Personal Profile
Miss Homa Arshad MB BChir, MA, FRCS is the Clinical Lead Consultant for the department at the Royal London Hospital.
Her professional practice is in primary, complex and revision hip and knee arthroplasty and pelvic and acetabular trauma surgery. She has an interest in unusual or challenging hip and knee replacement surgery and arthroplasty as an immediate solution for traumatic injuries and fractures.
She graduated from Cambridge University and trained on the Percivall Pott Rotation. Medical student experience included New York, California and Salvador in Brazil. She completed her revision hip fellowship in Norfolk, working with John Nolan, then a recent past president of the British Hip Society. She also completed fellowships in Germany with Professor Michael Raschke, Head of AO and in Denmark with Professor Kjeld Sobelle who pioneered minimally invasive periacetabular osteotomy. Training as the pelvic and acetabular fellow at Barts Health facilitated enhanced abilities in acetabular reconstruction for arthroplasty as well as trauma.
She is a current ATLS instructor, teaching also on the national instructor’s faculty course and is an active recruiter of new faculty. She also teaches as faculty for AO, the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and the London Pelvic Course. She is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and tutor for the International Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences MSc at Queen Mary University of London and a reviewer for BJJ. She has recently joined the Women in Surgery Working Party against Sexual Misconduct, having seen its destruction in four regions of the UK. Research interests include patient outcomes, pelvic and acetabular trauma and enhanced recovery.
