Mr Raj R Thakrar

Mr Raj Thakrar is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee surgery and sports injuries, currently seeing private patients at One Hatfield Hospital and Ramsay Pinehill Hospital.

Mr Thakrar completed his medical degree, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Physiology & Pharmacology, at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School in 2006. After completion of specialty training in the West Midlands in 2017, completed further subspecialty knee fellowship training at the Academic Lower limb Reconstruction Unit at University College London Hospital and the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health. He later completed his second fellowship, focusing on periarticular knee osteotomy surgery and knee ligament reconstruction at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital.

Mr Thakrar's NHS practise is based at The Lister Hospital where he supervises trainees and treats all aspects of adult and paediatric knee pathology together with general trauma. His has specific interests in young adult knee surgery, realignment osteotomy surgery, arthroscopic knee ligament reconstruction, cartilage surgery, and unicompartmental, primary and complex knee arthroplasty surgery.

Alongside his clinical work, Mr Thakrar is committed to medical research and practising evidence-based medicine. He has received several research grants, published multiple papers in peer reviewed journals, authored book chapters and presented at both national and international scientific meetings. He also reviews articles for a number of orthopaedic journals, including The Bone and Joint Journal.

In addition to his research, Mr Thakrar is an experienced teacher at both undergraduate and international lectures. He is invited faculty on the International Basingstoke Osteotomy Masterclass together with the Royal College of Surgeons of England CCrISP Course.