Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Foot and Ankle Specialist,
Mr Hariharan (or Hari as he is often referred to by his patients) undertook his undergraduate medical training at the prestigious Madras Medical College and his orthopaedic training in Wales. He then completed an observer fellowship in foot and ankle surgery, visiting many parts of the United States.
Hari sees patients from many parts of the United Kingdom and other countries and has a large tertiary referral practice both on the NHS and in his private practice for complex foot and ankle problems, failed foot and ankle surgical patients and those who want a second opinion on their foot and ankle problems. He is the honorary foot and ankle surgeon for the Newport Gwent Dragons and also consults/operates on professionals in rugby, football, cricket, athletics, racket sports, and professional dancers from many parts of the country. He is the honorary medical director for Newport County Football Club, and the Newport Cricket Club.
Hari been a consultant since 1994 and is based at the Royal Gwent Hospital Newport South Wales, a sub regional specialist Centre, and has recently established the Foot and Ankle Centre at the state-of-the-art Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Hospital with his colleagues. This unit enjoys easy road access, excellent facilities and offers cutting edge foot and ankle technology to complement an exciting team offering foot and ankle surgery to the entire county.
Hari's private patients are seen and operated on at St Joseph’s Private Hospital in Newport. He also has private clinics at the Cyncoed Consulting Rooms and operates at the Spire Hospital in Cardiff.
Hari is a past president of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS) one of the larger orthopaedic subspecialist societies representing foot and ankle surgeons in the entire country. He was a member of the Wales Orthopaedic Surgical training programme and is a clinical teacher at The University of Wales, College of Medicine. He is a national teacher for the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. He is also a visiting member of faculty for the University of Dundee on their Mch (Orth) programme. He has been a specialist adviser for MTP joint replacement with The National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
He also featured as the lead foot and ankle surgeon in a highly acclaimed BBC 4 production feature entitled: Dissected: The Incredible Human Foot.
Mr Hariharan has extensive research interests with a large portfolio of presentations to distinguished foot and ankle audiences. His main research interests are foot biomechanics, arthroscopic foot and ankle surgery and foot and ankle trauma. He has spoken at numerous international conferences and is an invited speaker to many national and international centres for the last 15 years. He has pioneered many techniques and has brought many ‘firsts’ in orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery to Wales.
Key publications
Hindfoot Arthritis Review: Current Othopaedics 2011 Paul Hodgson, K.Hariharan
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, HariharanK.
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. Foot and Ankle A. Sloan, R. Ramaswamy, K. Hariharan
Manual of AO trauma 2019
Kulkarni’s textbook of Orthopaedic surgery
Naughton Dunn Oration awarded by the British Orthopaedic Association
Ram Janam Sulakshana Pandey Oration awarded by the Indian Foot And Ankle Society
Rowland Hughes Oration awarded by the Welsh Orthopaedic Society
Kartik Hariharan is a member of the following professional associations and organisations...
Mr Hariharan offers expert assessment and treatment for a comprehensive range of problems affecting the foot and ankle, including ankle sprains, ligament damage, fractures, stress injuries, arthritis and Chacot joint disease.
St Joseph`s Hospita
St. Josephs Private Hospital
Harding Avenue
Newport
South Wales
NP20 6ZE
Main phone: | 01633 820300 | |
Call for appointments: | 01633 820300 | |
Secretary: | 01633 861888 | |
Main email: | footsecretary@googlemail.com |
Royal Gwent Hospital
Newport
Gwent
NP20 2UB
Main phone: | 01633 238915 |
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