Sam Gidwani is a consultant hand and wrist surgeon who graduated from King’s College, London in 1995. He trained in orthopaedic and trauma surgery in London, Surrey and Bristol. During his formative training, he spent six months working in the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, where he first became interested in hand surgery.

Having completed his orthopaedic training and FRCS (Tr&Orth) qualifications in 2006, Sam then spent two years working and training in specialist hand and wrist units. This included time at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby, and the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. He returned to the Pulvertaft Centre as a locum consultant in 2009 for six months, before moving to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, where he has worked since then. In September 2014 he became the Clinical Lead of the Orthopaedic Department, one of the largest and busiest units in London.