Dr. Sanjay Pai — Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Sanjay Pai is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, with more than 39 years of experience in orthopedics.

Joint replacement is the centre of his practice. He performs total knee replacement and total hip replacement and the revision of both, and his record describes him as a leading authority in the country for joint replacement surgery with more than 1,000 such operations performed. Alongside the replaced joint he performs ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, rotator cuff repair, arthroscopic surgery, tendon repair, fracture fixation and carpal tunnel release, and treats carpal tunnel syndrome.

He holds four orthopaedic qualifications: the MBBS, the MS in orthopedics, the MCh in orthopedics and the DNB in orthopedics, so his postgraduate training was taken through three separate examination routes rather than one.

Computer navigation is the technical thread through his record. He is described as a pioneer of 3rd generation computer-navigated joint replacements in South India and as the only surgeon performing computer-navigated surgeries at his facility, which places the navigated knee and hip at the centre of what he offers rather than at its edge.

His teaching and speaking sit alongside the operating. He is faculty for the joint replacement fellowship at Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, is a regular speaker at international conferences, and demonstrates difficult cases across the country. Between a career of over three decades, a documented volume of joint replacement surgeries and a fellowship teaching role, his record is that of a surgeon whose operating and training responsibilities both sit in arthroplasty.