Expertise

• Degenerative Spine Disease and Osteoporosis
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
• Endoscopic Spine Surgery
• Corrective Surgery for Spine Deformity
• Spine Infection and Tumor

Experience

• Has performed more than 2000 spine surgeries.

Awards & Recognition

• Best Poster presentation in ASSICON 2015 (National Conference of Association of Spine Surgeons of India) held at Goa : “High magnitude Scoliotic Curves – Our experience of 16 cases.”
• Best Paper presented in WIROC 2010 (Western Indian Regional Orthopaedic Conference) : “Failed osteosynthesis in distal radius fractures”
• Best Dissertation : M.S (Orthopaedic surgery) 2012

Conference, Presentation & Publications 

• Paper presented in ASSICON 2015 Goa (Annual conference of Association of Spine Surgeons of India) : “Efficacy of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in correction of spinal deformities.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Goa : “Correlation of scoliosis curve correction with implant density in 47 cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Goa : “Minimally Invasive TLIF using cannulated and fenestrated cement augmented pedicle screws in for lumbar spondylolisthesis and cauda equina syndrome in patient with severe osteoporosis.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Goa : “Correlation of scoliosis curve correction with implant density in 48 cases of congenital scoliosis.”
• Paper presented in MISSICON 2015 Mumbai (Annual conference of Minimally Invasive spine surgeons of India) : “CT scan assessment of accuracy of percutaneous pedicle screw insertion and relevance.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Pune : “Neurofibromatosis Kyphoscoliosis with lateral listhesis – an unusual presentation.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Pune : “Various treatment modalities for symptomatic Atlanto-axial osteoarthritis – Case series.”
• Poster presented in ASSICON 2015 Pune : “Case report of Spinal Inradural Arterio-venous fistula.”
• Poster presented in WIROC 2011 : “Case report of Solitary Osteochondroma of Ilium.”
• Presented lecture in BOS 2011(Bombay Orthopaedic Society) : “Unique method of treatment of Developmental Dysplasia of hip at 5 years by Ilizarov fixator combined with shelf osteotomy.”
• Paper presented in WIROC 2009 : “Types of Arthroplasty for Rheumatoid foot.”
• Presented Lecture in BOS 2009 : “Osteoporotic Spinal fracture with neurological deficiet.”
• Thesis for DNB Orthopaedic Surgery : “To study Correlation between pulmonary and spinal tuberculosis.”

Participation in Clinical Research

• Review of 200 cases of Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) at Stavya Spine Hospital and Research Centre, Ahmedabad.
• To study Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) in high risk patients undergoing spine surgery at Stavya Spine Hospital and Research Centre, Ahmedabad.
• Series of Hybrid Minimally Invasive spine fixation for osteoporotic spine fractures at Chirayu Hospital, Ahmedabad.
• Types of Flaps for Open Type III Tibia fracture at K.J Somaiya Hospital and Research centre, Mumbai.

Professional Registration

• Gujarat Medical Council : G-37623
• Maharastra Medical Council : MMC2008/07/2909
• Medical Council of India

Membership in Scientific Societies

• Spine Association of Gujarat (SAG)
• Indian Medical Council (IMA 25619)
• Association of Spine surgeons of India (ASSI : Life Member – 2757)
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon of India (MISSI : Life Member – MISSI0024)
• AO Spine
• SICOT
• North American Spine Society (NASS)

Courses and Conference Attended

• ASSICON Goa 2015 (Annual Conference of Spine Surgeons of India) Nov 2015, Goa, India
• MISSICON 2015 (Annual conference of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon of India) Oct 2015, Mumbai, India
• ACMISST 2015 (Asian Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques) Sept 2015,Goa, India
• ASSICON 2015 : 23-25 Jan , Pune, India
• MISSICON 2014 : Nov 2014, Ahmedabad, India
• SPINE 2014 (Annual conference of Neuro Spinal Surgeon’s association of India), 19-21 Sept 2014, Ahmedabad, India
• AO spine operative course in Lumbar Degenerative disease, 28-30 Aug 2014, Ahmedabad, India
• Stavya Spine Operative Course 20-21 June, 2014, Ahmedabad, India
• AO Spine Principles Course 22-24 Feb 2013, Ahmedabad, India
• CME “Winter Meet 2013” Parekh’s Hospital, 31 Jan 2013, Ahmedabad, India
• ISAKOS Knee Course 2012, Mumbai, India
• Cure academy – Hands on cadaveric spine course, Jan 2012, Pune, India
• CME “Update on Acetabular fractures” Oct 2012, Ahmedabad, India
• WIROC 2011(Western India Regional orthopaedic conference), Mumbai, India
• TRUAMACON 2011
• ASSICON 2011, Mumbai, India
• Post Graduate instructional course organised by India Orthopaedic Association, 24-25 Dec, Indore, India
• WIROC 2010
• DNB tutorials, Dec 2010, Pune, India
• WIROC 2009
• Basic Knot Tying techniques – Aesculap Academy, March 2009
• Pre conference Cadaveric Spine workshop – WIROC 2009

Academic Scholarship

• Gujarat State scholarship for higher studies 2000-2005
• Universal Trust Science Talent Search Scholarship (National) 1996-1998