Chinmay M. Gupte BMBCh, MRCS, FRCS, PhD

Chinmay is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in the knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals. His main interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of sports knee injuries and knee arthritis, together with trauma and fracture surgery. He performs both arthroscopic (keyhole) and open procedures. Prior to his appointment at Imperial, he worked at consultant level at Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital and was a senior fellow for knee and sports surgeons Mr John Bartlett and Mr Hayden Morris in Olympic Park and Warringal Hospital, Melbourne.

Chinmay is also President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the prestigious British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 20 papers on this and other topics which include shoulder and ankle surgery, tuberculosis, and training the surgeons of the future.

He continues his research as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, with particular emphasis in meniscal surgery and knee ligament reconstruction, and also in arthroscopic simulator training, with the aspiration of improving outcomes in patients with knee problems. He also lectures students at Imperial and helps chair a research link between Imperial College and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).