PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM VITAE

Name Dr. Skand Kumar
Address Medwin Hospitals, Abids, Hyderabad, India - 500001
E-mail skandkumar@gmail.com
Telephone +91-9948855488
Age 35 years

Medical Registration (India) 39048 (UP) 55376 (AP)
UK Medical Registration GMC Full Registration (No. 6025150).
Medical Indemnity membership IMA – AP – H1/0570/04888/2006, 11750

Professional Qualifications

MBBS Banaras Hindu University, India (January1994).
MS (Orthopaedics) Banaras Hindu University, India (December 1997).
PLAB General Medical Council, U.K. (June 2002).
ATLS Birmingham City Hospital (June 2003).
MRCS (Ed) The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (June 2004)

Awards

Certificate of distinction in Biochemistry during M.B.B.S. (1991).
University merit scholarships awarded during M.B.B.S. (1991-94)
Best poster award at 21st UPIOA Conference, Jhansi, India (1997).

Current appointments

Consultant Orthopaedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon, Medwin Hospitals, Hyderabad, India.

Career plan

I am working as Consultant Joint Replacement & Orthopaedic Surgeon. I have wide experience in Primary & Revision surgeries of Hip & Knee joints, expertise in dealing with complex trauma surgery, lower limb reconstruction surgeries besides routine Orthopaedic surgery.

I completed almost six year long stint in United Kingdom. I underwent extensive training and exposure in performing Primary, Revision and complex Joint Replacements of knee and hip. I did Fellowships at internationally distinguished centres of excellence at Oxford, Brighton, Manchester and London. I have been an active participant in wide variety of Joint Replacements courses and workshops in UK such as Birmingham Hip Resurfacing, cemented and cementless revisions, allografting techniques, recent advances in joint replacements and computer navigated surgery.

I have been principal investigator for audits & projects and have been writing papers and presenting them. I am undertaking various educational and teaching programmes on Orthopaedic topics and ATLS – Acute Trauma Support for the hospital doctors, casualty department and nursing staff members. I am also leading the project on Joint Replacement Centre in my hospital.

Publications

• ‘Are drains required following routine total joint arthroplasty' paper published in International Orthopaedics Journal 2006, October Vol 11.
• ‘Counselling in digital nerve injuries of hand (accepted for publication in Archives of Orthopedics & Trauma Surgery – Medline indexed journal )
• ‘Surgical treatment of painful acromioclavicular dislocations' (accepted for publication in Archives of Orthopedics & Trauma Surgery – Medline indexed journal )
• ‘ Can radiological results be surrogate marker of functional outcome in distal radius fractures?' (accepted for publication in International Orthopaedics - Medline indexed journal ) .
• How many clinic visits does it take to treat distal radial fractures?' paper accepted for publication in International Orthopaedics - Medline indexed journal, November 2006.
• Letter (16.06.03) for Orthopaedic Surgery. BMJ Career Focus 2006; 332 :229-230
• Correspondence published (06.03.06) on The management of avascular necrosis after slipped capital femoral epiphysis. J Bone Joint Surg 2005; 87-B: 1669-74
• Correspondence published (15.06.05) on Triple arthrodesis: is bonegrafting necessary?: The results in 100 consecutive cases. J Bone Joint Surg 2005; 87-B: 175-8
• Role of Suction drains in Primary total joint arthroplasty (abstract). Kumar S , Penematsa SR , Parekh S . J Bone Joint Surg; 88-B: Supp II, 243.
• Rhabdomyosarcoma presenting as a calf pyomyositis (Case report). Kumar S, Chougle A, Meadows TH. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics B, 2005; 14: 226-227.
• Should patients with some features of digital nerve injuries be explored? Kumar S, Penematsa SR, Shewring D. The Surgeon 2005; 03(3): S47 .
• Does radiological result represent the expected functional outcome in distal radial fractures? Kumar S, Sadri M, Penematsa SR, Deshmukh SC. The Surgeon 2005; 03(3): S11.
• Colles' fracture; a week later . Kumar S , Sadri M , Deshmukh S, Ansari MZ. Journal of Emergency Medicine 2004; 26(4): 476.

Podium presentations

• ‘ Modified Weaver-Dunn procedure for chronic painful acromioclavicular joint dislocations' 7 th European Trauma Congress, Slovenia, 2006.
• ‘Exploration of digital nerve injuries ', XVII Combined congress of SECMA-BSSH, Spain, 2005.
• ‘Functional evaluation of distal radial fractures ', XVII Combined congress of SECMA-BSSH, Spain, 2005.
• ‘Failure rate of distal radius fracture reduction performed in A & E department, 6 th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, Netherlands, 2004.
• ‘Evaluation of results of Talar neck fractures' , 6 th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, Netherlands, 2004.
• ‘Inter-hospital Transfers of Spinal injury patients', Annual Meeting of British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine – Scottish chapter, Edinburgh, 2003.
• ‘Analgesia for reduction of Colles' fractures', 2 nd Mediterranean Emergency Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.
• ‘Colles' fracture; a week later', 2 nd Mediterranean Emergency Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.
• ‘Early prediction of fracture healing by ultrasonography in operated femoral fractures', 16th North Zone Orthopaedic Conference, New Delhi, India, 1997.

Audits and Projects

Courses attended in last 6 years

Conferences attended

Posters presented

Research thesis

Work in progress

Professional Experience (UK & India)

Orthopaedics & Trauma:

I have been conducting clinics, on-call duties, supervise in-patient care, arrange multidisciplinary referrals, consent and work as a team. I have been trained in reduction of fractures & dislocations, joint injections, plaster application, surgical procedures such as excision biopsies, implant removal and plastic surgical procedures.

I have been performing surgical procedures such as DHS, hip hemi-arthroplasty, ankle fixation, K-wiring, general Orthopaedic procedures and tension band wiring. I perform and train resident doctors in IM nailing, plating, arthroscopy, corrective osteotomies, amputations, joint arthroplasties, revision arthroplasties, limb reconstruction and spine surgeries.

Accident & Emergency:

I was a Team l eader in ‘The Resuscitation room' and managed life threatening emergencies such as poly-trauma, cardiac arrest, MI, respiratory failure.

Apart from the duties of casualty officer, I managed difficult situations such as agitated patients and breaking bad news.

Spinal injuries and Intensive care unit:

I was involved daily clinical assessment and management of spinal patients in the Intensive care unit, the High dependency unit and the rehabilitation wards.

I transported Spinal injury patients to other hospitals and to Dublin with Shock transfer team in Air-ambulance. I participated in specialised spinal clinics and in Spinal surgery.

Paediatric General and Orthopaedic surgery:

I participated in clinics, clinical care and performed procedures, under supervision, in Paediatric Orthopaedic theatres. I developed expertise in communication skills & resuscitation skills in children.

Teaching Experience

Administration

Other Professional Memberships

Outside interests