The Hand Practice
Specialist hand and wrist surgery clinic in Berkshire, UK

Mr Zulfi Rahimtoola FRCS PhD
Consultant Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon

• Member of:

  • BSSH (British Hand Society)
  • ERASS (European Rheumatism Arthritis Surgical Society)
  • EWAS (European Wrist Arthroscopy Society)
  • ISSH (Indian Hand Society)

   
  Zulfi Rahimtoola is a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon working at the Royal Berkshire and Battle NHS Foundation Trust in Reading and Newbury. Private consultation is offered at Spire Dunedin Hospital in Reading. He offers consultation in English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Urdu.

  Academic Background:

  He started the study of Medicine at the University of Bristol and through the Erasmus European exchange program he qualified as a Medical Doctor at the University of Leiden in 1996. The year after he spent as a Research Fellow at Stanford University, California.

  In 1998 he commenced his specialist registrar training in the Netherlands. During his training he developed a keen interest in hand and wrist surgery and combined his clinical work with academic research on the treatment of arthritic disorders of the wrist. He published various papers and was invited to present and lecture in different centres throughout Europe. His research resulted in a PhD thesis on surgery of the wrist in rheumatoid arthritis which he successfully completed in 2005. Part of his work received the annual Dutch registrar prize.

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• Professional experience:

  After qualifying as an Orthopaedic Surgeon he worked in 4 different international centres of excellence in hand surgery in Barcelona, Paris, Derby and Wrightington. Through his academic research and extensive postgraduate fellowship training he has become an Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon with a comprehensive understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic conditions affecting the hand and wrist. He continues to maintain acadmic links Internationally and has recently become an honorary consultant at Leiden University.

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