Summary
Mr Rahul Bhattacharyya (MBCHB (Hons), MD (Res), FRCS (Orth), MRCS, MSc (DIST)) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee and Trauma surgeon and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer. He graduated from the University of Sheffield, School of Medicine with Honours and subsequently completed his orthopaedic training from the West of Scotland (Glasgow) orthopaedic training program. He was appointed at Imperial College London in 2016 as the AO research fellow, where he pioneered the use of Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) based training tools in orthopaedics. He has designed CTA tools in knee arthroscopy, meniscal repairs, ACL reconstruction and femoral intramedullary nailing which has been presented in multiple international meetings and published in high impact orthopaedic journals. He has been nominated for various awards for his work and was awarded an MD(Res) by Imperial College London in 2019. Currently, he works at Imperial College in an Honorary Clinical Senior lecturer role. His main research interests include biomechanical testing of surgical techniques in sports knee surgery including all aspects of ligament reconstruction, meniscal and cartilage reconstruction. He also works closely in the Imperial orthopaedic simulation lab continuing his work from his MD on a national level in the UK with multiple collaborations with other leading units.
He is a keen teacher and educator and is faculty of the Imperial MSc in Surgical innovation. He has successfully supervised multiple MSc and BSc students at Imperial College. He also teaches in various cadaveric lab courses in knee surgery. He is current faculty of the BOA Clinical Examination course and multiple other national FRCS (Orth) courses including the well renowned course run by "Postgraduate Orthopaedics" and the Kings College London FRCS course.
From a clinical perspective, he is fellowship trained in all aspects of knee surgery and trauma. He completed the internationally renowned sports knee fellowship with Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UK and also did a knee and trauma fellowship at Kings College Hospital, London. Currently, he is a consultant knee and trauma surgeon with a particular interest in complex meniscal and cartilage reconstruction and ligament reconstruction surgery. He also performs total and partial knee replacements and is trained in robotic assisted knee surgery.