Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
King's College Hospital, London
Bromley, England
Prof. Venu Kavarthapu was appointed as an orthopaedic consultant at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust in London, UK, in 2006. He is the orthopaedic lead of the King’s Multi-disciplinary Diabetic Foot Unit, and has set-up the largest functional limb salvage and Charcot foot reconstruction servicein the UK. He also established the ‘Multidisciplinary and Surgical Reconstruction of Charcot Foot Symposium' and ‘King’s Charcot Foot Reconstruction Cadaver Workshop’ course in London. The Diabetic Foot Reconstruction Fellowship that is offered in his unit is popular among the foot and ankle trained surgeons in the UK and abroad. His clinical research interest is on Charcot foot and infection clearance surgery of the diabetic foot. He has published extensively on diabetic foot surgery and authored several book chapters on this subject. His other responsibilities include honorary senior lecturer at King's College London, associate editor of Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, member of British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Education Committee, Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the immediate past president of International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons.
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Friday, April 28, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Friday, April 28, 2023
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM