Dr. Karunakaran S — Director and Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Karunakaran S is Director and Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics.

His list is degenerative and reconstructive spine work. He performs discectomy and microdiscectomy, spinal fusion surgery, cervical and lumbar spine surgery, and spinal stenosis surgery, and he treats spondylolisthesis, slip disc and spinal cord injury. He also carries out spinal deformity correction.

He read MBBS at Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University, in 1995, took his MS in orthopedics at Shri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute in 2000, and added the DNB in orthopaedics from the National Board in 2001, so his specialist training was examined twice in successive years.

Much of his record is travelling fellowships and awards. He received the Mohandas Weller Gold Medal and Fellowship Award at the 10th Anniversary Meet of the Indo-German Orthopaedic Foundation, the ASSI Travelling Spine Fellowship Award from the Association of Spine Surgeons of India in 2005, and the Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Travelling Spine Fellowship Award in 2006. In 2010 he was recognised for the best publication in the Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Journal.

His memberships run from the state level upward: the Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association, the Orthopaedic Association of South India, the Association of Spine Surgeons of India, the Asian Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery, the Asia Pacific Spine Society and AO Spine. The two minimally invasive and Asian bodies on that list sit beside a practice built on fusion and decompression at MGM Healthcare.