Completed compulsory rotatory Internship as Resident Intern from 1st February 1998 to 31st January 1999 from B J Medical College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat). M.S. (Orthopaedics): Completed three years Master of Surgery course in Orthopaedics in November 2001 from NHL Medical College,Ahmedabad. Research Experience: Submitted a thesis entitled ?Minimal Invasive Per Cutaneous Plate Osteosynthesis in Metaphyseal Fractures of Tibia? to the faculty of Orthopedics,N H L Medical College,Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, in June 2001. "Started deptt of spine surgery looking exclusively after the patients having spine related problems. This is the first independent spine surgery unit in Surat. Doing specialised surgery for tb of spine bone and correcting associated spine deformities using latest sophisticated instrumentation technology. Surgical correction of advanced vertebral slip (high grade spondylolisthesis). Doing advanced surgery for cervical and lumbar spondylosis using modern instrumentation systems. Part of team managing pain clinic looking after and treating patients having intractable back and neck pain which is not getting relieved by conventional medicines."

Scoliosis and other spine deformity: Member of team headed by Dr Abhay Nene running spine clinic at Hinduja Hospital. Mumbai, treated various deformities of spine like scoliosis, kyphosis, tuberculosis as a member of surgical team I have experience of assisting cases of scoliosis of various aetiologies. Spinal Infections: modern management of spinal infections with debridement and instrumented fusion techniques Thoracolumbar trauma: Member of team managing thoracolumbar trauma at Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, New Delhi. Extensive experience in thoracic, thoracolumbar, retroperitoneal and posterior approaches and modern instrumentation in management of these injuries. Minimally invasive spine surgery: Experience in vertebroplasty, Microscopic discectomy Experience in surgical management of spondylolisthesis both low and high grade, degenerative disc diseases, spinal instabilities, various disc disorders, lumbar canal stenosis and tumors at thoracolumbar spine. Experience in Specialty: Deformity correction Vertebroplasty, Degenerative spinal problems Spinal infections, Spinal trauma facet joint and selective nerve root blocks