Personal profile
He gained his specialist training in Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery at St. James's Teaching Hospital Leeds, Yorkshire training programme. During this training he acquired very prestigious FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery in 1999. Mr Maqsood travelled to Germany and obtained an AO fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma from Regensburg University in 2001.
Aside from general orthopaedics, Mr Maqsood's particular interest encompasses specialist knee, shoulder and hip surgery. He is trained to perform arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery, minimal invasive and per-cutaneous surgery. He specialises in knee, foot, ankle and shoulder ligaments, reconstruction and cartilage repair with advanced techniques like ACI (autologous chondrocyte implantation) MACI (membrane assisted chondrocyte implantation) and Tru-fit cartilage plug Mosaic chnodroplasty.
Mr Maqsood took his post as Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital in 2002. He is an AO faculty member for teaching surgical skill, principle courses for surgeons and operating room personnel. He is the lead for the ACE MDD-Module for medical students from the University Of Nottingham, and a trainer for specialist registrars and senior house officers.
He is a keen researcher and has presented many research papers in the UK and countries like Orlando, USA in 2001, Helsinki, Finland in 2003 and Florence, Italy in 2007. He presented papers and poster in Nice, France in 2008 and presented papers at the SICOT Conference, Hong Kong in 2008.
At present, he is chief investigator of an important research project, “The effects of smoking on fracture healing” based at Lincoln County Hospital in collaboration with the University of Lincoln.
