Dr. Tarush Rustagi — Senior Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Tarush Rustagi is Senior Consultant in Spine Services at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in Delhi NCR, with more than 15 years of experience. His profile records spine surgery together with orthopedics.

His list covers the whole column. He performs spinal fusion surgery, microdiscectomy and endoscopic spine surgery, disc replacement surgery, spinal deformity correction, cervical and lumbar spine surgery, spinal tumor surgery and spinal trauma surgery, and treats spondylolisthesis and degenerative disc disease.

His fellowship training is the longest part of his record and most of it was taken in the United States. After MBBS, an MS and a DNB in orthopaedics, and ECFMG certification, he took a spine fellowship at the Spine Foundation in Mumbai, followed by a comprehensive two-year fellowship at the same institution. Three further one-year fellowships followed abroad: an accredited adult and pediatric spine fellowship at the State University of New York, a complex and minimally invasive spine fellowship at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and a complex and spine tumor fellowship at Ohio State University and the James Cancer Center.

His academic record runs to more than 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international journals, cited over 1,000 times globally, together with book chapters and research presented at NASS and AO Spine.

He belongs to the North American Spine Society, AO Spine, the Indian Spinal Cord Society, the Delhi Spine Society, the Bombay Orthopaedic Society, the Delhi Orthopaedic Association and the Delhi Medical Association, and has worked at hospitals in Delhi, Noida, Mohali and Mumbai.