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Website- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Not in Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Knee
- Sports
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Mr Rahul Patel is a fellowship trained knee surgeon specialising in all aspects of knee surgery including replacement.
He cares for elite and amateur athletes in a range of sports and over a range of ages. He has professional sport affiliations in international cricket, (BCCI), rugby and football. He is an international educator, faculty member, invited lecturer and surgical skills trainer in sports reconstructive knee arthroscopy. His specialist areas of interest are cruciate ligament injuries and meniscal preservation and transplantation.
Mr Patel is a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University College Hospital, London and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. He is actively involved in the training of higher surgical trainees on the London orthopaedic rotations and is also a co-developer and course tutor on the MSc in Sports Medicine, Exercise & Health at University College London. He is also a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine, Orthopaedic section, and currently is an executive committee member of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
He was the medical director of MyRecovery, a digital health app for the surgical patient, which was acquired in 2019 by an US health provider and is still available to UK patients.
His professional affiliations are: The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon (AAOS), Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS).
Rahul Patel qualified from The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. He trained in surgery at various London teaching hospitals before undertaking a formal two-year research period culminating in a higher degree from the University of London. His specialist orthopaedic training was on the Middlesex/University College Hospital, London rotation. Mr Patel then undertook subspecialist fellowship training in reconstructive arthroscopy and sports orthopaedic surgery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic, Vail, USA as well as the Mayo Clinic, USA.
Areas of Expertise
Sports/soft tissue injuries of knee � ACL, PCL, multi-ligament injuries, meniscal tears, (repair/preservation), cartilage injury
Joint preservation � meniscal transplantation, cartilage regeneration, osteotomy of the knee
Patello-femoral disorders �instability correction, pain syndromes
Knee joint replacement � MAKO robotic arm assisted knee replacement
Areas of interest
Sports injuries knee, anterior cruciate ligament (adult and paediatric) injuries, ACL reconstruction, PCL reconstruction, meniscal injuries, meniscal repair, meniscal augmentation, meniscal transplant, multi-ligament knee reconstruction, patellofemoral instability, trochleoplasty, MPFL reconstruction, cartilage injuries knee and hip, cartilage transplant, hip arthroscopy, femoroacetabular impingement, hip and groin sports injuries, robotic knee replacement, robotic unicompartmental knee replacement
Medical secretaries
- Lamia Housni
- Fortius Clinic London 66 Wigmore Street London W1U 2SB
- 020 3958 2714
- sec@rahulpatel.net
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Colin Hamilton-Davies
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Warwick Marchant
Not Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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W7420
Autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction without lateral tendonesis +/- meniscectomy - (1-5)
Cromwell Hospital (1-5)
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W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - (1-5)
Cromwell Hospital (1-5)
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W7530
Repair of lateral collateral ligament complex - (1-5)
Cromwell Hospital (1-5)
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W8240
Meniscal allograft transplantation - (1-5)
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W8230
Arthroscopic meniscal repair - (1-5)
Cromwell Hospital (1-5)
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