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Professor Waqar Bhatti is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist MBChB, FRCS(Ed), DMRD, FRCR. Professor Waqar Bhatti is an internationally renowned Musculoskeletal Radiologist specialising in joint, tendon and soft tissue disorders. He completed his medical training from the Victoria University of Manchester.

He completed his surgical training gaining the FRCS(Ed) in 1996 and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists three years later in 1999. During his time at University Hospital of South Manchester, Professor Bhatti organised and directed the first comprehensive musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging and MR arthrogram service in Manchester.

He was the first to introduce the technique of hydrodilatation and has performed many thousands. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Salford and Visiting Professor of Sports Radiology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

His work in sports science includes services to both the Manchester Premier League football teams , County Cricket team, North West Rugby Teams, British Cycling , England Netball and British Taekwondo.

He was the North West Radiology Representative to the Olympics teams based in the North West 2012 and Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in August 2018. His research has been recognised internationally through many prizes including two Cum Laude awards from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) for work presented on Ultrasound of Finger Flexor Tendon Imaging. His current research includes adopting stem cells for clinical use and new platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapies for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis and tendon disease.

Radiologist to Sport Stars and is senior radiologist to both Manchester Premiership teams and Cricket Club. Professor of Orthopaedic Radiology and Sports sciences at the University of Salford, Manchester Visiting Professor of Sports Radiology Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester and Associate Editor Clinical Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists.