ABOUT Mr Vipin Asopa
Mr Asopa practices at the following hospitals: South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, London Bridge Hospital, The Shard, Chiswick, Hendon Hospital and Fitzrovia Hospital.
APPOINTMENTS & DIAGNOSIS
CONSULTANT HIP AND KNEE SURGEON
MR VIPIN ASOPA
PHD, FRCS (TR & ORTH), MBCHB, BSC (HONS)
Mr Asopa qualified from the University of Bristol in 1998. He completed his basic surgical training on the prestigious Hammersmith Hospital surgical rotation in 2002 before embarking on a PhD at Imperial College, London. In 2007 he undertook orthopaedic surgery training on the Charing-Cross North-West Thames rotation. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in 2011.
Mr Asopa travelled to Adelaide, Australia to undertake a fellowship at SportsMed.SA to develop and refine his sports surgery technique. He then returned to the UK for a further specialist hip arthroscopy and arthroplasty (joint replacement) fellowship at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He finally completed a trauma fellowship in Vienna, Austria. From 2014, Vipin held a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon post at North Middlesex University Hospital.
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