Dr. Kailash Sarathy — Visiting Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Kailash Sarathy is a Visiting Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 15 years of experience. He is listed in pediatric orthopedics and orthopedics, and his qualifications are MBBS, MS in orthopaedics, FIPO and FIPAO.

His procedure list is the broadest in this group. Club foot and developmental dysplasia of the hip are the two conditions corrected in infancy. Pediatric scoliosis and scoliosis surgery address the growing spine, and deformity correction, limb reconstruction and pediatric foot and ankle surgery the limbs. Hip preservation surgery is the entry that marks a subspecialty of its own: it means rebuilding a hip so the child never needs it replaced. Cerebral palsy orthopedic surgery and pediatric fracture surgery complete the list.

He read MBBS with distinction at Govt. Chengalpattu Medical College and Hospital between 2006 and 2011, and took M.S. in orthopaedics and traumatology in the first class at Madurai Medical College and Trauma Care Centre between 2013 and 2016. His FIPO was the POSI-Kaye E Wilkins inland travelling fellowship of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of India in 2019, and his FIPAO was a clinical fellowship in paediatric and adolescent orthopaedics covering hip preservation and paediatric sports at National University Hospital in Singapore from August 2019 to February 2020.

He works across several Chennai children's hospitals. His paper on occipito-cervical fusion in Morquio disease won best paper at POSICON 2019 and a gold medal at TNOACON 2019, and he has over 13 publications in peer-reviewed journals.