Mr Lorenzo Garagnani

Mr Lorenzo Garagnani is a world-renowned Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon, specialising in the treatment of disorders of the hand and wrist in both adult and paediatric patients.

Mr Garagnani was a founder and the first joint Lead of the OrthoPlastic Hand Unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.

He is an internationally recognised expert in wrist surgery and in the treatment of congenital anomalies of the hand and wrist in both children and adults.

Mr Garagnani qualified with a Master’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery from Bologna University (Italy), and subsequently trained in Trauma and Orthopaedics through the prestigious Bologna Specialist Training Programme, primarily based at the world-renowned Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute.

He completed his sub-specialist training in hand and wrist surgery — complementing his orthopaedic background with plastic and reconstructive surgery and microsurgery training — at centres of excellence in the UK. He was Hand Fellow at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department of Oxford University Hospitals, and the Hand Clinic in Windsor. In 2009, he was appointed Specialist Hand Surgeon at the Humanitas Clinical Institute in Rozzano, Milan (Italy). Between 2009 and 2012, he worked in London as a locum Consultant at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and as Hand Fellow in paediatric hand surgery and congenital hand anomalies at the Plastic Surgery Department of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

In 2012, Mr Garagnani was appointed Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon at the Department of Hand Surgery and Microsurgery at the University Hospital Policlinico di Modena (Italy), where he jointly led the Paediatric Hand Surgery/Congenital Upper Limb and Hand Anomalies Service, and ran a busy practice in complex hand and wrist trauma and elective surgery.

In 2015, he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Mr Garagnani is Honorary Reader at the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. His regular activities include supervising and teaching Specialist Trainees, Senior Hand Fellows, and medical students from both the UK and abroad.

He is the Director of the Guy's and St Thomas' London Training Centre & Upper Limb Fellowship of IBRA (International Bone Research Association), and currently serves as President of the Italian Medical Society of Great Britain (IMSoGB) and the Hand Aesthetics International (HAI) Society. He is also a past President of the Paediatric Hand International Society of Surgeons (PHISOS).

Mr Garagnani holds the European Diploma in Hand Surgery and is an Examiner and Examination Committee Member of the European Board of Hand Surgery (EBHS), part of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH).

His work and research focus on new minimally invasive techniques that reduce surgical morbidity in hand and wrist surgery. He was also the world’s first specialist hand surgeon to develop and teach anatomically based injection techniques for hand rejuvenation internationally. In addition to his surgical career, Mr Garagnani is a fully qualified expert in Aesthetic Medicine.

In 2022, Mr Garagnani was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of the Star of Italy (OSI) by the President of Italy, in recognition of his international surgical career and his volunteer work coordinating a task force of doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic.