Dr. Suresh Gopalan

OP Timing:

Education / Qualifications:

• April 2022: PGDHHM, Indira Gandhi National Open University
• Nov 2011: FRCS (Orth)  Royal College of Surgeons, England
• Jul 2005: MRCS (ED) Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
• Sep 2000: Diploma in Orthopedics, Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India                                                 
• May 1996: MBBS, Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India

Experience:

• 01/11/2018 to till date: Medical Superintendent and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with Special interest in Shoulder & Knee in KIMS Avitis Super Specialty Hospital, Nemmara, Palakkad, Kerala.
• Apr 2016-Oct 2018:- HOD & Senior Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Trauma & Orthopaedic, St Thomas Hospital, Changanassery, Kerala.
• Jul 2013-Mar 2016:- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Sparsh Hospital, Bangalore
• Aug 2008-Jun 2013:- Specialty Doctor, Trauma & Orthopaedics, City & Sandwell Hopital, Birmingham, UK
• Aug 2007-Jul 2008, Clinical Research Fellow, Orthopaedics, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
• Sep 2006- Jul 2007, Clinical Fellow, Trauma & Orthopaedics, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, UK
• Feb 2006- Aug 2006, Clinical Fellow, Plastic Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, BIrmingham, UK
• Aug 2005- Jan 2006, Senior House Officer, Orthopaedics, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
• Aug 2004-Jul 2005, Senior House Officer, Trauma & Orthopaedics, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
• Mar2003-Jul 2004, Senior House Officer, Trauma & Orthopaedics, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK.
• Jul 2002-Nov 2002, Senior House Officer, Plastic Surgery, St John’s Hospital, Bangalore, India.
• Nov2000- June 2002, Junior Orthopaedic Consultant, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Royal Hospital, Kunnamkulam, Kerala, India
• Oct 1998-Sep 2000, Post graduate Training, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India.
• Jan 1998- Jun 1998, Resident Medical Officer, Gen Medicine & Surgery, Shankar Hospital, Kerala, India.
• Jan 1998- Jun 1998, Resident Medical Officer, Gen Medicine & Surgery, Shankar Hospital, Kerala, India
• Jan 1997-Dec1997, Senior House Officer, Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wockhardt Hospital, Bangalore, India.
• May 1995- May 1996, Pre –registration House Officer, Varied specialties, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore India.

Expertise:

Arthroplasty: 

• Total knee Replacement & Revision Total Hip Replacement in Arthroplasty
• Total Hip replacement, 
• Total/Reverse shoulder replacement

Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine:

• ACL reconstruction, PCL repair/reconstruction 
• shoulder stabilisation, 
• Rotator cuff repair

Area of Interest:

• Basic & Complex Trauma procedures-both upper and lower limp
• Paediatric Trauma

Publications:

• Ulnar collateral ligament injury of the thumb in the skeletally immature- an easy injury to miss 
• Gopalan SA, Dias R, Chugh S Journal of orthopaedics 2006:3(4)e25.
• Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in the treatment of tibial non-union, Joshy S, Gopalan SA, Deshmukh S
• European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology 17(4):363-36

Memberships:

• IMA: Indian Medical Association
• General Medical Council (UK)
• IOA-Indian Orthopaedic Association
• SESI Kerala Chapter (Shoulder Elbow Society India).