Training Experience in Spine

1. Visiting physician – NewYork University Hospital of Joint diseases (Spine division) – 2009.

2. Associate spine surgeon – ‘The spine Clinic’ (Dr. Bhojraj) Lilavati hospital and research center and Breach candy hospital – 2008.

3. Spine Foundation Fellowship (Dr. Bhojraj) – Lilavati hospital and research center, Bandra, and Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai – yr 2006.

4. Attended workshops on endoscopic spine surgery esp- at Seoul (2014), Bangkok (2015), Germany (2017).

5. Fellow ASSI – Low back pain research fellow – 2007.

Work Experience in Spine Surgery

1. Worked as Asst Professor and worked as an exclusive spine surgeon at NKP Salve Medical college and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital Nagpur from August 2010 till December 2013.

2. Junior Spine Consultant – ‘The spine Clinic’(Dr. Bhojraj) Lilavati hospital and research center and Breach candy hospital – 2010

3. Over 1200 spine surgeries conducted

   Scoliosis

4. Spinal deformity correction (Anterior and Posterior)

5. Craniovertebral junctions

6. Goels technique

7. Anterior transoral

8. Anterior odontoid screw fixations. 

9. Spine tumors – Extradural/ Intradural/ Intramedullary

10. Minimally invasive fixation

11. Microdiscectomy

12. Currently developing spine endoscopy techniques

13. Degenerative and traumatic spine – Anterior and posterior sx as required.

Current professional status
Consultant Spine surgeon at RNH hospital, Dhantoli since 2011

Teaching Experience:

1. Assistant Prof (in Orthopedics) at NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital for over 4 years. Involved in Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching during this tenure.

2. Instructor in Basic spine workshop – Jaipur 2011

3. Instructor in Basic spine workshop – Nagpur 2011

4. Instructor in Basic spine workshop – Kanpur 2010

5. Instructor in Basic spine workshop – Kolhapur 2010

6. Instructor in Basic spine workshop – Nashik 2009

7. Working as a Junior Consultant and Associated spine surgeon and involved in the training of Spine fellows at ‘The spine clinic’ – Lilavati hospital and Breach candy hospital, Mumbai.

8. Involved as an Instructor in postgraduate instructional course series at Lilavati hospital and research centre-2007

9. Incharge of undergraduate teaching during the postgraduation period (M S Orthopaedics – 3 years) at G.M.C. Bhopal.

Presentation/Papers:

1. Conducted symposium on Revision Spine surgery – ASSICON 2010 at Nagpur.

2. Revision spine surgery – can we devise a classification system – ASSICON 2010 at Nagpur

3. Project on Low back pain – Progress and few initial inferences – ASSICON 2008 at Chennai.

4. Project on Low back pain – progress – ASSICON 2008 at Coimbatore

5. When to do discectomy inpatient with LCS – A prospective introspection – ASSICON 2008 at Coimbatore

6. Low back pain research – An Indian Perspective – XIV Annual conference on low back pain research –Palma de Mallorca 2007

7. Project on low back pain in rural and urban poor and early results of this project – ASSICON in 2007 at Goa

8. Project on Research on low back pain in rural and urban poor –at Wiroc in Mumbai in 2006.

Publications:

1. Spinal Instability in Ankylosing spondylitis. Indian Journal of Orthopaedics 2010, 44 (3), Pg 270-276.

2. Variations of Iliolumbar veins during the anterior approach for spinal procedures. Journal of vascular surgery 2010, 51 (4), 1074

3. Rare presentation of spinal chondrosarcoma with both intraspinal and intrathoracic extension. Journal of spinal surgery 2009 1 (1), 50-53.

4. Post-surgical epidural haematoma: Complication of spine surgery: A rare case report. Journal of spinal surgery 2009 1(2), 119-121.