Mr Kash Akhtar

Mr Kash Akhtar is a distinguished consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in London who specialises in knee surgery. His areas of expertise include ACL reconstruction, knee arthritis, knee fracture, musculoskeletal injury, meniscal repair, sports injuries, knee arthroscopy, cartilage injuries, and realignment surgery. With over 20 years’ experience, Mr Akhtar adopts a patient-centred philosophy in his clinical practice.

Mr Akhtar consults privately at Cleveland Clinic London Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre, and Cleveland Clinic Moorgate Outpatient Centre. He also practises for Barats Health NHS Trust, one of the busiest in the country, and holds an honorary senior fellow position at the University of Melbourne. Furthermore, Mr Akhtar is a member of the executive committee for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee.

Mr Akhtar originally qualified from Imperial College London with an MBBS and an intercalated BSc in Exercise Physiology, followed by an MD in 2012. He undertook his higher specialist training on the North West Thames rotation, before completing a subspecialty fellowship in knee surgery at the prestigious Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.

Notably, Mr Akhtar went on to receive the illustrious Winston Churchill fellowship, which allowed him to spend six months at international centres for orthopaedic excellence in the USA. He holds a Master’s in Education and is an esteemed fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Society of Arts.

In medical education, Mr Akhtar is a reader in orthopaedic surgery and surgical education at Queen Mary University London, and the course director for the MSc in Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences. Since 2017, he also oversees surgical training as the programme director for the Royal London Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Rotation under Health Education England.