Dr. B. Mohapatra — Director in Delhi NCR

Dr. B. Mohapatra is Director of Spine Services at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in Delhi NCR, with more than 22 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics.

His list covers the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. He performs discectomy and microdiscectomy, spinal fusion surgery, disc replacement surgery, spinal stenosis surgery and vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, along with spinal deformity correction. Cervical spondylosis, degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesis are the conditions named on his profile.

He holds MBBS and an MS in orthopaedics. His IGASS Fellowship in spinal instrumentation was taken in France and Germany, and his post-doctoral fellowship in spine surgery in Sydney.

That IGASS fellowship was itself an award, given for a paper presented at the International Conference on Lumbar Intervertebral Disc at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in April 2009, reporting that early and sustainable improvement in pain was evident as soon as ten days after total lumbar disc replacement, at a minimum follow-up of two years. Disc replacement remains on his list of procedures.

His earlier prizes are from general orthopaedics and predate the spinal work. He took first prize at OOACON in Jaipur in 2002 for a paper on the management of bone tumours by the Ilizarov technique, and second prize at OOACON in Cuttack in 2001 for a paper on the management of cubitus varus deformity by external fixator, which he published the same year in the Orissa Journal of Orthopaedics. He practises at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in New Delhi.