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Mr Makaram Srinivasan

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

MBBS, MS (Orth), DNB (Orth), FRCS, M.Ch (Orth)

Practises at: The Highfield Hospital, The Beardwood Hospital, The Lancaster Hospital

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Personal profile

Mr Makaram Srinivasan is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in sports and upper limb surgery, including diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. He is actively involved in teaching and is an Honorary Lecturer for medical students at Manchester University, Edge Hill University and University of Central Lancashire. He has been on AO Faculty for fractures and injuries to long bones, wrist and hand, since 2001.

Mr Srinivasan began his orthopaedic surgery practice in East Lancashire in 1996 after completing a fellowship in Upper Limb, Hand and Wrist at Wrightington Hospital. He won the Ethicon fellowship, the travelling fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons and the AO advanced fellowship to the US, where he trained under world-renowned surgeons in Tampa, Florida at Harvard University, The Barnes and Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Loma Linda University, LA and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Mr Srinivasan joined Blackburn Royal Infirmary as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in 1996. He established the Upper Limb Service Centre at the Royal Blackburn Hospital in 1998. He is a designated trainer of arthroscopic shoulder, elbow and hand surgery, has been an examiner of the Intercollegiate Board of Examiners for Royal College of Surgeons in FRCS (Tr & Orth) from 2006 for Intercollegiate MRCS, and also been an overseas examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons since 2001. Mr Srinivasan served as a Clinical Director of Orthopaedics from 2004-2007 for Blackburn Royal Infirmary and was the President for the Indian Orthopaedic Association (UK) from 2004-2007.

He graduated from Bangalore Medical College and received his MS (Orth) in Orthopaedics in 1982, where he also completed his orthopaedic surgery residency. He received his fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow). He further specialised in orthopaedics in the Manchester rotation and received his fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery from the Intercollegiate Board of Trauma and Orthopaedics in Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1996.

Clinical interests

  • Upper limb surgery
  • Hand surgery
  • Shoulder and elbow surgery
  • Sports injury surgery
  • Reconstructive surgery

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the FFST (Fellow of The Faculty of Surgical Trainers) in RCS Edinburgh
  • Elected Assessor of Examiners in the Intercollegiate Board of Examinations for the FRCS(T&O)
  • Examiner at the JCIE (Joint Colleges Intercollegiate Board of Examinations)
  • Examiner in the JSCFE (Joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examinations) in RCS England
  • Full Member BSSH (British Society of Surgery of the Hand)
  • Full Member BESS (British Elbow & Shoulder Society)
  • Full Member BOA (British Orthopaedic Association)
  • Full Member of AAOS (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
  • Full member of SICOT ( The Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie)
  • Full Member of EFORT (The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology)
  • Full Member of ISKSAA. (International Society for Knowledge for Surgeons on Arthroscopy & Arthroplasty)
  • Full Member of KOA & IOA (Karnataka Orthopaedic Association & Indian Orthopaedic Association)
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