K Hariharan: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Foot and Ankle Specialist, Cardiff

Mr K Hariharan is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Cardiff in Wales. He also practices privately at the Spire Hospital in Cardiff and St Josephs Hospital in Newport.

Mr Hariharan is an accredited trainer for the South Wales post-graduate training programme and a clinical teacher at The University of Wales, College of Medicine. He lectures at Glasgow University and is a national teacher for the British Orthopaedic Foot Surgery Society.

Mr Hariharan is a member of international faculties; Biomet International and Dupuy International as well as a member of  the AO faculty for lower limb trauma. He is a specialist adviser for MTP joint replacement with The National Institute for Clinical Excellence and chairman of  the education committee in the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle  Society.

He is now a post graduate instructor for the Royal College of Surgeons in England and an orthopaedic surgeon with the Gwent Diabetic Foot Team.

Clinical interests

• Bunion surgery including complex bunions and recurrent bunions
• All lesser toe deformity corrections
• Ankle, subtalar,& toe joint arthroscopy including minimally invasive keyhole fusion of joints in the foot and ankle
• Tendoscopy  and ligament reconstruction in the foot and ankle
• Sports injuries including dancer’s injuries of the foot and ankle, minimally invasive ankle sprain surgery
• Ankle and toe joint replacements
• Complex lower limb deformity correction
• Computer assisted deformity correction including congenital deformity post traumatic deformity and post surgical deformity of the tibia, ankle, hindfoot

Research interests

Mr Hariharan has extensive research interests with large a portfolio of presentations to distinguished foot and ankle audiences. His main research interests are foot biomechanics, and foot and ankle trauma.

Professional qualifications

• MB
• Bch
• FRCS (I)
• FRCS (orth)

Professional memberships

• GMC
• British Orthopaedic Association
• British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society

• European Foot and Ankle Society
• Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgical Society
• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers(APIL)

Key publications

• Rheumatoid forefoot reconstruction: 1st metatarsophalangeal fusion and excision arthroplasty of lesser metatarsal heads.Acta Orthop Belg. 2007 Feb;73(1):88-9 Kadambande, Debnath, Khurana, Hemmadi,Hariharan   
• Open grade III "floating ankle" injuries: a report of eight cases with review of literature. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2007 Oct;127(8):625-31. Epub 2007 Apr 5. Review Debnath UK, Maripuri SN, Guha AR, Parfitt D, Fournier C, Hariharan K
• Indications for and technique of first metatarsophalangeal joint arthroscopy. Foot Ankle Int. 2006 Dec;27(12):1049-54. Debnath UK, Hemmady MV, Hariharan K.
• Revisiting the concept of talar shift in ankle fractures. Foot Ankle Int. Oct;27(10):793-6. Lloyd J, Elsayed S, Hariharan K, Tanaka H.
• Multiple osseous tarsal coalitions: a case report and review of the literature. Foot Ankle Int. 2003 Aug;24(8):653-6. Review Kadambande SS, Hariharan K.
• Comparative anthropometric analysis of shod and unshod feet .  The Foot , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , Pages 188 - 191 S. Kadambande , A . Khurana , U . Debnath , M . Bansal , K . Hariharan
• Revision arthroplasty for failed first metatarsophalangeal joint arthroplasties with ceramic arthroplasty and impaction bone grafting A. Sloan,  R. Ramaswamy, K. Hariharan

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