Professional Background

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Am Dr Surya Prakash!

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Summary:

I am an internationally trained spine surgeon possessing 20 years of extensive experience in all the aspects of spine surgeries for a variety of conditions such as spinal tumours, spinal instability, spinal infections, neurological problems, lumbar disc herniation, and other degenerative spinal diseases.

Being one among the very few spine surgeons in Hyderabad, I perform all the functional spine surgeries to alleviate pain and spasticity. I did more than 5000+ spine surgeries till now, and my work on posterior Hemivertebrectomy in management of neglected congenital scoliosis is appreciated well at the National and International orthopaedic forums.

Medical Designation: Senior Consultant Spine Surgeon MaxCure Hospital, Hyderabad.

Highest Qualification: M.S., DNB (Ortho)(BOM)

Academic Exposure:

• M.S. (Orthopaedics) from Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, – 1993-1996
• DNB (Orthopaedics) from National Board of examinations, New Delhi – 1997
• Dip (Orthopaedics) from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mumbai – 1996
• MBBS from Jawaharlal institute of postgraduate medical research and education (JIPMER) Pondicherry) – 1987-1992

Professional Background

• Working as a Consultant Spine Surgeon in the Spine Surgery Department, Maxcure Hospitals, Hyderabad – Aug-2015 to till date
• Worked as Consultant Spine Surgeon in the Spine Surgery Department, Kamineni hospitals, King Koti, Hyderabad – Dec-2009 to July-2015
• Worked as Consultant Spine Surgeon in the Spine Surgery Department, Wockhardt hospitals, Hyderabad – Aug-2007 to Dec-2009
• Worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, NIMS, Hyderabad from Jan-2003 to July-2007
• Worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, NIMS, Hyderabad – Feb-2000 to Jan-2003
• Worked as a Senior Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, NIMS, Hyderabad- Jul-1997- Jan-2000
• Worked as a Senior Registrar, Municipal hospitals, Mumbai – Jul-1996 to Jul-1997

Expertise: Management of congenital kyphoscoliosis.

Experience:

• A.O. Fellowship, University of Freiburg, (Germany) – Jan & Feb 2004
• GICD fellowship in Spine (France) – June & July 2005
• SRS (Scoliosis research society ) Scholarship (U.S.) – Sep 2006

Specialities:

My professional focus is in the area of multidisciplinary, integrative, and conventional spine care. My training has included.

• Spinal Fracture Fixations and Reconstruction
• Complex Spine Surgery
• Robotic guided Spinal Pain Procedures and Injection
• Spinal Cord Tumor Surgery
• Anterior cervical fusion
• Posterior cervical fusion
• Cervical Myelopathy
• Scoliosis correction
• Kyphosis correction
• Minimally invasive spine surgeries
• Micro Lumbar disc surgeries
• Lumbar Stenosis surgery
• Micro Lumbar Decompression
• Failed Back Surgery
• Revision Spine Surgery
• Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty

Awards And Honors:

• Distinctions in Biochemistry, Anatomy and Pathology examinations at JIPMER Medical college
• Secured First Prize in Radiology exam at JIPMER Medical college in the year 1992 College Round Winner of Indian Association of Pediatrics (IAP) Quiz Competition at JIPMER, Pondicherry – 1992
  Recipient of P.G. Merit Scholarship from the University of Bombay.
• Secured highest marks and passed the Diploma of Orthopaedics examinations in April 1996 held by the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Bombay
• Recipient of Wockhardt –spine fellowship from Bombay Orthopaedic Society 2000.
• A.O. Fellowship at the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology University of Freiburg, Germany with Prof. N.Sudkamp.
• Recipient of ASSI-Depuy Spine Travelling fellowship – 2004
• Recipient of GICD – Spine fellowship
• Dr Syryaprakash Rao Attended a 41st annual conference of Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), Monterey, California.U.S.
  Visited four centres in France in June –July 2005 and other centres in Delhi and Mumbai in Jan –Feb 2005
• Received ‘VYAGRESHWARUDU GOLD MEDAL’ for the best paper in the State chapter of IOACON in Guntur in October 2005
• Won Gold Medal for the best writing in the Surgical treatment of Spinal ailments as ISSICON at Delhi in March 2006
• Recipient of Global outreach educational scholarship – 2006
• First orthopaedic surgeon awarded the international fellowship of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) in 2007 and Active association in the society in 2013.
• Received ‘Vaidya Shiromani Award ‘ from Prof Kakarla Subba Rao on 30-6-2013 instituted by Megacity Navakala vedika, Hyderabad

Special Training:

• A.O. Spine Chairman course 2017
• A.O. Spine Faculty training (T4T) 2010
• Attended and completed the Carl Zeiss Microscopy training course(Ganga Microscopy course at Coimbatore in the first week of July 2009 in the area of spinal microscopy
• Specialised training with Professor Jurgen Harms from Germany at the Harms’s Master class where was conducted at his institute Langenstein Karslabad in last week of April 2009

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Active fellow of the SRS (scoliosis research society)
• Very early members of A.O. spine India and Now a National Faculty at A.O. Spine.
• Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA)
• A.P. Chapter and Telangana chapters of Indian Orthopaedic association
• Orthopaedic Association of south Indian states (OASIS)
• Bombay Orthopaedic Society (BOS)
• Twin Cities Orthopaedic society (past executive member)
• Twin cities spine society of Hyderabad (Secretary)
• Executive member of Association of spine surgeons of India (ASSI)

Available Timings:

Medicover Hospitals Secretariat (Formerly MaxCure Hospitals)

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Email at: vsprao@aol.in
Call at: +91 9848024699