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Jagdeep Nanchahal is the Professor of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery within Imperial College, based at the Charing Cross Hospital campus. The position is shared between the Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthesia and the Division of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. The Kennedy Institute is dedicated to research in musculoskeletal disorders and is pre-eminent in the world for translational research, which entails developing treatments in the laboratory and transferring them to direct patient care. Amongst their greatest achievements is the development of anti-TNFa treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Professor Nanchahal is also chief of musculoskeletal services, including plastic surgery, rheumatology and orthopaedic surgery, at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Professor Nanchahal trained at the Charing Cross Hospital and Westminster Medical School in London. He undertook an intercalated BSc in anatomy in 1980 and went on to complete his PhD in 1982. Following graduation from medical school in 1985, he undertook his basic clinical training in London and was awarded the fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England in 1989. He went on to complete his plastic surgery training in London and Wales and was awarded the intercollegiate specialist fellowship in plastic surgery in 1996. He undertook fellowships in hand and microsurgery in Sydney and the USA, before returning to London to be appointed as senior lecturer in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Imperial College School of Medicine. In 2002 he was appointed associate Professor within the University of Sydney, based at the Royal North Shore Hospital, before his return to London in 2006.

His clinical interests relate mainly to surgery of the upper and lower limb. He has been trained to the highest levels in treating disorders of the hand, with specialist interests in patients with nerve injury or compression, tendon disorders, Dupuytren’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and children born with congenital hand anomalies. He has a particular interest in microsurgical reconstruction. Together with Michael Pearse, consultant orthopaedic surgeon based at the Charing Cross Hospital, Professor Nanchahal has built up a truly combined plastic and orthopaedic surgery service dedicated to the treatment of patients with lower limb injuries. Together they organised the last combined meeting of the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 2003. He is a member of several learned societies, including the British and Australian Societies for Hand Surgery and the British Association of Plastic Surgery.

His academic background combined with his surgical training has allowed Professor Nanchahal to pursue basic scientific research with direct application to patient care. He was involved in the development of cultured composite skin grafts and, more recently, in determining the mechanisms of tendon and bone invasion and destruction in rheumatoid arthritis. His other interests include the role of soft tissues in fracture healing, especially of the tibia as well as the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of Dupuytren’s disease. The research activities have won numerous national and international awards, including the AO UK trauma prize as well as the prize for best paper for two consecutive years at the Australian Hand Surgery Society Meeting and the Hueston medal. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, as well as the major hand and plastic surgery journals. He has been an invited lecturer on more than 60 occasions. He is committed to the development of academic surgery and has supervised several surgical trainees through periods of research, leading to them being awarded higher degrees, such as Doctor of Philosophy.