Dr Chaitanya Chikale

Work experience - Did 11 months of posting in spine unit during MS ORHTO residency at Sancheti hospital and developed keen interest in spine surgery. Also worked in Spine unit at SIOR as a senior resident after the MS exams till Jan 2016 . Then joined R.N. COOPER HOSPITAL ,Mumbai where I managed trauma as well as spine cases independently. Later I joined Bombay Hospital ,Mumbai as a Senior registrar and spine associate with DR Vishal Kundnani till Jan 2017. Worked as a clinical fellow at Seoul National university Hospital,South Korea in Spine surgery department with Prof. Jin Sup Yeom Spine surgery Fellowship at University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark LMCH Nagpur as Assisstant Professor along with managing a private spine clinic. May 2017 to feb 2019 Consultant Spine Surgeon -Hyderabad (Advanced Spine and knee care Hospital.) Research work - Presented research papers in various conferences like POSAC 2013, MOACON 2013, IOACON2014 MOACON 2013- Clinical outcomes of deformity correction in high degree angular kyphosis IOACON 2014- Management algorithm for Failed back surgery syndrome. POSAC- Monthly clinical meetings- A case of deformity correction in round back kyphosis in ankylosing Spondylitis. WIROC 2016 – Poster presentation on “Neglected bifacetal dislocatons in sub axial cervical spine- Dilemmas and Management algorithm ” Have done research work during residency in field of spine surgery . My thesis topic was “ Study of Functional outcomes of patients operated for cervical myelo-radiculopathy “ Asian Spine Journal - “ Correlation between MRI signal change intensity on T2 images and prognosis of patients operated for cervical myelopathy.” (April 2017 Edition) Journal of clinical and diagnostic research – Modified vertebral column resection technique for correcting rigid congenital angular kyphosis and its effect on functional outcomes. Management of neglected cervical bifacet dislocations – Asian Spine journal oct 2017 Tips for reducing fresh cervical fracture dislocations – Open access journal of neurosurgery sept 2017 Currently working on 1. cervical spondylotic myelopathy - Anterior vs Posterior approach (writing manuscript). 2.CT guided vs Carm guided transpedicular biopsy for thoraco lumbar vertebral lesions.(data collection) 3.Prospective study of conservatively managed Spinal tuberculosis.(recruiting patients) Field of interest - Spine surgery , Trauma.