Personal Profile
Mr Shetty became an expert in hip and knee surgery after obtaining fellowships from internationally acclaimed tertiary referral hospitals including the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, London and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He initially did his Masters In Surgery and Diplomate of the National Board in Orthopaedics in 1996. He was awarded the MCh degree in Orthopaedics in 2002 at the University of Liverpool based on his thesis on PCR analysis of synovial fluid obtained from failed hip and knee replacements. He was also awarded Fellowship status in Trauma & Orthopaedics ( FRCS -Ortho) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He secured the first rank in his MS Orthopaedic exams and was awarded the “Best Resident Doctor” during his training years.
Alongside his clinical work, Mr Shetty is also an Associate Professor at St Georges Medical School. He is passionate about teaching and training the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons and is an educational supervisor to a number of junior trainees. He has received Clinical Excellence awards in the NHS and is one of the Senior Orthopaedic Consultants at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
He works with a multidisciplinary team which includes trained surgical assistants , nurses , physiotherapists , musculoskeletal radiologist and an efficient administrative team .He hence has excellent outcomes and results on the National Joint Register. He is great believer in a “Patient First” approach to medicine and a strong proponent of enhanced recovery programmes in hip and knee surgery. He is happy to see both self pay and all insured patients by prior appointment.
Given the current pressures in primary care, he does not insist on a GP referral.
Mr Shetty strives to deliver the highest standards of patient care, as evidenced on I Want Great Care and Doctify websites and he takes great care to get to know his patients and to provide a friendly, personalised service based on each person’s individual circumstances and requirements.
Doctify.com - 'Going into an experience like this, is blind, you have no real idea what to expect, but it makes it so much easier to deal with when the person carrying out the procedure gives you the confidence of making the operation more like a walk in the park'.
