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About Yathish Shenava - Specialist Hip & Knee Surgeon

Yathish Shenava is a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in London where he holds a specialist clinical interest in trauma, hip, and knee surgery; a position he has held since 2005.

Yathish began his training in India, completing his residency in Mangalore and a lectureship in Trauma and Orthopaedics in St John’s Medical College Hospital in Bangalore in 1994. After moving to England in 1995, he began his Specialty Training across various hospitals in the South Thames Deanery, gaining invaluable experience in paediatric, spinal and upper limb surgery across Canterbury, Margate, and Ashford.

A limb reconstruction fellowship at King’s College Hospital in 2001 gave Yathish skills in managing complex complex fractures and deformities, and a further fellowship at Stanmore’s Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital developed Yathish’s expertise in hip and knee arthroplasty before completing the Specialist Registrar years at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.

Alongside his clinical work, Yathish is an active lecturer and clinical teacher, educating medical students and foundation year trainees, as well as surgeons enrolled on the FRCS (Ortho) course at King’s College Hospital London. Yathish has published widely in the research areas of knee arthroplasty, rotator cuff repair, and plate fixation for femoral fractures. He continues to research and work in these fields and is passionate about translating this work and experience to bedside care.

Partnership with myrecovery


Myrecovery is a unique patient journey app, which guides my patients through their treatment from start to finish for all the common knee surgeries I perform. By using myrecovery, I strongly believe that my patients are significantly benefiting by being informed, involved and in control of their personalised treatment plans, with fingertip access to relevant and precise information. Patients can track their recovery, visualising their improvement and gaining confidence every step of the way. Most importantly, my patients and I are reassured by a sense of increased contact with each other all be it in a novel way!