Mr. Tahir Khan is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon currently working at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore in the Young Adult Hip Unit.
Tahir Khan was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Central Manchester University Hospitals in October 2002, where he established a high quality lower limb and childrens’ orthopaedic surgery practice before relocating to Stanmore in May 2013. Mr. Khan trained in the north-west of England (Sheffield, Birmingham and Manchester) and undertook specialist fellowship training in the USA, Toronto, Canada, and Mainz, Germany.
His experience and interests include children’s orthopaedics, realignment osteotomies, hip pain in children, adolescents and young adults. Mr. Khan is particularly interested in hip preservation surgery and offers arthroscopic hip surgery and osteotomies around the hip joint.
Mr. Khan has always enjoyed the interaction with patients and takes time to discuss all treatment options, looking at alternatives and explaining things clearly.
Paediatric Orthopaedics
- Congenital and acquired deformity and disability
- Ponseti method for correction of Congenital Talipes Equino Varus (CTEV) or Club Foot Deformity
- Positional foot deformities eg: Metatarsus Adductus
- Paediatric fractures
- Neuromuscular disease
- Hip dysplasia
Yound Adult Hip
- Hip Arthroscopy
- Peri acetabular osteotomy (PAO)
- Femoral Osteotomy
Research interests: Hip preservation surgery
Achievements/publications:
Reviewer: Bone and Joint Journal 2013
Examiner; Intercollegiate Board Tr & Orth December 2009
American - British - Canadian (ABC) Fellowship May/June 2004
Royal College of Surgeons Travelling Fellowship 1995
Best Research paper; Sheffield 1997
Published more than 30 peer reviewed papers