Mr Shalin Shaunak

About

Mr Shalin Shaunak is a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon whose practice is hand and wrist surgery, paediatric orthopaedics and complex trauma. He qualified in medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in 2010, with merit and an intercalated honours degree, holds a master's degree from Imperial College London on new techniques and technologies in orthopaedic surgery, and completed his higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex deanery. He then took three fellowships after his certificate of completion of training: paediatric orthopaedic surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, hand and wrist surgery at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and complex trauma and reconstruction at St Peter's Hospital. He is a consultant at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His surgical work includes trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction, treatment of Dupuytren's disease, carpal tunnel release, wrist fusion and proximal row carpectomy, replacement of the finger and thumb joints, wrist arthroscopy, reconstruction of the triangular fibrocartilage complex and of the scapholunate ligament, and surgery for scaphoid non-union, alongside complex upper and lower limb trauma.