A B O U T M R K U L K A R N I
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon in Leicester, UK
Specialist in Hand & Wrist Surgery
B A C K G R O U N D
I am a substantive Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic surgeon based at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. UHL is one of the largest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country.
I received my medical degree from the University of Oxford and have since completed my surgical training across the Oxford, London, and Midlands training regions.
I am fellowship trained, having completed a post-CCT 'Senior Clinical Hand Fellow' post at the internationally renowned Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby. I have also undertaken a competitively awarded 'British Orthopaedic Association Travelling Fellowship' to Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, India - one of the world's leading Ortho-Plastic surgical centres.
I am one of only a select few Hand & Wrist surgeons in the UK that is dual certified with both, the British and European Diplomas in Hand Surgery.
I am an approved tutor for the British Hand Diploma and also sit on the Communications Committee of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH).
Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S
BMBCh
MA (Oxon)
MSc
FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics)
FEBHS - European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma
Dip Hand Surg (Br) - British Diploma in Hand Surgery
M E M B E R S H I P S
British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH)
Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM)
P R O F E S S I O N A L
R E G I S T R A T I O N S
General Medical Council
(Specialist Register)