Mr Kash Akhtar

Mr Kash Akhtar is a London Teaching Hospital Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Associate Professor specialising in knee injuries and treatments. He studied at Imperial College, graduating with a Distinction in Surgery and after completing his higher specialist training in Trauma & Orthopaedics, he undertook a subspecialty fellowship in knee surgery (sports injuries, trauma and joint replacement) at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. He was subsequently awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship and spent 6 months in international centres of orthopaedic excellence across the U.S. He has given over 100 international presentations and has received multiple prizes and awards.

Mr Akhtar has been a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust since 2014, one of the busiest hospitals in the U.K., which receives complex tertiary referrals from a broad area. He has particular expertise in sports injuries, arthroscopic knee surgery, meniscal surgery/repair, cartilage injuries, knee ligament reconstruction, realignment surgery, partial and total knee replacement.

Mr Akhtar is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Orthopaedic Surgery & Surgical Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine, QMUL where he is the Course Director for the International Masters in Orthopaedic Trauma Science.

He has a passion for teaching and training the next generation of surgeons and holds two higher degrees in medical education, as well as a fellowship in this field. He is the Training Programme Director for the Royal London Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery Rotation and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He also sits on the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) and is a member of the Executive Committee for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).

He is a founder of orthohub and hosts the award-winning orthohub see one / do one podcast that has been downloaded in over 135 countries.