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Tariq Zaman: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, London and Middlesex

Tariq Zaman: Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, London and Middlesex

Tariq Zaman is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon based at NHS hospitals in London and Middlesex. He offers private orthopaedic surgery at the BMI Clementine Churchill in Harrow and the Cromwell Hospital in London. Mr Zaman specialises in shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand surgery and upper limb trauma.

Mr Zaman MBChB, FRCS (orth) recieved undergraduate training in Scotland. He then had early junior and middle grade orthopaedic posts, at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham and The Major Trauma Centre at The Birmingham Accident Hospital. Following his junior training, he joined the All Wales Orthopaedic Training programme, in which he undertook his Specialist Registrar training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in Wales, which included posts in Swansea, Camarthan, Newport and The Cardiff Royal Infirmary.

Following that he spent 6 months as a Specialist Fellow in the Reading Shoulder Unit, where he worked with S Copeland the designer of the first successful resurfacing joint replacement of the shoulder. He then he undertook an AO Fellowship in Salzburg, training under Professor Resch, the President of the European Shoulder Society.

In 2003 he was admitted onto the Specialist Register of the GMC. Also in 2003 he became a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Ealing Hospital and is now the Departmental Audit Co-ordinator. Mr Zaman was made an Orthopaedic Co-ordinator for Imperial College Medical students, and an examiner for the Imperial College final MB BS examinations. Mr. Zaman is also the Orthopaedic Co-ordinator for the final two years of the course at The British College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Finally Mr. Zaman prides himself on the close care and attention given to each patient as well as close links that he has forged with various physiotherapy colleagues in West London. He lectures regularly to GP colleagues and other paramedical staff in order to improve the understanding and treatment of upper limb problems.

Specialist interests

As well as a broad orthopaedic practice he has a subspecialist interest in the following:

Shoulder surgery
- Joint replacement
- Arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs and stabilisation
- Sports injuries of the shoulders
- Botox injections in order to facilitate rehabilitation of aberrant muscle patterns of the shoulder
Elbow surgery
- Joint replacement
- Elbow stabilisation
- Sports injuries
- Arthroscopic surgery
- Treatment of tennis elbow and medial epicondylitis
Wrist and hand surgery
- Trauma reconstruction
- Arthroscopic debridement
- Soft tissue problems (eg;Dupuytrens, Carpal tunnel, Ganglion surgery)
Upper limb trauma

Professional memberships

Specialist fellowships

The Reading Shoulder Fellowship - Jan '03 to July '03
EFORT Travelling Fellowship - April '03 to May '03
AO Upper Limb Fellowship - Aug '03 to Oct '03

Articles and presentations

Mr Zaman has authored peer reviewed articles concerning orthopaedics, as well as giving various presentations on orthopaedic issues. Some of his recent articles and presentations include:

The Use of a Mobile Lithotripter in the Treatment of Tennis Elbow and Plantar Fasciitis.
A Mehra, T Zaman, AI Jenkin
Published in Surgeon 2003. Vol 1(5): 290 - 292

Arthroscopic Treatment of subscapularis associated intra-articular ganglions.
TM Zaman, C McGarvey, T Rajgopal
Podium presentation at the EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) Meeting
May 2007, Florence, Italy.

Use of the Lacertus Fibrosus for a Delayed Distal Biceps Rupture.
TM Zaman, C McGarvey, T Rajgopal
Podium presentation at the EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) Meeting
May 2007, Florence, Italy.