Udai Prakash

Udai Prakash MB BS, FRCS(Eng & Ed), FRCS(Tr & Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UHCW NHS Trust

Contact details:

NHS
Telephone: +44 24 7696 5091
Email: Kathy O'Malley

Warwickshire Hip and Knee Clinic (WHKC)
Telephone: +44 24 7661 2681
Email : info@warwickshireclinics.co.uk
Website: www.whkc.co.uk


Contact address:

Department of Orthopaedics
University Hospital
Clifford Bridge Road
Walsgrave
Coventry CV2 2DX

Professional profile:

  • Basic Surgical Training, Edinburgh, 1993 – 1996
  • Specialist Trauma and Orthopaedic Training, Dundee and Inverness, 1996 – 2002
  • Fellowship in Lower Limb Joint Replacement and Arthroscopy, Adelaide, Australia 2001 – 2002
  • Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, 2002
  • Member of the British Orthopaedic Association
  • Development group, Cormet resurfacing system, Corin Ltd, UK
  • Regular faculty at various national and international orthopaedic meetings
  • Private practice based at BMI, The Meriden Hospital and Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital, Leamington Spa
  • Joint partner Warwickshire Hip and Knee Clinic

Clinical interests:

  • Primary hip and knee replacement
  • Revision hip and knee replacement
  • Hip resurfacing
  • Minihip replacement
  • Young adult hip pain
  • Unicompartmental (partial) knee replacement
  • Patello-femoral replacement
  • Knee arthroscopy
  • Trauma surgery

Current Research:

  • Prospective follow up of patients undergoing hip resurfacing surgery through the Ganz trochanteric flip osteotomy.
  • Patello-femoral arthroplasty trial

Teaching responsibilities:

  • Tutor, 4th Overseas Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Course, Hyderabad, India 2002
  • Tutor, External Fixator Course, Coventry, 2003, 2004
  • Tutor, Primary Hip Arthroplasty Course, University of Dundee, 2003, 2004
  • Tutor, Primary Knee Arthroplasty Course, University of Dundee, 2004
  • Teaching medical students, specialist registrars and fellows
  • Regularly lecture for certain orthopaedic companies in their international and national meetings
  • Organised the Midland Uni-compartmental knee replacement meeting in 2006 and 2008

Selected publications:

  • Hull P, Baxter JA, Lewis C, Kordas G, Foguet P, Prakash U. Metal-on-metal hip resurfacing with uncemented fixation of the femoral component. A minimum 2 year follow up. Hip Int. 2011 Jul 18.
  • Baxter JA, Krkovic M, Prakash U. Intertrochanteric femoral fracture after hip resurfacing managed with a reverse distal femoral locking plate: a case report.Hip Int. 2010 Oct-Dec;20(4):562-4.
  • Killampalli VV, Hayes A, Parsons N, Costa ML, Prakash U. Hip resurfacing using the trochanteric flip osteotomy.Hip Int. 2009 Apr-Jun;19(2):131-5.
  • Prakash U, McGurty DW, Dent JA. Hemiarthroplasty for severe fractures of the proximal humerus. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2002 Sep-Oct;11(5):428-30.
  • Prakash U, Wigderowitz CA, McGurty DW, Rowley DI. Computerised measurement of tibiofemoral alignment. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2001 Aug;83(6):819-24.
  • Prakash U, Mulgrew S, Espley AJ. Effect of activity levels on polyethylene wear in Charnley low-friction arthroplasty. J R Coll Surg Edinb. 1999 Jun;44(3):193-6.
  • Court-Brown CM, Rimmer S, Prakash U, McQueen MM. The epidemiology of open long bone fractures. Injury. 1998 Sep;29(7):529-34.
  • Prakash U, Court-Brown CM. Fracture through an osteochondroma. Injury. 1996 Jun; 27(5):357-8. No abstract available.

India

Over the last 5 years I’ve spent a long time in Hyderabad, India managing patients with complex hip and knee problems. Often these unfortunate people are in no position to pay for their surgery and expensive implants. We try and help them by various means. I am keen to establish a more permanent relationship with India and create an exchange educational programme not only for doctors but also for para-medical personnel like nurses and physiotherapists.