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By Mr Shobhit Verma
Paediatric orthopaedics

Mr Shobhit Verma is a highly respected consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon based in London, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. He is renowned for his expertise in foot and ankle problems, paediatric hip and walking disorders. He additionally specialises in bowed legs, deformity and hip dysplasia.

Mr Verma qualified in medicine from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India in 1995 before completing a Master of surgery (MS) specialising in orthopaedics. He then went on to undertake a series of highly esteemed fellowships, including several accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). In this period, he completed a paediatric and adult trauma and arthroplasty fellowship at Flinders University and Medical Centre in Adelaide and was also a senior clinical fellow in trauma surgery at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. In 2013, Mr Verma was appointed as a fellow of the European Board of Trauma and Orthopaedics and the following year, also achieved fellowship of the trauma and orthopaedics section of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was additionally awarded a senior fellowship specialising in paediatric orthopaedics at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2016, Mr Verma has served as a consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at King’s College London, Bedfordshire Hospitals and London and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts, and is clinical lead in orthopaedic surgery at the latter. He sees patients in private practice at a number of locations in London, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire; The Cobham Clinic, The Clementine Churchill Hospital, One Hatfield Hospital, The Bridges Clinic and Spire London East Hospital.

Mr Verma has extensive teaching experience and has regularly trained junior doctors and medical students in Australia, India and the UK throughout his career. He currently serves as an invited faculty member of various FRCS courses in London and frequently teaches medical trainees from University College London and King's College London.

Additional to his clinical and teaching responsibilities, Mr Verma remains actively involved in research and has acted as principal investigator in various studies. He has also produced a number of academic papers which appear in peer reviewed journals and regularly presents at key conferences. Mr Verma is a member of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society and the Indian Medical Association.

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