Dr. R. Srinivas Reddy

Specialty:

Trauma & Orthopaedics

Super Specialty:

Fellowships in Joint Replacements & Knee Sports Medicine (USA, UK & Europe)

Areas of Interests:

• Total Knee Replacements, Unicompartmental Knee Replacements, High Tibial Osteotomies, Total Hip Replacements, Knee Arthroscopy and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
• Currently leading a High Volume TKR centre in the Hospital at Anantapur with high quality equipment and infrastructure as per International standards since 2016.

Education:

• 2013 TO 2015 (International Fellowships): USA, UK & Europe
• 2013: FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics), United Kingdom
• 2007: ATLS Instructor, Taught in UK from 2007 to 2011
• 2002: FRCSI, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin
• 1993 to 1997: M.S (Orthopaedics), J.J.M.M.C, Davangere, India
• 1986 to 1992: MBBS, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India
• 1975 to 1986: Hyderabad Public School (Begumpet), Hyderabad, India

Experience:

• Experience in Orthopaedics: 26 years.  Of which 17 years spent abroad mostly in UK, and sometime in USA & Europe.
• Since 2016 established a high quality and high volume TKR Centre in KIMS-SAVEERA Hospital at Anantapur, bringing the highest quality care to Anantapur.

1. Fellowship in Adult Hip & Knee Joint Reconstruction (2013 to 2014): Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina; U. S. A

2. Fellowship in Knee Arthroplasty and Arthroscopy (2014 to 2015): The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Dorset, U. K

3. Visiting/ Travelling Fellowships in Europe (2015):

Visiting Knee Fellowships in Germany: Sporthopaedicum (Berlin); University of Munich; Endoklinik (Hamburg) & University of Tubingen

Visiting Knee Fellowship in France: Lyon (Dr. De Jour & Dr. Neyret)

Visiting Hip & Knee Fellowships in England: Bristol; Oxford; Cardiff; London, Basingstoke & Exeter.

Dr. R. Srinivas Reddy is a native of Anantapur and was educated in reputed institutions in the historic city of Hyderabad and left in 1998, for further experience in the West. He has returned in 2015 to reestablish roots, and serve patients in India.

During his time abroad, he has worked as a Surgeon in the famed National Health Service (NHS), UK, for nearly 16 years. He has also worked as a Fellow in a large University Hospital in the USA for 8 months. Further, he has done Visiting/Travelling Fellowships in Germany, France & England for 4 months prior to his relocation to India.

Awards & Achievements:

1. Professor Fred Heatley prize for Research (2005). 

Poster on Correcting the Constant score for age: The decline in shoulder function as patient’s age. Annual combined South East and South West Thames circuit meeting, St George’s Hospital, London.

2. Annual Prize for Best Project (2002).

Audit on Oxford Unicompartmental Knee replacement as day case procedure.  Awarded by Department of Orthopaedics,  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK.

3. Andhra Pradesh State Merit Scholarship Award (1980 to 1986). 

This is granted to students after an open competition in the entire state and results in subsidized Boarding school education till the completion of ICSE & ISC Board exams.

Research & Publications:

I. PUBLICATIONS:     

1. Examination of the wrist: surface anatomy of the carpal bones 

       R. Srinivas Reddy and J. Compson  Current Orthopaedics (2005) 19, Issue 3: 171-179. 

2. Examination of the wrist: soft tissue, joints and special tests 

        R. Srinivas Reddy and J. Compson, Current Orthopaedics (2005) 19, Issue 3: 180-189. 

3. Gunshot injuries to the extremities: experience of a U.K trauma centre 

I. J. Persad; R. Srinivas Reddy; M. A. Saunders and J. Patel 

Injury 2005; 36(3): 406-410.

4. Motor and sensory ulnar neuropathy following mountain bike riding: a case report and literature review. 

R. Srinivas Reddy; G. Kakarala; I. J. Persad and J. Compson 

Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol (2005) 15: 157-158. (ISSN: 0948- 4817)

5. Mitek anchor pull out strength – A biomechanical study on fresh frozen cadaver hands: Preliminary results in comparison with the pull out suture at the distal phalangeal level

A. R. Tolat, R. S. Reddy, Ian Persad, J. Compson and Prof. A. Amis

South Thames Orthopaedic Proceedings; Issue 1; January 2005: 75-79. (ISSN: 1473-964X)

6. Correcting the Constant Score for age: The decline in shoulder function as patient’s age.

A. Ghassemi; R. S. Reddy; Dr. N. Donaldson; J. Sinha. 

South Thames Orthopaedic Proceedings; Issue 2; January 2006: 27-28 (ISSN 1473-964X)

7. The Shape of the articulating ends in the Acromioclavicular joint: A study of 79 cadaver shoulders. 

R. S. Reddy; R. Singh; I. J. Persad; M. Roberts; Prof. S. Standring; J. Sinha. 

South Thames Orthopaedic Proceedings; Issue 2; January 2006: 29-37 (ISSN 1473-964X)

8. King’s Handbook of fracture classification: written chapter on knee fracture classification.

9. An Unusual presentation of a Recurrent Neurofibroma in the Hand (case report).

R. Srinivas Reddy, S. Bajaj, A. R. Tolat, J. Compson 

Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol (Issue 17/4, July 2007)

II.  THESIS:   

 “A Prospective Clinical, Radiological and Pathological Study of Bone Tumours and Tumour like lesions (90 cases)” accepted for the award of M. S degree in Orthopaedics in 1997. 

III. AUDIT EXPERIENCE:

1. Analysis of PROMS data for RBCH, Bournemouth, UK (2013-2014): Presented Sept 2014.

2. Joint Bundle Implementation and achievement of Reduction in Infection Rates in a Large US University Hospital (2013-2014).

3. Compliance of VTE Prophylaxis for Hip and Knee Replacements with Department protocol after introduction of oral anticoagulants. Yeovil District Hospital, Somerset, UK - 2012.

4. Introduction of uniform protocol (based on NICE guidelines) for Prophylaxis against Venous Thromboembolism following Elective Orthopaedic Surgery. Cheltenham General Hospital, UK - January 2009

Memberships:

• Telangana & AP Medical Council
• General Medical Council (UK)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland