Mr Mukesh Hemmady
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Lower Limb Joint Replacement Surgery Specialist
DEPARTMENT:
Lower Limb Consultants (Hip, Knee, Ankle and Foot)
SPECIALITY AREAS:
Primary and Revision Surgery of the Hip
Primary and Revision Surgery of the Knee
Arthroscopic Surgery of the Knee
CONTACT DETAILS:
Secretary: 01257 256526
CLINICAL ACCESS TIMES:
Mondays 1300-1700 Wrightington
Wednesdays 1300-1700 RAEI, Wigan (Fracture Clinic)
Qualifications: MBBS MS FRCS (Trauma and Orth.)
Mr Hemmady qualified from the University of Bombay in India and passed the MS in Orthopaedics in 1992. He holds a full time Orthopaedic Consultant post at the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust.
During his training he has worked in the joint replacement units at Cardiff, Oswestry and Wrightington and passed the FRCS (Tr. &Orth.) examination in Feb 2003. He did the lower limb arthroplasty fellowship at Wrightington where he gained extensive experience in primary and revision hip and knee replacements. He was appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at this trust in 2004. He specialises in primary and revision joint replacements of the hip and knee and also performs arthroscopic surgeries of the knee at Wrightington and trauma surgery at Wigan. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious American travelling fellowship of the British Hip Society to visit centres of excellence in the USA and Canada.
He has published extensively on various subjects in orthopaedics and has a large number of publications in peer reviewed journals. His research interests include total hip replacements in dysplastic hips, long term outcome of different prostheses and comparing the results of replacements performed through different surgical approaches to the hip.
Mr Hemmady is a keen teacher and organises the teaching programme for the lower limb unit at Wrightington and is on the faculty of the MCh (Orth.) course at Wrightington.