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Education:
M.B.B.S-1989
D.Ortho 1994
MS (Ortho) 1995
DNB (Ortho) 1995
MNAMS 1996
Work and Training
- 2007 Onwards working as Associate Professor of
Orthopaedics Medical College Calicut.
- 2001-2007 Worked as Asst Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics,
Medical College, Calicut.
- 2000-2001: Asst professor, Dept of Orthopaedics, Medical
College, Trivandrum
- 1996-2000: Senior Lecturer, Dept of Orthopaedics, Medical
College, Calicut
- 1995-1996: Orthopaedic Surgeon, Modern Multispeciality
Hospital, Kannur.
- 1992-1995: Resident trainee, Dept of Orthopaedics, Medical
College, Calicut
Publications:
1: Multicentric epithelioid angiosarcoma
of the spine: a case report of a rare bone tumor.
Spine J. 2007 Nov-Dec;7(6):716-9. Epub
2006 Dec 22.
PMID: 17998131 [PubMed - in process]
2:Osteoarthritis knee with patellar
fracture in the elderly: single-stage fixation and total knee
arthroplasty.
J Arthroplasty. 2007 Oct;22(7):1070-3.
PMID: 17920484 [PubMed - in process]
3:Morphometry of the proximal tibia to
design the tibial component of total knee arthroplasty for the
Korean population.
Knee. 2007 Aug;14(4):295-300. Epub 2007
Jun 27.
PMID: 17600719 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
4:Synovial chondromatosis of the
posterior cruciate ligament managed by a posterior-posterior
triangulation technique.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc.
2007 Sep;15(9):1121-4. Epub 2007 Feb 28.
PMID: 17333121 [PubMed - in process]
5:Role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha,
interleukin-8, and dexamethasone in the focal adhesion kinase
expression by human nucleus pulposus cells.
Spine. 2007 Jan 1;32(1):30-5.
PMID: 17202889 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
6:Haemorrhagic synovial cyst of the
posterior cruciate ligament: a case report.
Knee. 2007 Jan;14(1):55-8. Epub 2006 Nov
17.
PMID: 17113297 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
7:Anthropometry of the medial tibial
condyle to design the tibial component for unicondylar knee
arthroplasty for the Korean population.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc.
2007 Apr;15(4):436-42. Epub 2006 Sep 9.
PMID: 16964513 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
8.Anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 gene transfection
of human articular chondrocytes protects against nitric
oxide-induced apoptosis.
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2006
Dec;88(12):1660-5.
PMID: 17159184 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE
9. Burkholderia pseudomallei - A rare
cause for septic arthritis-Bone Joint Spine 2007 Aug 21; [Epub
ahead of print]Department of Orthopaedics, Medical College
Calicut, India.
PMID: 17913555 [PubMed - as supplied by
publisher]
Special Interests:
- Expansible spinal cages in PLIF
- Lateral decubitus position in Scoliosis surgery, both in
anterior and posterior approaches.
- Spondylolisthesis reduction in Lateral position
- Presently doing work on Lumbar Segmental Instability,
surgical management.
- Non resurfaced patellae in TKA
- Reverse Hybrid and Hybrid THR
- Indiginous Total elbow replacement
- Noncauterised TKA
- CR and CS Comparison in TKA
- ACL Augmentation in Arthroscopic ACL Reconstruction
- Double Bundle ACL reconstruction
- Bankart lesion repair using Anchor sutures in recurrent
dislocation of Shoulder.
- Revision arthroplasty
- Modified double breasting of anterior capsule in open
reduction of CDH
- Uncemented THA.
- Microlumbar discectomy and minimally invasive lumbar
discectomy
- Lateral Decubitus position in Lumbar dicectomy
- Effect of epidural steroid and spinal manipulation in
chronic low back pain
Achievements
· International faculty at Seoul
KOREA 2007 dyring Korea –Japan ACL symposia. Presented paper on
ACL reconstruction in ASIA
· AO Spine Faculty at Trivandrum
INDIA 2007
· Faculty During the seventh
annual meeting of Asia pacific Arthroplasty meeting 2005 at Goa
–India-presented paper on non-resurfaced patella in TKA
· Faculty During the 8th annual
meeting of Asia pacific Arthroplasty meeting 2006 at Shnaghai
–China- India experience of TKA.
· Prof. P.A.Alexader memorial
Oration Award Winner
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Organizing Chairman, Knee
Arthroplasty course, Calicut 2002
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General convenor CTIC -2003
-1st calicut ortho course
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Convenor CTIC-2004 -2nd calicut
ortho course
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General convenor CTIC-3rd
calicut orthocourse
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Chief editor souvenir KOA 2005
at calicut
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Convenor hands on work shop in
spinal instrumentation Calicut 2003
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Convenor Hip arthroplasty course
calicut 2004
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Convenor COACON 2005 Calicut
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Convenor Arthrocon 2006 Calicut
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Convenor Arthrocon 2007 Calicut
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Chief editor journal of
orthopaedics –online open access journal.www.jortho.org
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Chief editor journal of calicut
ortho alumni association
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Hon’ Secretary Kerala
Orthopaedic Association
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Joint Sec Calicut ortho alumni
association
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Life Member ASSI
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Life Member KOA
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Life Member IOA
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Chaired spine session of Golden
Jubilee con of IOA at Bombay
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Life member Indian Arthroscopy
Society.
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Life member world Orthopaedics
concern
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Faculty AO Spine course INDIA at
Trivandrum 2007
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First prize in quiz
competition, during the COE conducted at KMC Manipal 1993
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Chaired Scientific session in
Basic arthroscopy CME at Kottayam 2005
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Examiner for Undergraduate
students from the year 2000 onwards
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PG , UG and DNB Teacher from
1996 0nwards
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PG and DNB Thesis Guide 2002
onwards
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Charied the K.I.George memorial
oration during the silver jubilee conference of KOA at
Trichur in2006.
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Chaired the silver jubilee
oration at trichur in 2006.
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Invited faculty at CME on
Surgical Techniques on Spine, at Madras Medical College,
Chennai, 2005
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Invited faculty at CME on
instability of spine, at St. John’s Medical College Bangalore,
2006
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Invited faculty - international
Spine CME Bangalore, 2007.
Other
publications
- Accepted for publication an article on focal fibro
cartilagenous dysplsia of proximal tibia in Orthopaedics –a
Medline indexed journal
- Published “current concepts review – Reamed versus
Unreamed nailing in compound fractures of Tibia”, Journal of
Orthopaedics, 2005.
- Published “current concepts review – Soft tissue balancing
during total knee balancing”, in Journal of Orthopaedics,
2004.
- Published literature review on “Surgical exposures in
Primary TKR”, in Journal of Orthopaedics, 2004.
- Published surgical review on “TKR with Tourniquet versus TKR
without Tourniquet” in Journal of Orthopaedics, 2003.
- Published a case report on “Expandable spinal cage in PLIF”,
in Journal of Orthopaedics.
- Published an article on “Jacking up the spine in Lumbar
Segmental Instability – a clinical study”, Journal of
Orthopaedics, 2004.
- Published current concepts review “Patellar resurfacing
versus Non-resurfaced TKR” in Journal of Orthopaedics, 2004.
- Current concepts review on “Discitis”, published in
Journal of Orthopaedics, 2004.
- Current concepts review on “Lumbar Segmental Instability”,
published in Journal of Orthopaedics, 2005
- “Vascular injury in Orthopaedics – a clinical study” –
published in JCOA, 2003.
- “A clinical study on Non-Resurfaced Patella, in TKR”
published in JCOA, 2003
- “Non cauterized TKR – A different technique” published in
CMJ, 2003.
- PLIF in lumbar segmental instability current concepts
Journal of orthopedics 2005
- Aute Neuropatthic Arthropathy Published in Journal of
Orthopaedics -2007
- Exposures In TKA –a review of literature KOA Journal 2005
Presentations:
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Presented a paper on “Expandable
cage in PLIF” during ASSICON-2004.
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Faculty during surgical club
meeting at calicut 2003 –presented paper on Metabolic bone
diseases
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Faculty during the annual
conference Association of Pediatricians-2004 presented topic
on common pediatric hip disorders
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Faculty during the Friday club
of Physcians 2002 presented topic on metabolic joint
disorders
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Faculty during the Friday club
of Physcians 2005 presented topic on clinical examination of
cervical spine.
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Faculty during the pathologist
meeting at calicut 2005 presented topic on Radiology of bone
tumors
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Faculty during the 4th annual
conference of calicut orthoalumni association 2005at calicut
presented talk on implant design considerations- my Views
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Presented topic on clinical
examination of hip joint During the third caliut ortho course
at calicut 2005
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Presented a talk during the
second annual conference of calicut orthoalumni association
2002 at calicut on surgical technique of TKA.
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Presented talk during the 4th
annual conference of calicut orthoalumni association on –I am
for cemented hips.
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Faculty for the CME on Unstable
trochanteric fractures at lourde hospital Ernakulam-Kerala .
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Faculty for IMA meeting 2001 at
Quilandy presented talk on approach to LBP
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Faculty for IMA meeting at
Badagara presented talk on pain management in Orthopedics
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Faculty for the third calicut
ortho course 2005 at calicut presented talk on clinical
examination of spine.
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Faculty for the third calicut
ortho course 2005 at calicut presented talk on Radiology of
bone tumors.
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Faculty during the orthoclub
meeting at Malappuram presented talk on lateral decubitus
position during spine surgeries
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Faculty during orthoclub meeting
at kannur presented talk on scoliosis an approach to treatment
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Faulty of Athrocon 2007
presented paper of Fixed bearing TKA
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Faculty of spinecon 2006 talked
on combined anterior and posterior correction in scoliosis in
single stage.
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Faculty of spine con 2006
talked on short segment stabilizations of unstable spine.
Address for
Communication:
Dr. P Gopinathan,
Tulasi, Post Puthiangady, Calicut – 21, Kerala.
E-Mail:
drpgopinath@yahoo.com
Phone: 0495-2390014 (Res);
094470 59014 (Mob) |
