About A B Govindaraj, MD

Education

Undergraduate
Madras Christian College School, Chennai, India SSLC, Science 1973
Medical
Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur, India MBBS, Medicine, Surgery 1979
Fellowship
Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany Spine Instrumentation Surgery 1998
Fellowship
Royal College Of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow, Great Britain FRCS, Surgery 1985

Society memberships

Additional Society Memberships
  • Indian Orthopedic Association

  • TamilNad Orthopedic Association

  • Bombay Orthopedic Society

  • Association Of Surgeons of India

Achievements

Spine Surgery, Nuffield Orthopedic Hospital, Oxford, UK, in 1990; Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Nuffield Orthopedic Hospital, Oxford, UK, under Mr. Benson in 1990

Spine Instrumentation Surgery training at the Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany, under dr. med. Henry Halm, in March, 1998 Total Hip Replacement Surgery, Anderson Orthopedic Research Institute, Arlington, Virginia, under Dr. Charles Engh, February, 2000

Total Knee Replacement Surgery, Anderson Orthopedic Research Institute, Arlington, Virginia, under Dr. Gerard Engh, February 2000

Shoulder Replacement Surgery, Washington, DC, under Dr. Charles Rockwood February, 2000

Total Joint Arthroplasty, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, under Dr Lawrence Dorr, March, 2001

Unicondylar Joint arthroplasty, Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzil, Milan, under Dr. Sergio Romagnioli, June, 2003 Presentations: Gamma Nail Fixation in Proximal Femoral Fractures; North Thames Regional Orthopedic Society; Bedford, UK, 1990

Management of Proximal Femoral Fractures; TamilNad Orthopedic Society Annual Meet; Chennai, 1991

Complications of Total Hip Replacement; National Arthroplasty meet; Connemera Hotel; Chennai, 1991

Associated Lesions in ACL Deficient knees; TamilNad Orthopedic Society Annual Meet; Yercaud, 1995

Disseminated Skeletal Tuberculosis; TamilNad Orthopedic Society Annual Meet; Chennai, 1998

Sequential Vs Simultaneous Total Knee Replacement; TamilNad Orthopedic Society Annual Meet; Trichy, 2001

DHS Fixation in Lateral position without Fracture Table; TamilNad Orthopedic Society Annual Meet; Trichy, 2001

Skeletal Stabilization of Open Tibial Fractures; AO Alumni meet, Chennai, 2002

Total Knee Replacement Surgery; Current Status; Apollo Hospital Inaugural meet, Bilaspur, Chaattisgarh, India, 2002

Tribology of Hip Resurfacing; National Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Conference; Chennai, 2003

Publications: Editor and Publisher of OrthoNet India, a high quality quarterly publication of selected abstracts from the Internet, composed, designed and published from chennai, in 4 colors. Was distributed free to most orthopedic surgeons in India and select surgeons from the SAARC country region courtesy of Sulzer Orthopedics and Sun Pharma, India at an annual cost of US$40,000/-

Community activities

Weekly Teaching Sessions, every Tuesday, for Orthopedic Residents at The Apollo Specialty Hospital Chennai. Buying Orthopedic related stuff on Ebay

Business Card

Home AO-3362, 8th Street, 12th main Road Anna Nagar Chennai, TN India 600 040 View map Phone 98400 81180 Fax 9144 26283131

Group Partners

Dr Ajit Yadav &
Dr Vijay C Bose

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