Dr. Karthik M Selvaraj completed MBBS., from the prestigious Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai. He did his MS Ortho from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the premier Post Graduate Training Institute of India.
He worked as a senior Resident at AIIMS and the JPN Apex Trauma Centre affiliated to it. At AIIMS Dr.Karthik received expert training in the care of Orthopeadic trauma patients as well as Joint Reconstruction Arthroscopy Hand Surgery and Sports Medicine.
He then worked in Christ Church Hospital, New Zealand as a shoulder Fellow. He gained experience in the assessment and management of injuries in the upper limb. He did another Upper Limb Fellowship program in Wiakato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. Dr. Karthik then left for Adelaide, Australia and worked at Flinders Medical Centre as a Fellow in Trauma and Joint Reconstruction. He received advance training in Trauma and Replacement surgeries at Adelaide. He was selected to work as an advance trauma fellow at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Alfred Hospital is the leading Level Three Trauma Centre of Australia, which receives maximum number of polytrauma patients.
He was trained in pelviacetabular trauma at Alfred Hospital.His special interests include shoulder and elbow surgery, arthroscopy and sports medicine. He routinely performs shoulder and elbow arthroscopies, Upper limb fracture surgery and Shoulder and Elbow replacement surgeries.
He is also a sports enthusiast, a keen swimmer, a certified scuba diver and a cyclist.
Have performed around 3000 surgeries in the last 10 years
Have performed around 3000 surgeries in the last 10 years
Qualifications Profile
Primary Medical Degree: MBBS
30.04.2004
Govt Stanley Meidcal College
Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, India
MS Orth
30.12.2008
All India Institute of Medical sciences, Delhi, India
DNB Orth (Awarded by the National Board of Examinations)
PRACTICING HISTORY
01 April 2004 – 31 March 2005
Govt Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India
One year of CRRI( Compulsory Rotatory Resident Intern)
Working three months each in Surgery including Orthopedics, ENT and Ophthalmology, General Medicine, Obs and Gynae and Community Medicine respectively
Supervision of nursing staff On call roster
01 January 2006-31 December 2008
Postgraduate Junior resident (Academic)
Dept of Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Responsibilities
Manage inpatients in a 60 bedded Orthopedic ward Perform emergency orthopedic procedures including fracture care and surgery Assist and perform elective orthopedic procedures Run OPD for own follow up patients and general outpatients On call roster
Junior staff supervision
Medical student teaching
Research Thesis work
20 January 2009-20 January 2010,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Senior Resident, Department of Orthopedics
Responsibilities
Assess patients in OPD and make treatment decisions On call trauma and emergency theatres performing trauma surgery Perform elective Orthopedic surgeries including replacement and arthroscopic procedures
Work in the ED on roster basis as the ED medical officer Teaching of junior residents
Responsibility for inpatients in a 40 bedded ortho trauma ward and 60 bedded general orthopedic ward
01 Feb 2010 – 31 July 2010
Christchurch hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
Fellow in Upper limb surgery
Responsibilities
Assess upper limb and trauma patients in clinics Perform and assist in Upper limb surgeries Registrar and medical student teaching
01 Aug 2010 – 12 Dec 2010
Waikato hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand
Fellow, Dept of Orthopedics
Responsibilities
Assess upper limb and trauma patients in clinics Perform and assist in Upper limb and trauma surgeries Registrar and medical student teaching On call roster as junior consultant/ senior registrar
01 Feb 2011 to Jan 2012 Fellow in Trauma and Arthroplasty
Flinders Medical Center, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Responsibilities
Patient care in elective and trauma wards Elective and Emergency operating and on call roster Supervision of junior registrars Undergraduate and post graduate teaching and research projects
01 Feb 2012 to Jan 2013
Fellow in Trauma
Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Responsibilities
Jun 2013 – Jun 2020
Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon
Ortho One -Orthopedic Speciality Center,
Coimbatore
Incharge of Research and training of Fellows
Elective and Emergency Operating and Care
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
APKASS ESSKA TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP 2016
Awarded the APKASS ESSKA Travelling Fellowship 2016, a one month long travelling fellowship which included visiting centres of excellence in Europe including Instabul, Larissa, Geneva, Porto, Brussels, Bologna and attended the ESSKA meeting in Barcelona. Prof Masahiro Kurasaka was the Godfather.
University Medals
National Gold Medal
Research Awards
The Dr.Leela Krishnamoorthy Award for the best UG paper by the “Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists”
The ICMR Summer Vacation Studentship Award for the paper “Thyroid Status in obese peri menopausal women”
Joan and Herb Kirby Scholarship to attend the 18th International Congress of the Children Hospice International, 2007 at Singapore BBraun Medical Trust Foundation Scholarship for excellence in the field of Orthopedics
Functional outcome after arthroscopically assisted mini open rotator cuff repair in patients with full thickness supraspinatus tears
Publications
Faculty/ Invited Speaker
International Meetings Attended
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