Mr Kash Akhtar

Biography & Education

About Mr Kash Akhtar

Mr Kash Akhtar is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee injuries and treatments. He studied at Imperial College, graduating with a Distinction in Surgery and completed a subspecialty fellowship in knee surgery (sports injuries, trauma and joint replacement) at 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. However, his overriding philosophy is only to use surgery when absolutely necessary or as a last resort when all suitable non-surgical treatments (including physiotherapy, activity modification, exercise prescription, orthotics, braces, medications and guided injections) have been tried appropriately. Mr Akhtar is an appointed Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery & Surgical Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, QMUL where he is the Course Director for the International Masters in Orthopaedic Trauma Science. He is a Training Programme Director for the Royal London Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and an Honorary Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne, AU. Mr Akhtar grew up in Buckinghamshire and enjoys football, NFL, tennis, cricket, and listening to jazz, classical, rap & hip-hop music in his spare time.

Research & Publications

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Professional Memberships

Royal College of Surgeons (RCS England), British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK), European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS), AO Trauma (AO), Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA), British Orthopaedic Association

GMC Number

6055341

NHS Base

Barts Health NHS Trust