Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon
Biography
Rupert Wharton is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon with a sub-specialty interest in Hand and Wrist. He has an interest in sports injuries, fractures and degenerative conditions, and works closely with hand therapy colleagues to ensure all non operative solutions have been tried before considering surgery.
His practice interests include:
- Sports ligament repair
- Arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) for the wrist
- Thumb arthritis including joint replacement
- Hand and wrist fractures
- Dupuytren’s disease
- Nerve compression syndromes
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (pressure on the median nerve in the hand)
- Cubital tunnel syndrome (pressure on the ulnar nerve in the elbow)
Mr Wharton trained on the North West Thames Rotation, having ranked first in Trauma and Orthopaedics national selection 2014.
He has a subspecialty and research interest in hand, wrist and elbow surgery following fellowships at the internationally renowned Wrightington Upper Limb Unit, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby.
He was awarded the Soli Lam Travelling Fellowship by the British Orthopaedic Association to the prestigious Institut Kaplan, Barcelona, and Institut de la Main, Paris.
He is an alumnus of the British Orthopaedic Association’s Future Leaders Programme 2022, and he is an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve with a keen interest in leadership in healthcare and in the operating theatre.
He has sat on the BOTA committee as Publicity Officer and produced the JOINT annual journal. He represented BOTA to the British Orthopaedic Association Professional Practice and Patient Liaison Committees. He was BOTA Linkman for the North West Thames rotation between 2014 and 2020, and ran the deanery core curriculum training 2019-20.
Patient enquiries: whartonpa
Professional memberships
BOTA, BOA, BSSH, International Wrist Arthroscopy Society, AO, RCS(Eng)