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Mr Nikhil Shah

PERSONAL DETAILS

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Nikhil Shah: Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Cheshire

Name

Mr Nikhil Shah

Job title

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

Position

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Clinical Director Trauma

Primary specialtyOrthopaedic Surgery

Year qualified

1995

Qualifications

FRCS (TR&Orth)
FRCS (Glasg)
MCh (orth)
MS DNB

Professional memberships

British Orthopaedic Association
British Hip Society
British Trauma Society

GMC No.

5185583

Date of GMC registration (dd/mm/yyyy)19 May 1999

CONTACT DETAILS

Address

Consultantcare Ltd
PO Box 75

City/Town

Manchester

County

Greater Manchester

Postcode

M16 8RN

Telephone

Sec: 0161 232 2426 (Wed, Thurs, Fri only)

Fax

0161 232 2441

Professional profile

Mr Shah provides the regional tertiary pelvic- acetabular traumaservice with a special interest in hip and knee joint replacements, long bone and joint articular fractures, and knee arthroscopy. My workload consists of specialised and general trauma of lower and upper limb, periprosthetic fractures around joint replacements, and soft tissue injuries arising from accidents, falls and other mechanisms.

Orthopaedic training: North West Orthopaedic Training programme

Fellowships: Wrightington hospital, O&A Institute, Toronto, Canada.

Awards:

BOA- Zimmer Travelling fellowship – 2005

Young Ambassador of the British Orthopaedic association – 2004

Walter Mercer medal for FRCS (orth) exam – 2003

Edward Burton MemorialPrize FRCS (orth) – 2003

The John Charnley prize - 2002

SERVICES OFFERED

Areas of expertise

Primary hip replacement in young adults and elderly
Complex primary hip replacement
Primary and complex primary knee replacement
Young adult with hip and knee arthritis
Post trauma hip replacement/reconstruction after hip/acetabular fracture
Complex acetabular reconstruction - pelvic discontinuity
Hip replacement after femoral deformity, Perthes, SUFE, dysplasia
Knee arthroscopy, meniscal tears
Regional Tertiary North West Pelvic Acetabular Fracture Service
Pelvic and acetabular fractures
Periprosthetic fractures of the acetabulum
Periprosthetic fractures around hip knee replacements
General orthopaedic trauma and fractures, soft tissue injuries
Long bone and peri-articular fractures

Medico-legal experience

Mr Shah’s special area of practice is pelvic and acetabular fractures. He provides personal injury and clinical negligence medical reports for solicitors, insurance companies & reporting agencies on injuries arising from RTA, trips, slips, falls, major trauma, upper & lower limb and pelvic fractures (wrist, hip, tibia, ankle,etc), soft tissue neck/ back injuries (whiplash), soft tissue & ligament injuries of knee, ankle & periprosthetic fractures.

Claimant / defendant/ single joint expert 40:40:10 approximately.

Key publications

“The evidence of hip resurfacing”. Nikhil Shah, Martyn Porter. “Evidence based orthopaedics” TFM publication 2006.

Kumar, N.A. Shah et al. Operative management of acetabular fractures-A review of 73 fractures. Injury,Vol 36, Issue 5, May 2005, 605-612.

Review Article- Nikhil Shah, Martyn Porter. The Evolution of Cemented Stems. in “Orthopaedics”. Aug 2005, Vol 28, No. 8, SUPP, p 1 to 7.

Court experience

Single attendance to date in 5 years.

Time frame for delivery of reports

Within twenty working days

Fees (Please provide details of your fee structure - optional)

On enquiry

Nikhil.Shah@consultantcare.com

WebsiteMr Nikhil Shah

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