Consultant Orthopedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon

Dr. ASSHRAF PASHA

E-mail: **********@*****.**

EX ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ORTHOPEDICS

Consultant Orthopedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon

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Personnel Information

Nationality: Indian (permanent resident status in Canada)

Religion: Islam

DOB: 04-04-1977

Address: Flat no: 501, Ramez Apartments, Near Aster Al Raffah Hospital, Sohar, Oman

Address In India: 1-3/2-10-C, Cantonment, Vizianagaram- 535003,AP, INDIA

Contact no:

India: 837-***-****

Oman : 00968 - 92117008

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Nepali (fluent)

Dhivehi (working knowledge) Arabic (working knowledge)

Passport details:

PP No: K 6762277 Place of Issue : Maldives

Date of issue: 21-06-2012 Date of expiry: 20-06-2022

CAREER SUMMARY

Around 9 years of post MS work experience in the field of orthopedics, trauma,spine and joint replacement surgery after passing three years of residency with extensive exposure in pediatric orthopedics, hand surgery, trauma surgery, spine surgery, arthroplasty, arthroscopy and almost all common orthopedic conditions

2 years of teaching experience as an assistant professor of oprthopedics teaching both undergraduate and post graduate students at Manipal Medical college

Pleasing manners, good leadership qualities, excellent working abilities and perfect communication and interpersonal skills.

A good decision-maker, who is well organized resourceful and efficient

Effective team worker with excellent initiation, co-ordination and motivational skills.

Focusing and objective in my work approach with an attitude of getting the work done, especially under pressure.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Fellow of International College of Surgeons in orthopedics (FICS Ortho) USA 2014

Training in Advanced arthroplasty and Oxford knee at Markham Stouffville Hospital, Canada - 2014

International Surgical Flap training Course at Sanfrancisco General Hospital, SF, USA 2010 organised by IGOT. -2010

Stryker’s Fellowship in Joint Replacement Surgery from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi -2009

Master of Surgery (M.S) residency training of 3 years in Orthopedics & Trauma Surgery from National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital, Nepal (www.nams.org.np)

Aug 2005 –Sept2008

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery) (5 years) from Rangaraya Medical College, Andhra Pradesh, India followed by 12 months of Compulsory Rotatory Internship at Government General Hospital, Kakinada, India. December 1996- June 2003

Date of Graduation- May 2002

Date of completion of Internship- June 2003

WORK HISTORY

Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon

Aster Al Raffah Hospital, Sohar, Oman Sept 2015 - till date

Aster group is a conglomerate of prestigious Aster hospitals spread all over India and middle east well known for its quality services. Aster Al Raffah, Sohar hospital is a JCI accredited corporate hospital, awarded 3rd best hospital in Oman and the best one in Al Batinah region.

Management of all kinds of orthopedic cases including trauma, cold orthopedics, hand surgery, spine, arthroplasty and whole volume of knee arthroscopy surgeries

Management of regular OP department and emergency cases.

Supervision of junior specialists and resident doctors and other para medical staff

Consultant Orthopedic and Joint Replacement Surgeon

King Abdul Aziz Naval Base Hospital, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia Jan 2015- July 2015

KANB Hospital is a tertiary care hospital mainly catering to the health care needs of the military personnel, their families and also civilians of the eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia with all modern amenities, ultra high end infra structure and faculty. It is also a teaching hospital running post graduate courses of Saudi board in some faculties.

Independent health care practitioner performing regular outpatient department, ward rounds, operating room duties and emergency on call duties

Supervising and monitoring the job responsibilities of specialists/registrars and resident doctors

Perform pre operative assessment and surgeries of spine surgeries & joint replacements in suitable patients along with post operative rehabilitation supervision

Versatile surgeon performing almost all kinds of orthopedic, trauma, hand, arthroscopy, spine and joint surgeries with specialization in joint replacement surgeries

Management of wounds typical for military personnel including gunshot wounds, bomb blast victims etc.

Training at Markham Stouffville Hospital, Canada in Advanced Arthroplasty and "Oxford" knee replacement 2014

Sr Consultant Orthopedic and Joint Replacement Surgeon

Siddhi Vinayak Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal Aug 2013 - Jan 2015

Incharge of the Orthopedic department and overall management of the surgical department

Performed all sorts of elective and emergency surgeries and holistic patient management including post operative rehabilitation

Performed numerous arthroplasty and diagnostic arthroscopy surgeries and won admiration of both patients and management

Hospital sponsored training in advanced arthroplasty in Canada due to my credentials

Joined the hospital back after finishing the fellowship in Canada

Consultant Orthopedic and Joint Replacement Surgeon

ADK Hospital, Male’, Republic of Maldives (www.adkhospital.mv) Jun 2012 - Aug 2013

ADK hospital is the only corporate private hospital in the country of Maldives serving to the needs of the patients of the entire nation with state of the art technology,infrastructure and medical care.

Independent health care practitioner performing regular outpatient department, ward rounds, operating room duties and emergency duties.

Incharge of arthroplasty& arthroscopy units of the department.

Versatile surgeon performing almost all kinds of orthopedic, trauma,hand and joint surgeries with negligible rate of complications.

Consultant Ortho surgeon, Ministry of Health, Republic of Maldives posted at Ungoofaaru regional Hospital, RaaUngoofaaru, Raa Atoll Feb 2012 to May 2012

Assistant Professor & consultant ortho and Joint replacement surgeon (Department of Orthopedics &Trauma Surgery): Feb 2010 – Feb 2012

Institution: Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal (www.manipal.edu.np)

Academic & research activities Incharge of the department

Clinical & theoretical teaching activities for all the undergraduate and post graduate students

Performing regular outpatient department, ward rounds, operating room duties and emergency duties.

Incharge of arthroplasty& arthroscopy units of the department.

Member of the board of examiners in orthopedics for undergraduate & postgraduate students.

Programme manager & chief surgeon of the SIGN programme (by the courtesy of Surgical Implants Generation Network, Richland, WA, USA) where by we treat the suitable tibial, femoral and humeral fractures of poor & needy patients free of cost with the help of IM nails donated by SIGN, USA.

Efficient independent management of almost all varieties of orthopedic cases including all types of trauma, complicated fractures & dislocations, joint replacement, arthroscopy, hand surgery, pediatric orthopedics and others.

Efficient management of all sorts of orthopedic emergencies, including basic and advanced trauma life support and cardiac life support to the patients.

Registrar (Department of Orthopedics): 2008 – 2010

Capital Hospital & Research Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal

MEDICAL OFFICER

Worked as a House Officer at Ministry of Health Regional Hospital Services, Republic of Maldives from Feb’2004-Feb’2005.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Organised AO workshop and symposium on principles of operative fracture management for trauma surgeons and operative ropompersonnels at MCOMS, Nepal from 2nd to 5th March 2011and has been AO faculty in the same occasion.

Procured SIGN status for Manipal College of Medical Sciences whereby the hospital receives free surgical implants from SIGN corp., USA based on my previous SIGN training and has been the SIGN programmemanagaerof the hospital and trained many surgeons in SIGN technique.

Selected & sponsored by the hospital to represent the institution in SIGN annual conference held at Richmond, WA, USA in Sept 2010 and to undergo training in surgical Flap Course in San Francisco, USA.

Organised first Arthroplasty conference “ARTHROCON -2010” in Nepal at Manipal College of Medical Sciences and performed joint replacement surgeries in this region for the first time and showed live to the delegates.

Achieved Goldmedal in final MS orthopedics examination from NAMS.

WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS/ CONFERENCES ATTENDED

Participated actively in scientific programme& workshop organized by NOA on “Musculo skeletal TB” at ORTHOCON

Actively participated in “Research Methodology Training” at Bir Hospital, organized by NAMS

Participated actively in 4th OASAC (SAARC conference)-2006 organized by Nepal Orthopedic Association

Actively participated in “Instructional course on spinal trauma & current advances in spine” organized by NOA, Nepal

Participated actively in a symposium on “Trauma care & resuscitation” organized jointly by American Embassy & NAMS at Bir Hospital

Participated actively in “Advanced Cardiac Life Support” training organized by NAMS at Bir Hospital

Participated actively in “Trauma Life support” training organized by Department of Orthopedics, NAMS at Hotel Himalaya

Participated in “AO-SEC” symposium (Pre Basic Course) at NMCTH, Birganj

Participated in “International workshop on Ponseti`s method of treatment of clubfoot” at HRDC, Nepal organized jointly by Ponseti International, Cure International and HRDC

Participated in “AO Basic Course in Operative management of Fractures” held at NMC Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Participated in “Current Concepts in Arthroplasty- Joint Replacement in Young & Active” at AIIMS, New Delhi.

Participated in “Basic course in Arthroplasty” conducted by Stryker company, at New Delhi in Sept 2009.

Participated in International Surgical Flap training Course at Sanfrancisco General Hospital, SF, CA from 12th -13th Sep, 2010 organised by IGOT.

Participated in Annual SIGN conference on “Difficult fractures around the world” at Richland, Washington, USA from 14-18th Sept, 2010

Attented IOACON-2010 organised by Indian Orthopedic Association, at Jaipur, India from 9h-14 Dec 2010.

Attended ORTHOCON-2011 at Kathmandu Nepal from 28-29th Jan 2011by Nepal Orthopedic Association.

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PAPERS PRESENTED

Presented a paper on “Primary TKR-step by step” at ARTHROCON-2010 at Manipal Teaching Hospital, June 2010.Organized the same conference in the capacity of organising secretary.

Presented paper on “Management of Tibial Bone defects in total knee arthroplasty” in ORTHOCON-2010 in Feb 2010.

Presented papers on “SIGN nailing for tibialdiaphyseal fractures” and on “Treatment of trigger digits: steroid injection Vs percutaneous release” in ORTHOCON-2008 in November 2008.

Presented 2 scientific papers on “Accuracy of Thessaly test in the diagnosis of maniacal tears” and “Treatment of comminuted distal radius fractures with a simple external fixator using ligamentotasis” in ORTHOCON-2007 organized by NOA from 21st to 23rd December,2007 at BPKIHS, Dharan

Presented scientific paper on “Treatment of trigger digits by percutaneous release with 18 G needle” in 4th OASAC (SAARC conference)-2006 organized by Nepal Orthopedic Association from 08th to 10th December ’2006.

Presented scientific paper on “Treatment modalities of Musculo skeletal TB in Bir Hospital” in scientific programme& workshop organized by NOA on “Musculo skeletal TB” at ORTHOCON-2005 on 2nd& 3rd December 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

“Treatment of trigger digits by percutaneous release with an 18-G hypodermic needle-a prospective clinical trial”, JSSN 2007;Vol.10(1):15-17

“Accuracy of Thessaly test in the diagnosis of meniscal tears”, JSSN 2008;Vol.12 (3):21-24

Authored a book titled “Review of Orthopaedics” published by Jaypee Brothers in 2009.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Nepal medical council (NMC) Reg. No: 2952

Medical council of India (MCI) Reg. No: 49701

Maldivian Medical Council (MMC), Republic of Maldives Reg No: TMR 0573

REFERENCES

Dr Syed Haider

MD FRCS -C, FRCS-Ortho

Joint replacement and Sports Injury Specialist

Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham

Ontario L6B 1A1 Canada

Ph: 001 905-***-****

email: ************@*****.**

Dr Raju Vaishya

MBBS, MS(orth), M Ch(Liverpool)

Sr Consultant

Orthopedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon,

Apollo Hospitals, SaritaVihar, New Delhi, India

Ph: 009*-*****-****

e mail: ****.*******@*****.***

Prof Dr M K Chakraborty

MBBS, MS (PGI) DPMR, FICS (USA)

HoD, Orthopedics,

Manipal College of Medical Sciences,

Pokhara, Nepal

Ph:00977-97261-55900

e-mail: *********@*****.***

Prof .Dr. Jwala Raj Pandey

MBBS, FRCS ; M.Ch.Ortho(Liverpool); F.N.A.M.S.

Professor of Orthopedics, Kathmandu University,

Sr. Consultant, B. & B. Hospital, Kathmandu,

Visiting Professor, NAMS, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Ph: 00977-1- 5533206, 5555739

Mob: 00977-9841727279

e-mail: ********@*****.***.**

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