Dr. Vijayaraghavan G — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Vijayaraghavan G is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 22 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics.

His list is weighted toward degenerative lumbar work and revision surgery. He performs discectomy and microdiscectomy, laminectomy and spinal stenosis surgery, spinal fusion surgery and spinal deformity correction, and endoscopic spine surgery. Degenerative spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis and revision surgery after failed back surgery are all on his list.

He read MBBS at Madras Medical College in Chennai in 2004, took his MS in orthopaedics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 2010, and added the DNB in orthopaedics from the National Board of Examinations in 2013.

Six fellowships follow. He held a spine clinical fellowship at National University Hospitals in Singapore and a clinical spine research fellowship at AIIMS in New Delhi, the APSS Spine Depuy Synthes Fellowship across Korea, Japan and China, the ASSI Travelling Spine Fellowship in India, the IASA Spine Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco in 2018, and the AO Spine National Fellowship at Bombay Hospital in Mumbai. The research fellowship alongside the clinical ones explains a record in which papers feature as prominently as procedures.

His awards are all for presented work: a best paper presentation gold medal as co-author at Kodaikanal in 2013, a silver medal best paper award at the 6th Conference of the World Society for Endoscopic, Navigated and Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery in New Delhi the same year, and a best paper presentation at the Singapore Spine Society annual meeting in 2018.