Friday, June 20, 2008

Hip Resurfacing Surgeon at Wockhardt Hospitals India



Dr. KAUSHAL C. MALHAN


Joint Replacement / Resurfacing and sports Surgeon
QualificationFRCS (Orth) U.K., FRCS (Surg) U.K, Dip. Sports Medicine U.K.MS (Orth) Bombay, D (Orth) Bombay





Wockhardt Hip Surgery Centre is headed by Dr.Kaushal Malhan, FRCS (Orth) UK, FRCS (Surg.) UK, Dip. Sports Med. UK, MS (Orth), D (Orth), Senior Knee & Hip replacement . He has spent a number of years in the U.K. where he got trained and routinely performed Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Surgeries. and has to his credit experience of performing more than 800 procedures with excellent outcomes.



Dr Malhan completed his MS in orthopaedics in one of Asia’s premier institutions - King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay. He quickly progressed to become a junior consultant and lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the same institute. His interest in joint replacement and sports surgery took him overseas where he spent nearly 7 years training in some of the best centers for joint replacement and resurfacing surgery including the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry, U.K.



Dr. Malhan completed the British orthopaedic training programme in the Oswestry-Stoke rotation (West Midlands) and was awarded the FRCS(Orth). Besides extensive training in primary and revision joint replacement surgery he has also worked in the National institute of sports surgery – UK and units dedicated to knee and shoulder arthroscopic surgery. He is well versed with advanced techniques in cartilage and ligament reconstruction. Dr Malhan did his post FRCS (Orth) fellowship in advanced joint surgery at the Freeman hospital, Newcastle - UK. He is presently a consultant surgeon at the Wockhardt Bone and Joint hospital, Bombay (now called Mumbai) and specializes in knee, hip and shoulder surgery. Here he has established the Regional Hip Resurfacing and Joint Replacement Center for western India. This center has state of the art infrastructure and attracts patients from all over India and overseas.
Dr. Malhan has been in the forefront in the field of high bending total knee replacement and minimally invasive replacement surgery. The first minimally invasive mobile bearing unicompartmental knee replacement in India was done by him.



Dr. Kaushal Malhan pioneered and popularized hip resurfacing surgery with the first ever live surgical demonstration of the Birmingham hip resurfacing done in Bombay (now called Mumbai). This was done in an international conference on resurfacing at the Wockhardt Hospital, Bombay. The conference was presided over by Dr. Dereck McMinn the inventor of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing. Dr. Malhan has performed the highest number of Birmingham hip resurfacings in Bombay. He is also the only surgeon to have publicly demonstrated his skills in Mumbai, time and again. Recently two of his live demonstrations of hip resurfacing surgery were telecast to multiple centers within India, for the benefit of other orthopaedic surgeons. He is also actively involved in training overseas surgeons in hip resurfacing and recently did a live demonstration for surgeons from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. He has also had the privilege to demonstrate this surgery in one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country.



Recently, Dr. Malhan was selected from amongst India’s joint replacement and resurfacing surgeons to lecture on hip resurfacing for an audience of North American doctors at a symposium organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII).

Academic Achievements

12Publications (9 in international journals like The Knee, Spine, Arthroscopy)
21 Presentations (18 in international meetings)
2 Dissertations
Demonstrator on faculty in India and abroad – 7
15 international courses and symposia
Guest lectures at meetings –32 (these include lectures to prestigious medical bodies like the IMA and GPA)
Teaches trauma life support in the Wockhardt trauma course which was started by him.
His views and articles have been published in reputed newspapers and magazines like the Times. Express, Free Press journal, Midday etc.



You can watch video testimonials of Hip Resurfacing patients talking about their experience on the Wockhardt Channel on Youtube.com - weblink below
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=wockhosp

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Wockhardt hospitals Group has partnered with Harvard Medical International (HMI), Boston, USA, in establishing a chain of super specialty hospitals across India. Several new hospitals / facilities are in the pipeline. With latest technology, multi-disciplinary capability, state of the art facilities, world class infrastructure and excellent patient care ambience and processes, Wockhardt Hospitals is poised to become the most advanced and progressive healthcare institution in this part of the world.

Joint Commission International (JCI) - the international arm of JCAHO which accredits top hospitals in USA has audited Wockhardt hospital at Mumbai and bangalore and has approved it. This is a first of its kind recognition for an Indian Superspeciality hospital and confirms that the hospital adheres to international standards of clinical care, safe environment, medication safety, respect for rights and privacy, international infection control standards and access to dedicated well trained staff.
In 2006 , Wockhardt opened a new 400 Bed Multi-speciality hospital in Bangalore – among Asia’s most advanced super-specialty hospitals – it’s a state of the art facility equipped with latest technology and truly World class Clinical Talent dedicated to the whole range of Cardiac, Orthopedic, Neurosciences, Minimal Access Surgery and Women & Child Services

Wockhardt Hospitals attract a large number of overseas patients from UK, USA Canada and Middle East and they have all gone back very happy with our high quality services at very low cost. Please check out http://www.wockhardthospitals.net/ for details of our international patient services and testimonials.

The Hospital have created a special division to look after international patients – Company guest relations persons themselves go to the airport to receive patients at any hour, they can arrange to send a life support ambulance in case the patient needs it. Also they have modified our rooms for overseas patients and have equipped them with Satellite TV, Fridge, Computer with high speed internet, F&B and laundry service for the companion are all provided in rooms. International patients are looked after by specially trained nurses, and facilitated by guest relations executives for any special requirements like visa, shopping, tourism packages etc. all through their stay.

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