Dr. Gopala Krishnan — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Gopala Krishnan is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, with more than 36 years of experience. His profile records orthopedics alongside sports medicine and sports injury evaluation and management.

Those three specializations describe a practice weighted towards the injured rather than the worn joint. He performs ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff repair, meniscus injury repair and arthroscopic surgery, together with tendon repair, fracture fixation and carpal tunnel release, and treats carpal tunnel syndrome. Total knee replacement is the one replacement procedure on his list, which makes his range unusual for a surgeon of his seniority in that it is built around soft tissue and arthroscopic work rather than around arthroplasty.

His qualifications follow the same line. He holds an MBBS, an MS in orthopaedics, the DNB in orthopaedics and a fellowship in sports medicine, the last of which is the formal basis for the two sports specializations on his profile.

His professional standing is recorded mainly through long-term memberships. He is a life member and a life fellow of the Indian Orthopaedic Association, and a life member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. He also belongs to the Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association and the Madras Orthopaedic Society, and his record notes membership of various further national and international orthopedic and sports medicine associations.

Holding a life membership and a life fellowship of the Indian Orthopaedic Association together with ISAKOS membership places his affiliations in the same arthroscopy and sports medicine field that his operating list is built on.