Mr Mohammed Abdus-Samee

Mr Mohammed Abdus-Samee is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon based in London and Orpington, specialising in keyhole surgery, rotator cuff surgery and shoulder replacement alongside shoulder decompression (arthroscopic subacromial decompression), shoulder instability and shoulder pain. He privately practices for BMI The Blackheath Hospital, BMI Chesfield Park Hospital and BMI Sloane Hospital while his NHS base is University Hospital Lewisham for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Mr Abdus-Samee has a significant number of referrals for sports injuries as well as complex and revision surgery. He is held in high regard by his colleagues and patients alike, having been nominated for NHS Staff Awards for Safety as well as patient appreciation at University Hospital Lewisham. He has noted leadership credentials, too, as the previous clinical director of Trauma and Orthopaedics at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Mr Abdus-Samee graduated from Imperial College London, where he completed his medical degree and intercalated BSc Honours. Following this, he did basic surgical training at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford and worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Harrow, London, after passing his surgical membership exams.

He completed his higher surgical training on the South-East Thames Orthopaedic Rotation at top centres including Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals as well as in Ashford in Kent, Lewisham, Woolwich and King's College Hospital. He went on to develop expertise and knowledge in his chosen field of shoulder and upper limb surgery, attending a wide range of courses and further training within Europe and North America. 

Alongside his clinical experience, Mr Abdus-Samee is an esteemed medical educator. An honorary senior clinical lecturer at King's College London, he is a keen teacher and currently he supervises both senior and junior surgical trainees. Furthermore, he examines medical students at King's College and is an FRCS (Orth) examiner on local courses and an active, qualified Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor.

From the early days of his surgical career until present, he has undertaken various research projects, writing papers that have been published in peer-reviewed journals.   

Mr Abdus-Samee is a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (FRCSEd). He underwent fellowship training in sports and arthroscopic surgery in Stoke-on-Trent and shoulder and elbow surgery in Bristol. He is an active member of various professional associations including the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) and the British Trauma Society (BTS) alongside the British Medical Association (BMA), the Medical Protection Society (MPS) and the Conflict and Catastrophe Faculty (Society of Apothecaries).