Webinar with the Orthopaedic Academy

Clinical examination of the foot and ankle for FRCS

Mr Krishna Vemulapalli, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen’s Hospital

Target audience: Candidates preparing for the FRCS (Orth) examinations, and trainees who are in their earlier years of training.

Organised jointly by Orthopaedic Research UK and the Orthopaedic Academy

Mr Krishna Vemulapalli, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen’s Hospital

Mr Krishna Vemulapalli is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Barking Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust. His NHS practice is at King George Hospital in Goodmayes and at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, Essex, where he specialises in foot and ankle surgery and orthopaedic surgery for children. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University, London.

His qualifications are MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth). After graduation, Krishna Vemulapalli started basic surgical training in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and then completed his higher surgical training at the Royal London Hospital and the Percivall Pott Rotation.

He undertook further specialist training in foot and ankle surgery at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and in children’s orthopaedic surgery at the Royal London Hospital. He was awarded the Ilizarov Travelling Fellowship by Smith and Nephew, which took him to Kurgan in Russia.

As well as keeping up-to-date with the latest and most effective forms of treatment in trauma and orthopaedics, he teaches surgeons in various practical orthopaedic and FRCS examination courses.