Dr Saurabh Rawall
Senior Consultant - Spine & Deformity Correction
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About
Dr Saurabh Rawal is one of the most specialized doctor in Spine surgeries and correction of spinal deformities. He is associated with Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi as Senior Consultant- Spine Surgery.
He is one of the handful of spine surgeons in the country to have completed a comprehensive 1 year clinical hands-on spine fellowship in North America. He has completed 3 comprehensive spine surgery fellowships in Canada, Australia and India and is an expert in managing all spinal pathologies.
Dr. Rawall completed his medical degree from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and went on to do his MS in Orthopaedics at AIIMS. AIIMS is considered the premier institute for medicine in India and the orthopaedic residency program at AIIMS is ranked as one of the best in the country. Following his residency, he spent 1 year with Prof. Arvind Jayaswal, where he got specialized training in the management of scoliosis and other spinal disorders in children. Thereafter, he completed a 2 year fellowship in spine surgery at Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai. While at Mumbai, his research work on osteoporotic fractures, vertebroplasty and low cost implants in spine surgery was published in reputed international journals and won many accolades at national and international conferences.
Following this, he was selected for the prestigious adult spine fellowship at the University of Calgary, Canada where he specialized in all aspects of adult spine surgery. This 1 year fellowship included a 3 month stint with Dr. John Hurlbert (world famous neurosurgeon), where he received specialist training in cervical spine surgery including cervical disc replacement. While in Canada, he trained extensively in minimally invasive spine surgery and the treatment of most spinal conditions with small cuts. Then, he went to Sydney, Australia for 6 months to receive specialized training in paediatric spine surgery (children affected by deformities like scoliosis and kyphosis) at the childrens hospital at Westmead. The childrens hospital at Westmead is one of the busiest centre for the treatment of paediatric spine disorders in the Asia pacific region.
Professional Memberships:
- Association of Spine Surgeons of India
- Delhi Spine Soceity
- India Orthopaedic Association
- Delhi Orthopaedic Association
- AO Spine International
Areas Of Interest
- Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
- Paediatric Spine – Scoliosis and Kyphosis Correction
- Cost Effective Spinal Surgery Solutions
- Osteoporotic vertebral fractures
Education
- MBBS (AIIMS)
- MS ORTHO (AIIMS)
- FNB SPINE SURGERY
- ADULT SPINE FELLOWSHIP FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA)
- PAEDIATRIC SPINE FELLOWSHIP FROM WESTMEAD CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)
Experience
Current Experience
- Senior Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital.
Previous Experience
- A consultant in the department of orthopedics in Jaypee Hospital.
- Consultant Spine Surgeon – Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon
- Consultant Spine Surgeon – Fortis Hospitals (Delhi/NCR)
- Director – Centre for Spine, Janakpuri, New Delhi
- Senior Resident, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Research And Publications:
- Rawall S, Mohan K, Nagad P, Sabnis A, Pawar U, Nene A. Ro implants' in our practice: our experience with 1,572 pedicle scr 20:1607-1612
- S S Patil, S Rawall, P Nagad, B Shial, U Pawar, A Nene. Outc instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion using corticoc chips. Indian J Orthop. 201 1
- Nagad P, Rawall S, Kundnani V, Mohan K, Patil S, Nene A. P A series of 5 cases. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 2012 [Epub 4. Mohan K, Rawall S, Pawar U, Nene A, Nene A. Age old disea review of drug resistance patterns in I Il cases of drug resistant Spine J 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
- S Rawall, K Bali, B Upendra, B Garg, CS Yadav, A Jayaswal. fractures in the young: significance of posterior comminution a pressure. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2011 Sep 18. [Epub ahead
- Rawall S, Mohan K, Nene A, Posterior approach in thoracolum and radiological review of 67 operated cases. MusculoskeletS ahead of print]
- Patil S, Rawall S, Singh D, Mohan K, Nagad P, Shial B, Pawar patterns in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.
Hospitals
Treatments
Awards
- Selected for prestigious Senior Spine Fellowship at Queens's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK in 2014
- Selected for the short term AO Spine Fellowship in 2012; 2011 APOA DePuy Spine Travelling Fellowship; KT Dholakia
- Gold Medal for best oral presentation at IOACON 2011, Noida
- EuroSpine 2011 travel grant to attend the annual conference at Milan, Italy
- Best paper award at DOACON, Jan, 2011
- Secured 14th rank amongst approx. 40,000 students appearing for AIIMS pre-PG exam, 2005
- Awarded Institute Prize for highest marks in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology in 2002
- Secured 2nd rank amongst approx. 2 lac students appearing for All India PMT exam in 2000
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