Mr Birender Kapoor
Mr Birender Kapoor is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Lancashire who specialises in hip and knee surgery.
Based At
NHS base
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
GMC Number
5191150
Clinic Timetable
Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00 weekly
Clinical interests
Knee arthritis, Hip arthritis, Non arthritic hip and knee pain, Knee soft tissue injury, Trochanteric pain syndrome, Avascular necrosis of the hip.
Mr Kapoor has worked as a Consultant in Trauma and adult reconstructive surgery for more than a decade. His subspecialty interests include primary and revision hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery and knee arthroscopy (key hole surgery of the knee). He has a special interest in revision for instability (dislocations) of the hip replacements and fractures around joint replacements.
He is the co-founder of the Liverpool Metastatic Bone Service (LiMBS). He is a passionate proponent of aggressive treatment of cancer that spreads to the bone to allow the patients to stay mobile and pain free. He performs massive endoprosthetic replacement to reconstruct the bone loss after cancer excision.
Mr Kapoor specialises in hip replacement surgery with cemented and cementless implants, total knee replacements and revision hip surgery. He uses up-to-date and advanced methods to ensure correct placement of the implants to reduce risk of dislocation and leg length discrepancy after surgery.
Professional Memberships
RCS Ed
BOA
BOOS
Academic Background
Mr Kapoor undertook his Orthopaedic training in the Merseyside before taking up a post as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospital in 2012. He undertook fellowships in knee arthroplasty and revision hip arthroplasty at Southampton. He is a keen teacher and a researcher. He has published regularly in the areas of his sub specialty expertise.
He is the current Orthopaedic Oncology lead for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals. He was the Trauma clinical director for a period of two years. He is a member of Royal College of Surgeons Examination committee for the FRCS Orth.
In addition to his clinical work, he is an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
He is the co-founder of LiMBS, a novel service started in Liverpool to treat patients with cancer spread to the bone. We treat patients from the whole of the Merseyside and Cheshire region. He has been instrumental in presenting this service nationally and regionally to raise its profile. He has undertaken courses and various teaching sessions regionally to disseminate the latest methods of treatment of metastatic disease.
He has a keen interest in teaching and does this at various levels including medical students, FY trainees, Senior Orthopaedic trainees, physiotherapists and scrub nurses. He is invited faculty for a number of FRCS exam courses in the Merseyside and at Wrightington. He teaches the extended scope physiotherapists on the HEAL course at University of Liverpool; he is a reviewer for Strategies in Limb Reconstruction journal.
-MBBS 1996
-MRCS 2001
-FRCS Orth 2009
Based at
NHS base
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust
GMC Number
5191150
Clinic Timetable
Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00 weekly
Clinical interests
Knee arthritis, Hip arthritis, Non arthritic hip and knee pain, Knee soft tissue injury, Trochanteric pain syndrome, Avascular necrosis of the hip.
Mr Kapoor has worked as a Consultant in Trauma and adult reconstructive surgery for more than a decade. His subspecialty interests include primary and revision hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery and knee arthroscopy (key hole surgery of the knee). He has a special interest in revision for instability (dislocations) of the hip replacements and fractures around joint replacements.
He is the co-founder of the Liverpool Metastatic Bone Service (LiMBS). He is a passionate proponent of aggressive treatment of cancer that spreads to the bone to allow the patients to stay mobile and pain free. He performs massive endoprosthetic replacement to reconstruct the bone loss after cancer excision.
Mr Kapoor specialises in hip replacement surgery with cemented and cementless implants, total knee replacements and revision hip surgery. He uses up-to-date and advanced methods to ensure correct placement of the implants to reduce risk of dislocation and leg length discrepancy after surgery.
Professional Memberships
RCS Ed
BOA
BOOS
Academic Background
Mr Kapoor undertook his Orthopaedic training in the Merseyside before taking up a post as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospital in 2012. He undertook fellowships in knee arthroplasty and revision hip arthroplasty at Southampton. He is a keen teacher and a researcher. He has published regularly in the areas of his sub specialty expertise.
He is the current Orthopaedic Oncology lead for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals. He was the Trauma clinical director for a period of two years. He is a member of Royal College of Surgeons Examination committee for the FRCS Orth.
In addition to his clinical work, he is an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
He is the co-founder of LiMBS, a novel service started in Liverpool to treat patients with cancer spread to the bone. We treat patients from the whole of the Merseyside and Cheshire region. He has been instrumental in presenting this service nationally and regionally to raise its profile. He has undertaken courses and various teaching sessions regionally to disseminate the latest methods of treatment of metastatic disease.
He has a keen interest in teaching and does this at various levels including medical students, FY trainees, Senior Orthopaedic trainees, physiotherapists and scrub nurses. He is invited faculty for a number of FRCS exam courses in the Merseyside and at Wrightington. He teaches the extended scope physiotherapists on the HEAL course at University of Liverpool; he is a reviewer for Strategies in Limb Reconstruction journal.
-MBBS 1996
-MRCS 2001
-FRCS Orth 2009