Brief Profile
Dr. Yugal Karkhur has an extensive and rich experience of 12 years in the field of Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement Surgery. He completed his MS in Orthopedics from the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and then worked at Delhi Government's largest hospital (Lok Nayak Hospital and Sushruta Trauma Centre) as Senior registrar for a period of 3 years where he attended large volumes of complex trauma cases and various other bone related problems.
He is fellowship certified hip and knee replacement surgeon and has completed his fellowship in joint replacement surgery and adult hip preservation surgery from Missouri Orthopedic institute, Missouri, USA. He also has been trained in arthroscopic (keyhole) surgeries of shoulder and knee joint related to various sports injuries at Sports Injury Center, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. Pursuing his interest in the field of joint replacement, he completed his Clinical Fellowship at Max Smart Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi and then continued as Associate consultant for a period of 2 years.
Dr. Yugal has tremendous interest in academics and research leading to more than 17 research papers in various international and national Pubmed indexed peer reviewed journals and various ongoing researches in pipeline. Increasing lifestyle related problems have also made him find his deeper interest in alleviating his patient's pain and discomfort from these problems.
Qualification
- MBBS, MS(Ortho), MAMC, DNB(Ortho), MNAMS
- Fellowship in Joint Replacement & Adult Hip Reconstruction Surgery (USA)
- Fellowship in Sports Injury
- Fellowship in Hip and Knee Replacement
Post held in past
- Consultant - Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement, Aarvy Healthcare Superspeciality Hospital, Gurugram
- Managing Head- Orthopaedics & Co- Founder, Orthocure Surgery+
- Consultant - Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement, Miracles Apollo Spectra Hospital, Gurugram
- Associate Consultant - Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement, Max Smart Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, Delhi
Fields of Expertise
- Primary & Revision Hip & Knee Replacement
- Knee & Shoulder Arthroscopy
- Complex Trauma Surgery
- Arthritis of Small & Large Joints
- Spine Related Problems
- Sports related injuries of Knee & Shoulder
- Fracture Non Unions & Infected Non Unions
Awards & Recognition
- Young Ambassador Award, APOA 2016, Melbourne, Australia
- Best Free Paper Award at the ISKSAA Global Summit, 2016, Delhi
- First Prize at the Quiz held at 6th AIIMS Arthroplasty Update 2018, Delhi
- ISKSAA
- APOA
- Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA)
- Delhi Orthopaedic Association (DOA)