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He was also instrumental in the evolution of ‘Ganga Hospital Open Injury Severity Score’ which guides critical decisions in saving and reconstructing severely injured limbs. Dr Rajasekaran has 220 publications in international journals, 46 national publications and  428 international and 495 national presentations. He has also contributed 57 chapters in international books and is the Chief Editor of a Video Atlas of Spine Surgery and the ASSI Textbook on Spinal Infections & Trauma.","image":"5931617359061.webp","designation_type":"0","s_names":"Trauma & Spine Surgery","speciality_id":1,"certifications":null,"memberships":"Past President- Indian Orthopaedic Association,President- Association of Spine Surgeons of India,Chair- AOSPine International Board,Past President- SICOT,Past Chair- AOSpine International Res","is_active":1,"cv":null,"category":"1","meta_title":null,"meta_keyword":"01","meta_description":null,"custom_url":"dr-s-rajasekaran","modify_by":"01","modify_ip":"157.49.217.182","created_at":"2019-06-06T00:35:51.000Z","updated_at":"2021-08-09T06:11:43.000Z","mobile":null,"email":null,"hl_id":119,"title_headings":"One of the leading spine surgeons in Asia,Adjunct professor- Tamil Nadu Dr  MGR Medical  University,Received the Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons"},"doc_edu":[{"qualification":"FRCS(Hon)","institution":"Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh","year_completed":"2009"},{"qualification":"FACS","institution":"American College of Surgeons, USA","year_completed":"2006"},{"qualification":"PhD (Spine Surgery)","institution":"Tamilnadu Medical University","year_completed":"2000"},{"qualification":"MCh(Orthopaedic Surgery)","institution":"University of Liverpool, UK","year_completed":"1990"},{"qualification":"FRCS","institution":"Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh","year_completed":"1989"},{"qualification":"MS (Orthopaedic Surgery)","institution":"Madras Medical College, Chennai","year_completed":"1987"},{"qualification":"DNB","institution":"National Board of Examinations, New Delhi","year_completed":"1987"},{"qualification":"D Ortho","institution":"Madras Medical Collage, Chennai","year_completed":"1984"},{"qualification":"MBBS","institution":"University of Madras","year_completed":"1980"}],"speclist":[{"id":5,"name":"Trauma","custom_url":"trauma-and-accident-surgery"},{"id":6,"name":"Spine Surgery","custom_url":"spine-surgery"},{"id":10,"name":"Arthroplasty","custom_url":"joint-replacement-surgery"},{"id":65,"name":"Ortho oncology","custom_url":"musculoskeletal-oncology"}],"awards":[{"id":483,"award_name":"Honorary Fellow's","image":"1248343625.webp","description":"Dr Rajasekaran was awarded the Honorary Fellow of the IOA in the recently conducted meeting in Lucknow which is one of the highest honours awarded by the Indian Orthopaedic Association.  He also delivered a 'Honorary Fellow's ' Lecture on 'Avoiding and Managing Failures'.","speciality_id":1},{"id":451,"award_name":"IOACON, 2022 GOA 'A A Mehta Gold Medal’ - Dr Dharanikumar","image":"1189281152.avif","description":"IOACON, 2022 GOA 'A A Mehta Gold Medal’ - Dr Dharanikumar\r\nTopic: Midterm followup of functional and radiological outcomes of \r\ncalcaneal fractures treated by sinus tarsi pinning and lateral extensive \r\nplating - a prospective RCT","speciality_id":1},{"id":478,"award_name":"QIMPRO Awards 2022 - Gold Standards - Dr Rajasekaran","image":"657258408.avif","description":"QIMPRO Awards 2022 - Gold Standards\r\nDr Rajasekaran received the Qimpro Gold Standards 2022 for Healthcare Category on 19th November at The Jade Ball Room, Nehru Centre in Mumbai. It was attended by over 200 dignitaries and leaders from the Business, Healthcare, Education and Environment circles, which included past judges and past winner.\r\nRecognized as the country's premier quality citations, Qimpro Awards were conceptualized in 1989 by Dr J M Juran - the Quality Guru who catalyzed the quality revolution in Japan, post World War II. Dr Juran believed that for a quality revolution in India, we need to recognize individual excellence in quality management. He also believed that a national quality culture can be seeded by focusing on Quality in Healthcare and Quality in Education.\r\n\r\nOver the past three decades, Qimpro Awards have evolved. Qimpro Foundation currently recognizes Quality Statesmen with the Qimpro Platinum Standard, and Quality Leaders with the Qimpro Gold Standard - in Business, Healthcare, Education and Environment. The winners are selected by four eminent Panels of Judges; each Chaired by the respective Qimpro Platinum Standard of the previous year.","speciality_id":1}],"award_oration_nat":[{"id":384,"award_name":"BSS (Bombay Spine Society) Oration,  Annual Conference of Bombay Spine Society (BSSCON) 2020,  20th December 2020","image":"","speciality_id":1},{"id":387,"award_name":"Dr K P Srivastava Oration,  44th Annual Conference  of UP Orthopaedic Association 2020, Lucknow,  15-16 February 2020","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":386,"award_name":"Dr D Subbarayan Oration,  Virtual CME on Robotic Surgery (16th Anniversary Celebration of SPOT Hospital, Chennai) , 20th September 2020","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":385,"award_name":"GARC (Ganga Anaesthesia Refresher Course)  2020 Virtual conference,  12th December 2020","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":390,"award_name":"Prof. S.S.K. Marthandam  Endowment  9th Oration,  SCORE 2019, Sri Ramachandra  Institute of Higher Education & Research Chennai, 1st February 2019","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":389,"award_name":"Bombay Memorial Oration,  7th Annual Bombay Orthopaedic Course (BOSC 2019) , 28 - 30 June 2019, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":388,"award_name":"KM Yusuf Memorial Oration,  CAPSON (Coimbatore Association of Pediatric Surgeons) 2019, July 13, PSG IMS&R, Coimbatore","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":252,"award_name":"Platinum Jubilee Oration : Platinum Jubilee Oration 2018,","image":"91941618203661.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":215,"award_name":"“Presidential Guest Lecture on - Road Safety” 63rd Annual Conference of The Indian Orthopaedic Association, Coimbatore.","image":"23821617883136.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":391,"award_name":"Prof A Devadoss Oration,  Vellamal Medical College and Hospital Research Institute, Madurai,  Nov 4, 2016","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":217,"award_name":"Dr. Sudhakar Shetty Memorial Oration 2016,  Mangalore","image":"3431617883927.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":216,"award_name":"Prof.Kalkarao oration : Kakarla Subbarao  Radiological Educational \tSciences Trust  & Imaging (KREST), 2016, Hyderabad","image":"58291617883557.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":397,"award_name":"Prof M Natarajan Oration -  47th Annual Conference of Tamilnadu Orthopaedic Association (TNOACON 2014) Conference,  Chettinad Health City, Kelambakkam, Chennai, Feb 7-9","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":395,"award_name":"Dr Dinubhai Patel Oration  Annual Meeting of the Spine Association of Gujarat, Hotel Inder Residency, Opp. Gujarat College, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, 20th April 2014,.","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":394,"award_name":"The Childs Trust Medical Research Foundation(CTMRF) and XXIII Dr M S Ramakrishnan Memorial Endowment Oration,  Chennai, 4 May 2014","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":393,"award_name":"Dr MJ Joshi- IMA Bushan Puraskar Ceremony, CME on Pain Management, 20 July 2014, Pune","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":392,"award_name":"Prof T K Shanmugasundaram Endowment Oration,  Chennai, 8th August 2014","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":402,"award_name":"Kini Memorial Oration - 58th Annual Conference of IOACON 2013 (Indian Orthopaedic Association Conference) Agra, December, 2013","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":401,"award_name":"Presidential Address - 26th Annual Conference of ASSICON (Association of Spine Surgeons of India)  Jan 17-20, 2013, Hotel Le Meridian, Kochi, Kerala","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":400,"award_name":"Dr Vyaghreswarudu Memorial Oration - 42nd Annual Conference of OSSAPCON (Orthopaedic Surgeons Society of Andhra Pradesh)  March 2013  Warangal, 2013, NRI Alumni Education Centre, Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":399,"award_name":"Professor Marthandam Memorial Oration - 12TH Annua2","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":398,"award_name":"15th Sivasubramaniam Oration - Meeting of Indian Academy of Pediatrics Coimbatore Branch, Rathna Residency, Coimbatore, Dec 29, 2013","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":404,"award_name":"PT Rao Oration - 36th Annual Conference of Odisha Orthopaedic Association(OOACON 2012) Great Valley Club, MCL Talcher,  14th to 15th January 2012","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":403,"award_name":"Presidential Oration - Annual Conference of Association of Spine Surgeons of India  (ASSICON) 2012, Hotel Le Meridian, Windsor Place,  New Delhi, 23-26 February 2012","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":405,"award_name":"Presidential Oration - Silver Jubilee Annual Meeting of the Association of  Spine Surgeons of India. 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Devadas Annual Oration, 2007","image":"3191619067879.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":336,"award_name":"Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr S Rangachari Research  Endowment Oration, ASICON 2007, Bhubaneswar, 28 Dec 2007","image":"29501619000461.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":381,"award_name":"Prof Einhorn’s Oration, Coimbatore, Feb 27th 2005","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":380,"award_name":"Prof C Vyageswarudu Oration, 35th AP.IOA. (Andhra Pradesh Orthopaedic Association) Conference, Guntur,22-23 October 2005","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":348,"award_name":"Prof C Vyageswarudu  Oration 2005, Andhrapradesh Orthopaedic Association Conference","image":"88271619075262.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":379,"award_name":"Silver Jubilee Oration, IOACON 2003, Chennai","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":378,"award_name":"Dr M S Ramakrishnan Endowment Memorial Oration Chennai 4 May 2003","image":null,"speciality_id":1},{"id":359,"award_name":"A K Talwalker Oration, Maharashtra Orthopaedic Association - 1999","image":null,"speciality_id":1}],"awards1":[{"id":429,"award_name":"‘Harold Tscherene Teaching' Award - Dr S Rajasekaran","image":"556044339.webp","description":"The award is named in honour of eminent Prof. Harald Tscherene, Germany who contributed immensely by evolving concepts in management of limb injuries. In the last 20 years, the award has been given only to six eminent surgeons from different parts of the world who have contributed by their original and innovative techniques or concepts which has radically changed and improved the treatment of severely injured patients. Dr S Rajasekaran was awarded this prestigious award for devising ‘Ganga Hospital open injury score’. He is the first person to be nominated and elected from the whole of Asia Pacific region to this prestigious position. While, all the previous Chairs hail from North America and Europe.","speciality_id":1},{"id":437,"award_name":"APSS Best Clinical Research Award 2022  (Asia Pacific Spine Society ) - Dr. Karthik R","image":"1457515032.avif","description":"APSS Best Clinical Research Award 2022 \r\n(Asia Pacific Spine Society )\r\n- Dr. Karthik R\r\nPre-emptive Analgesia through Erector Spinae Plane Block in \r\nPosterior Cervical Spine Surgery- A Prospective Randomized \r\nControlled Study","speciality_id":1},{"id":415,"award_name":"ISSLS Basic Science Best Podium Paper  Award 2021","image":"54721622805988.webp","description":"Spine and Radiology Unit of Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore has got the unique distinction of winning the \r\nBest Podium Scientific Research Paper Award in both categories of “Basic Science” and “Clinical Science”\r\nin ISSLS 2021.  ISSLS Basic Science Best Podium Paper 2021\r\nTopic: Human Lumbar Discs are not sterile! - Defining the Normal Intervertebral Disc Microbiome.\r\n\r\nS Rajasekaran, Soundararajan Dilip Chand Raja, Tangavel Chitraa, Nayagam Sharon Miracle, Muthurajan Raveendran, Matchado Monica Steffi, K S Vijayanand","speciality_id":1}],"award_oration_inter":[{"id":373,"award_name":"BOSCON Oration, 32nd Annual Scientific Congress (BOSCON 2019), Bangladesh Orthopaedic Society Conference, Dhaka, 3-5 February 2019","image":"38441619432346.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":371,"award_name":"Prof Duthie Oration, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, UK. Oxford meeting – Duthie Day, 2018, Oxford, UK, 8-10 Nov","image":"79641619431187.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":377,"award_name":"SICOT Plenary Oration 2017, 38th SICOT Orthopaedic World Congress, 30th November to 2nd December 2017, Cape Town, South Africa","image":"35851619433605.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":372,"award_name":"Lister Oration, 31st Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium & Instructional Trauma Course, 14th to 18th August 2017, Edinburgh, UK","image":"51131619431986.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":254,"award_name":"Pesi B Chacha Oration, University Orthopaedics, Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery Cluster, Singapore, 2017","image":"48021618205672.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":374,"award_name":"APOA Plenary Oration 2016, 19th APOA Melbourne Congress, Mar, 29 – Apr 1, 2016","image":"19171619432726.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":368,"award_name":"ISSLS Presidential Oration, SpineWeek 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 28- 1st June, 2012","image":"61431619501152.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":367,"award_name":"Hunterian Oration 2011, Combined Congress of the British and Irish Orthopaedic Association, Dublin, Ireland – Sep 13 to 15, 2011","image":"18071619430164.webp","speciality_id":1},{"id":375,"award_name":"Asia Pacific Guest Lecture Oration 2010, 70th Australian Orthopaedic Association Scientific Meeting , Adelaide, South Australia, 10-15 October 2010","image":"35961619432987.webp","speciality_id":1}]}