Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
Professional Profile:
Mr Rajiv Limaye is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma
Surgeon with over 20 years of surgical experience. Mr Limaye's practice is
specialised in dealing in disorders of foot and ankle.
He undertakes routine knee arthroscopy, meniscal surgery and soft tissue
reconstruction. Mr Limaye undertakes entire range of foot and ankle surgery including
arthroscopic sports injuries. He regularly treats sports enthusiasts to return
to their highest level of activities. His special interest includes bunion
surgery using MIS surgery. He has also developed a unit with a multi–centre
study on joint replacements of the big toe.
Mr Limaye works and acts as an examiner for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons
of England and Edinburgh. He supervises trainees and has been a faculty member
at various international courses and symposia.
Special Clinical Interest:
Arthroscopy- ankle and knee;
Knee surgery- soft tissue and
arthroscopy;
Foot surgery- bunion, arthritis, joint
replacement;
Ankle surgery- sport injury;
Sports injuries of knee and ankle;
MIS bunion surgery;
Mortons neuroma;
Toe nail surgery;
Midfoot fusion;
Foot and ankle injections;
Gait analysis
Medical Qualifications:
·
MS (Orth) - 1993- B J Medical school
and Sassoon Hospitals, Pune, India
·
MSc (Trauma surgery) - 1999
-University of Birmingham, UK
·
MCh (Orth) - 2000- University of
Dundee, Scotland, UK
·
FRCS (General) - 2005- The Royal
College of Surgeons of England, London, UK
·
FRCS (Orth) - 2005- The Royal College
of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland and England, UK
·
Trauma Fellowship - 2005 (AO
International- Switzerland)
Consultant (NHS)- Lead Consultant, Division of Foot and Ankle surgery- University Hospital of North Tees and Hartlepool, UK
Consultant (Private and NHS) - Foot/Ankle/Knee surgery- BMI Woodlands Hospital Darlington and Nuffield Health Tees Hospital, Stockton on Tees
Current Academic
Positions:
·
Examiner MRCS, The Royal College of
Surgeons of England- From January 2012
·
Examiner - FRCS (Orth),
Intercollegiate Boards in Trauma and Orthopaedics, The Royal College of
Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK- From March 2011
·
Honorary Clinical lecturer-
University of Teesside, UK, From March 2011
·
Faculty - Basic science courses and
Mock examinations for FRCS Orth, Oswestry, Wrightington and Northern Deanery,
Newcastle, UK - from early 2009 and on going
·
Examiner - Final year medical
students, University of Newcastle- from 2010
Membership of
Societies:
·
General Medical Council - Full
Membership
·
The Royal College of Surgeons of
England : Fellowship
·
Specialist Register In Trauma and
Orthopaedic Surgery in the UK
·
British Foot and Ankle Society
·
Medical defence Union
·
Yorkshire foot and ankle society
·
Northern Orthopaedics foot and ankle
surgery society
·
Sub-Specialty Training in foot and
ankle surgery
·
Basic Foot/Ankle surgery - Mr's
Sarkar and Belham - Luton Hospital and Watford Hospital, UK
·
Hindfoot surgery and Total Ankle
replacements - Prof Hintermann, Liestal, Switzerland
·
Forefoot Surgery - Prof Coillard,
Lyon, France
·
Arthroscopic sports injury surgery -
Prof Nick van Dijk, Amsterdam, Holland
·
Minimally invasive foot/ankle
surgery - Prof De Prada, Murcia, Spain
·
Additional top up training - Various
centres in the USA - Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
Advanced
Training in Foot and Ankle surgery:
· Primary Foot/Ankle surgery- Mr's Sarkar and Belham- Luton Hospital and Watford Hospital, UK
·
Hindfoot surgery and Total Ankle
replacements- Prof Hintermann, Liestal, Switzerland
·
Minimal access Forefoot Surgery-
Prof Coillard, Lyon, France
·
Arthroscopic sports injury surgery-
Prof Nick van Dijk, Amsterdam, Holland
·
Minimally invasive foot/ankle
surgery- Prof De Prada, Murcia, Spain
·
Additional top up training- Various
centres in the USA- Washington DC, New Jersey, Dallas and Chicago
Mr
Rajiv Limaye's accolades - 2013
January 2013- Mr R Limaye was invited as a moderator at Indo-USA Foot and ankle meet, Kolkata, India
February
2013- Visitation to St Carlos Hospital, Murcia to share experience with Dr M De
Prada in minimally invasive forefoot surgery
March
2013- Attended the American academy of Orthopaedic surgeons annual meeting in
Chicago, USA
April
2013- Mr R Limaye was invited at basic sciences and mock FRCS Orth Examination
at Wrightington Hospital, Wigan
May 2013-
Mr R Limaye attended the MRCS examinations at Royal College of Surgeons of
England, London
June 2013-
Mr R Limaye visited 2 centres of excellence for foot/ankle surgery in
Washington DC and New Jersey, USA
June 2013-
Attended the hindfoot surgery course in Liestal, Switzerland
September
and early October 2013- Mr R Limaye visited Baylor Medical institute, Dallas to
share his experience with Dr J Brodsky.
December
2013- Mr R Limaye attended MRCS clinical exam at Nairobi, Kenya
Invitations for 2014
January 2014- Mr R Limaye was invited as a faculty in the Indo- USA foot and ankle meeting in Jaipur, India
March
2014- MRCS examinations, Sharjah, UAE and Cairo, Egypt
May 2014-
MRCS examinations, Sheffield, England
August
2014- Faculty position at the Trauma Con conference in Mumbai- unable to attend
August
2014- Faculty position at IFAScon (Indian foot and ankle society) meeting at
Pune, India- unable to attend
October
2014- MRCS exams, Royal College of surgeons, London
November
2014- Total ankle replacement, New York
November
2014- Visited Pittsburgh to share results of first MTP replacement with Dr Carl
Hassleman
December
2014- Visit to France on a forefoot course
Invitations for 2015
March 2015- Foot and ankle course for residents- India
May 2015-
MRCS examinations, London, UK
July 2015-
First MTP joint replacement course, Faculty- Liverpool, UK
October
2015- MRCS examination- Cyprus and Cairo, Egypt
25,26, 27
October 2015- Invited as a speaker in Orthopaedic conference in Baltimore
November
2015- British foot and ankle surgery meeting - London, UK
November
2015- MRCS examination Colombo, Sri Lanka
Invitations for 2016
Foot and Ankle symposium- Hartlepool
April-
Combined orthopaedic association meeting in Cape Town (Papers)
May- World
podiatry association meeting in Montreal, Canada (Paper)
June- MIS
foot/ Ankle surgery- Barcelona, Spain
September-
MRCS exam in Hyderabad and KL, Malaysia
November-
MRCS exam in Cyprus and Egypt
December-
Visitation planned in USA
Browse Rajiv’s publications in national and International journals by visiting - Researchgate/ rajiv limaye.