Dinesh Nathwani graduated from Sheffield University Medical School in 1991.

His basic and higher surgical training was in the North West Mersey Rotation. He was appointed as Consultant & Hon Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2004.

He has 17 years of surgical experience; 10 years of which include trauma and knee replacement surgery.

He is a fellowship trained knee surgeon having completed a Computer Assisted Surgery Fellowship in Perth, Western Australia in 2005. Following this he also completed a fellowship in knee ligament reconstruction and unicompartmental knee replacement in Sydney, Australia.

His area of special interest is in knee reconstruction both acute soft tissue and bone conserving arthroplasty using Computer Navigated Surgery.

He is also a member of the Orthoplastic Trauma Reconstruction primary and tertiary referral service at Charing Cross Hospital with 4 years of experience in Complex Lower Limb Trauma Reconstruction utilizing Circular External fixation methods.

Since returning from his fellowships he has continued developing the techniques of knee reconstruction using Computer Aided techniques and has performed all of his knee replacements using the technology. He is on development panels for continuing to develop the growing technology and this is his main area of research.

He is a faculty member on several national and international knee and trauma reconstruction courses teaching to surgeons of all grades. He is a member of the British Association of Surgeons of the Knee, the British Orthopaedic Association and the 2020 Knee Group. He is one of the Co-Founders of Precision Surgery Orthopaedic Group.

Mr Nathwani has a specialist interest in computer navigated surgery. His areas of expertise include NAVIO handheld robotic knee surgery system. He has has pioneered the use of navigation techniques and implant design and total knee replacements in the UK.

• Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
  Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust