Kunal Kulkarni is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon based at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, undertaking general trauma and subspecialist Hand and Wrist surgery. He received his medical degree from the University of Oxford and subsequently completed his surgical training across the Oxford, London, and Midlands training regions. He undertook a fellowship at the internationally renowned Pulvertaft Hand Centre (Derby, UK) alongside a BOA Travelling Fellowship to Ganga Hospital (Coimbatore, India). He is one of only a select few Hand and Wrist surgeons in the UK that is dual certified with both the British and European Diplomas in Hand Surgery. Randeep Aujla is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee, sports, and trauma at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He is internationally fellowship trained across Europe and Australia. He is the Head of Trauma in his unit and is the Leicester Knee Fellowship Co-Director. In the UK he has worked in professional sport for 10 years and enjoys athlete-care. He has an interest in sports related orthopaedic conditions and their management. He prides himself on providing evidence-based medicine for all his patients and values a patient-centred approach. Jeremy Granville-Chapman is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified with a distinction from Barts and the London in 2003. Research into resuscitation strategies following military wounding yielded an MD. He won the 2013 Sir Walter Mercer Medal for the top performance in FRCS. Fellowship training at Wrightington (Upper Limb) and Brighton (Trauma) led to his Consultant appointment in 2016. Mr Granville-Chapman has published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has presented at learned meetings, both internationally and nationally. Alongside clinical work, Jeremy is a keen educator and regularly teaches surgeons in arthroscopy and fellowship exam preparation courses.

Another excellent addition to the excellent Oxford Handbook series.

• 1: David Bruce: History and examination 2: Muaaz Tahir, Usman Ahmed, Shahbaz Malik: Investigations 3: Philip Darcy & Faiz Shivzi: Initial assessment and management 4: Frances Rickard, Katie Samuel, David Shipway: Perioperative care 5: Helen Tunicliffe, Aoife Nic Chathmhaoil: Rehabilitation 6: Kim Lammin: Basic sciences 7: Kunal Kulkarni: Principles of evidence-based medicine 8: James Berwin, Chris Lavy, N. C. Mkandawire: Global orthopaedics 9: Bobby Siddiqui, Illustrated by Aqua Asif and Ayaan Asif: Anatomy 10: Parag Raval and Victoria Gibbs: Surgical approaches and principles 11: Priyanka Chandrate: Adult orthopaedics - rheumatology 12: Nicholas Eastley, Robert Ashord: Adult Pathology 13: Alex Woods, Jeremy Granville-Chapman: Adult orthopaedics - shoulder and elbow 14: Nick Johnson, Kate Brown: Adult orthopaedics - wrist and hand 15: Nomaan Sheikh: Adult orthopaedics - hip and knee 16: Lauren Thomson: Adult orthopaedics - foot and ankle 17: Siddarth Shah, Shakil Patel: Adult orthopaedics - spine 18: Simon Parker: Adult trauma - upper limb 19: Andrew Wheelton: Adult trauma - lower limb 20: Ahmad Tarawneh, Shakil Patel: Adult spine emergencies 21: Daniel Reed, Michail Kokkinakis, Sam Weston Smith: Paediatric orthopaedics 22: Sultan Alkalbani, Shakil Patel: Paediatric - spine 23: Khaled Sarraf, Chang Park: Paediatric trauma