Mr Samuel Rajaratnam

 Mr. Sam Rajaratnam FRCS (Tr. & Orth.) is an internationally renowned Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon particularly specialising in knee replacement surgery and sporting injuries of the knee. 

Mr Rajaratnam practices exclusively at the Cleveland Clinic, London - the leading and award winning private hospital in Belgravia . 

Sam has personally performed over 9000 knee replacements (approximately 600 Partial, Total, Robotic and Revision Knee Replacements each year) with excellent outcomes and has pioneered rapid recovery and lower post operative pain following knee surgery. 

He has developed an expert multidisciplinary team with Anaesthetist Dr. Barry Phillips to deliver excellent care and the latest pain-relieving techniques after Joint Replacement Surgery. 

He also has one of the Lowest Revision (failure) rates and best outcomes after knee replacements on the U.K. National Joint Registry and is a huge advocate for transparent outcome measure-driven healthcare. 

He is an expert on Robotic assisted Knee replacement and was the first to implement ROSA robotic technology in the U.K. within the private sector. 

Sam also regularly treats numerous Professional and Amateur sportsmen with soft tissue injuries to their knee and has performed over 3000 ACL reconstructions and performs many other soft tissue knee procedures each year as Day case procedures. 

He regularly treats high profile individuals and elite professional sportsmen and sportswomen including footballers, rugby players and boxers and is on the faculty of the FIFA Football Medicine conference each year. 

Mr Rajaratnam originally trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital in London and qualified with a First Class degree in anatomy and an MBBS in 1997. 

He trained via the Royal College of Surgeons, England at numerous centres of excellence in the U.K. and then Australia. 

Sam was awarded the “Walter Mercer Gold Medal” for his best performance throughout Great Britain and Ireland in the final FRCS Orthopaedics examination in 2006. 

He was the British Orthopaedic Association Ambassador to Hong Kong in 2007 and worked in Sydney Australia at some of the world’s best knee injury units before being appointed Consultant Surgeon in the U.K. in 2008 and now enjoys an excellent international reputation as a leading knee surgeon and a key opinion leader in his field.  

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