Clinical interests
Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, Knee Arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction. General Orthopaedics
Personal profile
Mr Thakur is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon with particular interest in hip and knee surgery and sports medicine. He qualified from Osmania University in 1985 and underwent further orthopaedic training in India, graduating with a Masters in Orthopaedics in 1990. In 1993, he moved to the UK and underwent specialist training in orthopaedics and trauma in the Guys and St Thomas' Rotation. The circuit involved training in various hospitals in Kent, Surrey and central London.
In 2009-10, he spent a year in the fellowship programme in adult reconstruction at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York, USA, where he learnt specialist techniques.
He worked as a locum consultant for five years in the NHS at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Mr Thakur holds a substantive post as Associate Specialist, Trauma and Orthopaedics at the William Harvey.
He specialises mainly in disorders of the hip and the knee including Arthroscopic knee surgery - particularly meniscal repair and Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction - and Arthroplasty of the hip and knee including unicompartmental knee replacement.