Dr. Vidyadhara S
USA
Batch : 2002
Institute : KMC, 必威体育betway888
Dr Vidyadhara S is a dedicated Spine Surgeon with a special focus on Spinal Deformity Surgeries, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Computer Assisted Spine Surgery, Artificial Disc Replacements, and Complex Revision Spine Surgeries. He is also involved in Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury, and Interventional Pain Management.
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He got training in navigated spine surgery as well at Coimbatore. He further went on to do the prestigious clinical fellowship in spinal deformity surgery at Queen Mary Hospital and Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital, Hong Kong. He got trained in minimally invasive spine surgery at Singapore and Hong Kong. He has visited most of the centers of excellence in spine surgery in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore and USA.
He has practiced spine surgery solely for the last 5 years. He has performed more than 1000 spinal surgeries independently in this time frame successfully. He has had a very successful academic career winning more than 25 medals and awards at national and international level and also has more than 20 international publications in indexed journals as of March 2009.
He has authored numerous chapters in textbooks and also E-Medicine. He is the editor for two international indexed journals and reviewer for numerous journals. In 2006, he won the ISCA Young Scientist Award from the then President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He is the fifth Indian Spine Surgeon and first and only one from Karnataka to have been awarded the membership of Scoliosis 必威体育betway888 Society of USA. He also received the ISSLS Best Basic Science Award 2010 from the President of ISSLS, Prof Gunnar Anderson of Rush University, USA at its annual meeting at Auckland, New Zealand on 16th April, 2010.