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| BSSH | (British Society for Surgery of the Hand) |
| BOA | (British Orthopaedic Association) |
| CSOS | (Combined Services Orthopaedic Society) |
| RASS | (Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgery Society) |
Charles Pailthorpe is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon working in the NHS at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and consulting privately at Capio Hospital, Reading.
He qualified from Birmingham Medical School, having joined the Royal Army Medical Corps whilst a student. After completing his houseman year at hospitals in Stratford and Coventry he was posted to Hong Kong as the Regimental Medical Officer at Stanley Fort. Whilst there he served with the First Battalion, the Royal Green Jackets, and the Queen’s Own Highlanders before moving to the British Military Hospital in Kowloon to start his career in surgery. He had a variety of postings in military hospitals in England and had tours to Northern Ireland, West Germany, Belize, the Falklands and Nepal. He served in the first Gulf War.
His training in trauma and orthopaedic surgery involved experience in military hospitals and also two years in Oxford at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital. He started his consultant career at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot in 1992 but left the Services in 1995 to take up his current post at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust. His military career inevitably involved a large experience in traumatic injuries, but his elective interest in orthopaedic conditions has always been in the upper limb, to the extent that now he is exclusively a hand surgeon. He has obtained a postgraduate certificate in Medical Informatics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in March 2006.
| BSSH | (British Society for Surgery of the Hand) |
| ERASS | (European Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgical Society) |
| EWAP | (European Wrist Arthroscopy Society) |
| NOV | (Netherlands Orthopaedic Society) |
| NvHC | (Netherlands Society for Surgery of the Hand) |
Zulfi Rahimtoola is a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon working at the Royal Berkshire and Battle NHS Foundation trust in Reading and Newbury.
He started the study of Medicine at the University of Bristol and through the Erasmus European exchange program he qualified as a Medical Doctor at the University of Leiden in 1996. The year hereafter he spent as a Research Fellow at Stanford University, Stanford, California. In 1998 he commenced his specialist registrar training in the Netherlands. During his training he developed a keen interest hand and wrist surgery and combined his clinical work with academic research on the treatment of arthritic disorders of the wrist. He published various papers and was invited to present and lecture in different centres throughout Europe. His research resulted in a PhD thesis on surgery of the wrist in rheumatoid arthritis which he successfully defended in 2005. Part of this work received the annual dutch registrar prize.
After qualifying as an Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2004 he worked in 4 different international centres of excellence in hand surgery in Barcelona, Paris, Derby and Wrightington. Through his academic research and extensive postgraduate fellowship training he has become an Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon with a comprehensive understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic conditions affecting the hand and wrist. He continues to perform research in the field and maintains strong academic links within Europe.
Zulfi speaks 5 languages fluently (English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Urdu). He has preferably returned to Britain and happily settled down in Berkshire to support and further develop the Reading Hand Service. He plays jazz and blues guitar and enjoys travel and open-water diving.