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• He has undergone extensive specialized training, including an AO Spine Fellowship from the UK, a Y. Cotrel Spine Fellowship from France, and a Kenton Leatherman Spine Fellowship from Louisville University, Kentucky, with a focus on spinal deformities, spinal tumors, and spinal tuberculosis.
• Professor of Orthopedics and Chief of the Neurospinal Unit, K.E.M. Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai.
• Director (Medical Wing) at the Centre for Study of Society Changes, Mumbai.
• Recognized Orthopedics Teacher for Mumbai University.
• Past President of the Association of Spine Surgeons of India.
• President and Chief Trustee of the Spine Foundation.

Area of Interest: 

• Spine Surgery

• Awarded the A. A. Mehta Gold Medal for the best paper at the annual IOA conference in Vishakhapatnam, AP – 1987.
• Recipient of the Young Surgeons Forum Award in 1990.
• Received the Professor Darai Swamy Memorial Oration Award for surgical management of thoracic and thoracolumbar hyperkyphosis in Chandigarh – 1999.
• Ranked 1st in Orthopedics in MS-Orthopedics, March 1983.

He has authored 13 international publications, including:

• The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - March 2001 (American and British Publications)
• "Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis after anterior cervical fusion in Whiplash injury." Surgical Neurology Spine 2000; 53:586-8 (American Publication)

"Primary Hydatid disease of the spine - an unusual cause of progressive paraplegia." Journal of Neurosurgery (Spine) 91:216-218, 1999 (American Publication)