Mr Dinesh Nathwani

Biography

Mr Dinesh Nathwani is a Consultant & Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer of Orthopaedics at Cleveland Clinic London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He has over 30 years of orthopaedic surgical experience. His current speciality interest is adult knee reconstructive surgery. He has an expertise in technology assisted knee surgery and has used computers and robotics for all his partial and total knee replacements since being appointed as a substantive Knee Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare in 2004. This was following a fellowship year in Australia where he learnt techniques in computer navigation, sports knee injuries, ACL and other complex ligament reconstruction together with arthroscopic meniscus repair and resection. He is currently involved in trials for novel cartilage resurfacing implants such as the Biopoly chondral resurfacing system for knees-where he was the first surgeon in the world to implant this novel prosthesis for cartilage defects as part of a multi-centre NIHR UK trial in 2012. Currently, he is leading trials of robot assisted knee replacements at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Mr Nathwani is the current President of CAOS UK (Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery UK) and is an orthopaedic research advisor for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics at Imperial College. He is one of the key European and global opinion leaders in robotic knee surgery, acting as a senior advisor in development of the software and hardware platforms currently in use globally. He reviews for several orthopaedic journals including the British Bone & Joint Journal, American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Knee and Injury. Any remaining spare time is spent with his family often in the mountains either skiing or trekking. He also enjoys playing golf & tennis.