Professional Profile

• Fellow in Spine Surgery- 01-10-2001 to 31-12-2001 – Schulthess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Clinical Fellow in Spine Surgery- from 01-01-2002 to 30-06-2002 in Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Specialist in Spine Surgery from 01-07-2002 till Jan 2005- in Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• Fellow in Spine Surgery from Feb 2005 to April 2005 in Magdeburg University Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany.
• From May 2005 till November 2012 worked as a consultant spine surgeon at Global Hospitals, Hyderabad, A.P, and India.
• Worked as a Consultant and Director Spine surgeon at Sunshine hospitals,Secunderabad,A.P.,India
• Currently working as Consultant & Spine Surgeon at STAR Hospitals
• Awarded “ETHIRAJULU MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL” for having stood first in Master of Surgery Degree in Orthopedics among the candidates of Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences.
• Won a “GOLD MEDAL” for the best paper presented “ROLE OF EXTERNAL FIXATORS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HAND INJURIES” in Guntur at Andhra Pradesh state Meeting of Indian Orthopedic Association.
• Won a “JAIPUR VIKRAM DEV VARMA GOLD MEDAL” In medicine for having achieved highest marks in internal medicine in M.B.B.S among the candidates of Andhra University.
• Won a “GOLD MEDAL” for having stood first in the subject of internal medicine in a competitive examination conducted by Andhra Medical College.
• Won a “GOLD MEDAL” for having stood first in the subject of pediatric medicine in a competitive examination conducted by Andhra Medical College.
• Won a “GOLD MEDAL” for having stood first in the subject of Neuromedicine in a competitive examination conducted by Andhra Medical College.
• Won a “GOLD MEDAL” in the subject of Microbiology for having achieved highest marks in internal medicine in M.B.B.S among the candidates of Andhra University.
• Best Outgoing student of Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam
• Stood first in a quiz contest conducted by Indian Academy of Pediatrics, conducted at National level.
• Received certificate of commendation by the district collector, Guntur for having efficiently served major train accident near Guntur ,victims in the year 1997.
• Member of Scientific Committee for Andhra Pradesh Chapter of Indian Orthopedic Association.
• IGASS (International Group for Advances in Spinal Sciences) Fellowship at Institute Calot,Berck Sur Mer,France in 2011.
• IGASS (International Group for Advances in Spinal Sciences) Fellowship at Centre des Masseus,Lyon,France,2012.
• Fellowship at St.Vincent Hospital,Seoul,South Korea in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in 2012.
• Best doctor award in 2012 by “Health care International in 2011
• Best doctor award in 2013 by Hi9 doctors awards by Honble Justice A.P.High Court,Nagarjuna Reddy.
• Profiled in the book titled “Life Savers” – Book profiling the top doctors in the united state of Andhra Pradesh – Felicitated by Honorable Ministers Dr. Chiranjeevi, Dr.Geetha Reddy.
• Life time Achievement Award in the field of health sciences by Potti Sriramulu Telugu University in the year 2012.- Felicitated by Honorable Chairman A P Legislative Council – SrI Chakrapani.
• Felicitated by Delhi Telugu Academy in the year 2014 for outstanding contribution in the field of Medicine – Felicitated by Honorable Ministers Sri Ponnala Laxmaiah and Sri Kasu Krishna Reddy , SrI Mohan Kanda IAS, Dr.D.Rama Naidu.
• Honorary professor at ILS (Institute of Life Sciences), University of Hyderabad.
• Advisory Board Member of Medtronic Inc.,Memphis,USA.
• Advisory Board Member of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals,USA.
• Advisory Board Member of Novartis Pharma,Switzerland.
• Conferred the title Master in spine surgery by AO international,Davos,Switzerland.
• Chairman of SMART (Sunshine Medical Academy for Research and Training)
• Member secretary Institutional ethical committee,Sunshine hospitals,Hyderabad
• Honorary life time faculty at the cadaveric lab, MS Ramaiah Medical College,Bengaluru
• Introduced various new technologies in spine surgery for the first time in the united state of Andhra Pradesh.
• First Kyphoplasty (procedure to correct osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures of the spine) in the state of AP
• First Lumbar disc replacement in the state of AP
• First 5 level Kyphoplasty in AP
• First 3 level cervical disc replacement in the state of AP
• First spinal cord stimulation in South India
• First AxiaLIF in India
• First Nucleus replacement in South Asia
• First stem cell transplantation into the human spinal cord in India>
• First minimally invasive fixation of spinal fractures in AP
• First MidLIF in India
• Highest number of dynamic spinal stabilizations and has been a member in the International study group for dynamic spinal stabilisation
• Sunshine spine center was recognized by Academia,Memphis,USA as the center of excellence in Kyphoplasty for the first time in South Asia
• Has been actively involved in Basic Research concerning.
• Pathophysiology of disc problems.
• Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury.
• Drug delivery into the epidural space.
• To create low cost bone forming protein (Awarded a research grant of rs.50 lakhs,by BIRAC,DBT,Govt.of India).
• Natural compound discovery.
• Epigenetic changes in various spinal disorders.
• Pathophysiology of Osteoarthritis of the knee.
• Electron Microscopic study of various spinal diseases and mitochondrial genetics.
• Drug discovery for post op pain management.
• Understanding neuropathic pain.
• 3-D bioprinting in regenerative medicine.
• Collaboration with various premier institutes like CCMB,Hyderabad, IICT,Hyderabad, JNTU,Hyderabad.
• Guide for DNB (Orthopedics) students.
• Has been a Speaker and Faculty and Trainer at various National and International Spine conferences, Courses.
• Conducted 1000s of Free Medical Camps and served people all over India.
• Conducted awareness programmes to Teachers in both private and public sector schools for early detection of Spinal deformities in Children –“Scoliosis”.
• 100s of Awareness programmes conducted both in Electronic Media and 100s  of articles published in Print Media.