I joined the practice because the work done here is the work I want to do. My job in the first year — and every year after — is to be worthy of the trust those patients extended before they ever heard my name.
what I believe
Surgery is the
middle of the story.
I operate on the assumption that every patient in my practice is the only patient I have. Not as a philosophy — as a behavioral reality. I remember every name. I return every call. I cover the Uber when the alternative is a missed pre-op. I have written off bills when delaying care was the only other option. I do not describe these things as going above and beyond. They are the standard.
I do not commit to an alignment philosophy before I know the patient in front of me. Alignment ideology is a conversation between surgeons. My job is to serve the person on the table — not the camp I trained under.
The surgery is not the finish line. What happens in the 90 days before, and the 90 days after, determines your outcome more than almost anything I do in the OR. That is the conversation we will have at your first visit.