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About Karam Al-Tawil
Personal Profile
Mr Karam Al-Tawil, consultant upper limb surgeon has a well-established and very busy NHS practice based at Queens and King George Hospitals in London (Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust). He specialises in all aspects of upper limb surgery - hand & wrist, elbow, and shoulder. This includes soft tissue and bony work, arthroscopic (key-hole) surgery, sports conditions, and joint replacement surgery.
This surgeon completed orthopaedic training in the prestigious Cambridge rotation, spending his final year at Addenbrookes Hospital (Cambridge) upper limb unit, and subsequently completed 2 post-CCT training fellowships at the world renowned Kings College Hospital London Major Trauma Centre further specialising in both hand & wrist and shoulder & elbow surgery.
Mr Al-Tawil strives for excellence throughout his career. His undergraduate medical training was at St Georges University of London, achieving a distinction and multiple prizes for academic excellence. Mr Al-Tawil completed his foundation and core training years in and around London. He is a avid trainer with clinical and educational supervision training roles. Mr Al-Tawil is a reviewer for several orthopaedic journals and has multiple publications. He has a formal teaching qualification; PGCert in healthcare and biomedical education, and hold a clinical lecturer role at Anglia Ruskin Medical School.
Mr Al-Tawil is a surgical consultant contact for hand therapy (runs a weekly meeting for complex cases), co-runs the upper limb weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting, and co-organises the monthly regional complex hand clinic (spanning 5 hospitals in London and Essex). He is well organised and represent the department on the trauma governance meetings and recruitment committees. Mr Al-Tawil has set up guidelines and protocols to simplify, standardise, and improve the standard of care.
Clinical Interests
Mr Al-Tawil specialises in shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist surgery.
- Joint replacement (shoulder, thumb base, fingers)
- Key hole surgery "arthroscopy" (shoulder, elbow, wrist)
- Carpal Tunnel
- Cubital Tunnel Surgery
- Rotator cuff, instability, frozen shoulder, AC joint, and bursitis
- Wrist and Hand arthritis
- Trapeziectomy
- Dupuytrens
- Ganglions
- Trigger finger
- Osteotomy
- Fusions
- Scapho-Lunate
- Distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ)
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC)
- Scaphoid
- Sports conditions (tennis and golfers elbow, shoulder impingement, De Quervain)
- Trauma (clavicle, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, biceps)
- Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand pain
- Joint injections
Professional Memberships
- BSSH (British Society for Surgery of the Hand)
- BESS (British Elbow and Shoulder Society)
- MPS (Medical Protection Society)
- RCS England (Royal College of Surgeons)
