Dr Somashekar D

Work Experience

Dr. Somashekar D comes with more than 8 years of experience.

During his MS Orthopaedics, he has been exposed to various specialities like trauma, arthroplasty, arthroscopy and spine surgery. He has worked in Siddharth hospital, Goregaon, Mumbai in the past and is exposed to all varieties of cases. Then, he worked at Park Clinic, Kolkata at the department of spine surgery and was exposed to more than 2000 spine surgeries. Later, worked at Kothari Medical center, kolkata as senior research fellow and did more than 250 spine surgeries independently. He then, worked as consultant spine surgeon at Specialist hospital, Bangalore and worked as assistant professor, department of Orthopaedics at Shri atal Bihari Vajpayee medical College and research institute.

Education

1. Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) from Kurunji Venkatramana Gowda Medical College (KVGMC), Sullia, Karnataka
2. MS Orthopedics from BMCRI, Bangalore affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bangalore
3. DNB Orthopedics, National board of examinations
4. Fellowship of National Board (FNB) Spine, Park Clinic and Neurosciences, Kolkata
5. Spine Research Fellow, Department of spine surgery, Kothari medical center, Kolkata

Honors & Awards

• College gold medal for highest marks in Anatomy, pharmacology, microbiology, and OBG 
• College gold medal for highest marks in 2nd year MBBS

Area Of Expertise

• Spine trauma
• Disc problems
• Sciatica
• Neck pain
• Back pain
• Cervical and thoracic problems
• Degenerative spine disease
• Scoliosis
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Spine infections
• Inflammatory spine disorders
• Spine tumors
• All spine related problems