Dr. Sandesh Shetty

Following completion of post graduation, M.S (Orthopedics) from Manipal University, India I continued my training in United Kingdom completing MRCS and FRCS (Trauma & Orthopedics). I then completed fellowship training in hip and knee arthroplasty, joint preservation surgery, soft tissue/sports injuries around the knee and Orthopedic Trauma. I pursued a subspecialty interest in limb reconstructive surgery in Orthopedics.

Prior to this assignment at Aster I worked as a Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon at Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom with a subspecialty interest in lower limb arthroplasty complex trauma management and limb reconstruction. I continue to remain as an in an elite my Honorary Consultant in Orthopedics at Kings College Hospital. The experience of working in an elite teaching institution as well as a major trauma center helped me to evolve as a competent surgeon managing complex elective orthopedic and trauma patients. It also provided me with a an opportunity to engage in continuing professional development as well as to involve in teaching and training medical students and orthopedic trainees over the last 15 years

• Primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty
• Complex joint preservation surgeries around the knee
• Soft tissue/sports injuries-arthroscopic procedure for ligament reconstruction meniscal repair and cartilage regeneration
• Complex adult and pediatric trauma and fracture management
• Limb reconstruction procedures for septic and aseptic nonunion, infected joints, deformity correction and leg length equalizing procedures
• Management of complex foot and ankle deformity
• Management of complex foot and ankle deformities, arthroscopic management of ankle injuries and ligament reconstruction

• Multiple charity missions as part of IDEALS, UK and Medical Aid for Palestine to Gaza in the last 10 years
• Charity missions in Africa as a part of the British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training. (BFIRST).

Publications

• Correction of Foot Deformities from Charcot Arthropathy with the Taylor Spatial
  Frame: A 7–14 year Follow-up
• Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr. 2021 May-Aug; 16(2): 96–101.• The Retrograde Kirschner Wire Extraction Technique: A Simple and Time-SavingTool in Intra-Articular Fracture Reduction
  Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2021 Oct;103(9): 703-704.
• Mental Disorder in Limb Reconstruction prevalence, associations and impact on
  work disability
  Journal of Psychosomatic Research 89 (2016) 53-60
• Intentional Deformation & Closure of Soft Tissue Defect in Open Tibial Fracture
  with Taylor Spatial Frame – A Simple Technique
  Journal of Trauma – Vol 27, No 18 August 2013

• AO Trauma Foundation
• British Limb Reconstruction Society
• British Orthopaedic Association
• General Medical Council
•  British Medical Association