Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan — Senior Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan is a Senior Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 38 years of experience. His profile records orthopedics together with spine surgery.

His list covers the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. He performs spinal fusion surgery and spinal deformity correction, spinal stenosis surgery and disc replacement surgery, and he operates on spinal tumours and spinal trauma.

His qualifications are unusual in being built as much on research as on surgery. After MBBS and an MS he took the MCh with honours at the University of Liverpool in 1984, where he won the gold medal, then a PhD at the University of London in 1993. He also holds the FRCSOrth of the Royal College of Surgeons in orthopedics.

The research strand is documented in his own record. He held academic grants from the Arthritis & Rheumatism Council, the Wolfson Foundation, the Hammersmith & Queen Charlotte Special Health Authority and Proteus Molecular Design, all in the UK, and supervised postdoctoral fellows, two of whose research assistants went on to obtain a PhD in related projects. A surgeon who has run funded laboratory work and trained doctoral researchers brings a different background to a spinal deformity or tumour case than one trained only on the operating list.

He is a past member of the British Orthopedic Association and belongs to the Association of Spine Surgeons of India and the Delhi Spine Society.