Mr Kumar is a Consultant at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Greater Manchester and Oswestry Sarcoma Service (GMOSS). He performs hip and knee replacements for osteoarthritis, along with knee arthroscopy for meniscal and cartilage conditions. His special interest is in musculoskeletal oncology in particular soft tissue sarcomas and metastatic bone disease from other cancers.

Mr Kumar completed his medical degree at the Royal Free and University College London medical school in 2003. His specialist post-graduate training in Trauma & Orthopaedics was in the East Midlands (South) T&O rotation.

Mr Kumar subsequently completed fellowships in lower limb arthroplasty and sarcoma in Leicester, Nottingham and the world-renowned Wrightington hospital.

Other medical interests include teaching and training along with research in arthroplasty and sarcoma.

Mr Kumar is the Clinical Director of Sarcoma for Greater Manchester Cancer Board.

He also runs the Manchester Lumps Clinic for rapid diagnostics of soft tissue lumps at:

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Areas of interest:

Total knee replacement; patellofemoral conditions; knee arthroscopy; meniscal surgery; Steriod injection; Viscosupplementation; total hip replacement; trochanteric bursitis; soft tissue sarcomas; soft tissue tumour; lipoma; Haemangioma; Schwannoma; Nerve sheath tumour; Atypical lipomatous tumour; Giant Cell Tumour; Osteochondroma; Exostosis; Enchondroma; Pathological fracture; Metastatic Bone Disease, soft tissue sarcoma

• Soft tissue Tumours (Benign and Malignant)
• Bone Tumours
• Sarcoma
• Metastatic bone disease