Dr. Kunal Shah

Dr. Kunal Shah

TRAINING DURING RESIDENCY

During the course of my 3 year Orthopaedic Residency in Sancheti hospital,pune  from 2010 – 2013, I was posted in the spinal unit for one year (under Dr. ketan khurjekar and shailesh hadgaonkar) . The spinal unit was one of the largest referral centre from all over maharastra. I had good exposure in all fields of Orthopaedic surgery, but being in the spine unit I had an added advantage of dealing with the all the spine cases which were referred to our centre . Therefore, I had graded exposure to all the spinal problems presenting to us.

A very large section of our patients presented with problems pertaining to spinal neurology as well as structural disorganization of the spine, requiring both, decompression and reconstruction.

Problems dealt with included:

1. Tuberculosis and other infections- especially in difficult regions, CVJ, multi-level disease and

disease with kyphosis.

2. Degenerative: Cervical myelo/radiculopathy, degenerative low back problems.

4. Spinal trauma

5. CV pathologies.

This spectrum of pathology provided a good initial exposure to varied spectrum of the spinal pathologies and the use of various types and generations of spinal instrumentation systems.

TRAINING POST RESIDENCY

Spine foundation Fellowship (feb 2014 –feb 2015) – 

I joined Dr. Abhay Nene, leading spine surgeon in Mumbai, as an fellow at Hinduja Heathcare Surgicals Khar, Wockhardt Hospital Mumbai Central and Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. I had a chance to increase the depth of my knowledge. The major proportion of the work was degenerative, tumours and infections. My responsibilities currently are clinical and research oriented. My responsibilities involve dealing with patients in independent spine OPDs and also involve planning and performing various spine surgeries. We had  an excellent teaching schedule with Dr Shekhar Bhojraj, Dr Ram Chaddha and Dr Samir Dalvie  who are of international fame leave no stone unturned for theoretical and practical training.

Minimally invasive spine Fellowship, Texas,USA (april-june 2016) – During my Spine Fellowship in College station, Texas, I was attached to College Station Medical Centre and The Physicians Centre I was mentored by Dr. Mukund Gundanna who is a renowned spine surgeon in south Texas.  I had an opportunity to attend various speciality clinics like scoliosis clinic and understand their view point on management of complex cases. I had an opportunity to scrub in to see good number of operative cases during my two month stay ranging from minimally invasive spine surgeries including endoscopic discectomies, MIS TLIF, LLIF, ALIF, percutaneous lumbar and cervical facet fixations, cervical TDR, interspinous devices, MIS sacroiliac fixations etc and revision surgeries.

ASSI travelling fellowship 2016

During my three weeks travel, I visited Ganga hospital Coimbatore under Dr Rajasekaran, Apollo hospital Chennai under Dr Sajan Hedge and Park clinic Kolkata under Dr Saumyajit Basu. Here I saw advanced spine armamentarium like robotic spine surgery, CT guided navigation systems and Neuromonitoring systems. Research experience

Editorial experience 

1) Associate editor of “Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports” (www.jocr.co.in) ( pubmed indexed).