Mr Nikhil A Shah Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon

NHS Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Salford Royal Hospitals (Major Trauma centre), Manchester University Hospitals, Central Manchester Children’s hospital, Alder Hey Children’s hospital Liverpool for delivering pelvic-acetabular trauma service. (Honorary)

Qualifications FRCS (Tr & Orth) Mercer Medal MCh (Orth) Liverpool FRCS (Glasg) MS (Orth) India DNB (Orth) MB BS (Hons) Pune, India

Awards Ranawat Rothman American hip society travelling fellowship 2014 BOA- Zimmer Travelling fellowship 2005 Young Ambassador of the British Orthopaedic association 2004 Walter Mercer medal for FRCS (Orth) exam 2003 Edward Burton Memorial Prize FRCS (Orth) 2003 The John Charnley prize 2002

Special Interest Pelvic & Acetabular Fractures, Hip and Knee replacements, Revision arthroplasty, Periprosthetic fractures.

NHS Practice I provide the regional tertiary pelvic- acetabular trauma service in more than one major trauma centres and children’s hospitals. My elective special interest is in primary and revision hip and knee joint replacements, long bone and joint articular fractures, and knee arthroscopy. My workload consists of specialised and general trauma of lower and upper limb, periprosthetic fractures around joint replacements, and soft tissue injuries arising from accidents, falls and other mechanisms.

Orthopaedic Training North West Orthopaedic Training programme, Fellowships- Wrightington hospital, O&A Institute, Toronto, Canada.

Medicolegal Practice I provide personal injury reports on injuries arising from RTA, trips, slips, falls, major trauma, lower limb and pelvic fractures and common upper limb fractures (wrist, hip, tibia, ankle, scaphoid, shoulder, etc), general orthopaedic trauma, soft tissue neck and back injuries (whiplash), soft tissue & ligament injuries of knee, ankle & periprosthetic fractures.

The clinical negligence reports are concentrated on problems surrounding the diagnosis and management of hip and knee joint replacement surgery and trauma (including pelvic trauma) within my area of expertise.

Workload Claimant / defendant/ single joint expert 45:45:10 approximately

Teaching Faculty Several National and International courses including A0-ASIF (UK) Faculty on lectures and workshops abroad.

Memberships British Orthopaedic Association, British Hip Society, APAS- Association of Pelvic Acetabular Surgeons of India

Medico-legal Training Regular updated medicolegal training annually

Nikhil Shah Limited Registered Office: c/o Sandison Easson & Co, Rex Buildings, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 1HY (Company Number: 10107447) Page 1

2018 - Bond Solon- Excellence in report Writing, written evidence. Faculty on medicolegal courses Medico-legal Experts certificate- (Inns of Court School of Law, City University, London, & In Practice Training) Medico-legal report writing (core skills) Professional Solutions

Regulation & Indemnity GMC- 5185583 MDU- 390977 A

Languages English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Basic German

Key Publications Book chapter - “The evidence of hip resurfacing”. Nikhil Shah, M Porter. “Evidence based orthopaedics” TFM publication 2006. Chapter 17

Review Article- Nikhil Shah, M Porter. The Evolution of Cemented Stems. Orthopaedics. Aug 2005, Vol 28, No. 8, SUPP, p- 1 to 7.

Original paper A Kumar, N Shah et al. Operative management of acetabular fractures A review of 73 fractures Injury 36;5(2005)605-612.

Several book chapters and recent publications. More details available on request. Reviewer for many scientific journals.