Dr. Bhavuk Garg — Principal Director & Head – Orthopaedics & Spine in Delhi NCR

Dr. Bhavuk Garg is Principal Director and Head of Orthopaedics and Spine at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 26 years of experience. His profile records orthopedics together with spine surgery.

His list is the longest in this specialty. The operations run to cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery, discectomy and microdiscectomy, disc replacement surgery, laminectomy, endoscopic spine surgery, spinal fusion surgery, spinal stenosis surgery, spinal deformity correction, and spinal tumor and trauma surgery. The conditions listed alongside them include cervical and lumbar spondylosis, degenerative disc disease, degenerative spinal stenosis, slip disc, spondylolisthesis, spondylolysis and spinal cord injury.

His training is dated and after his MS was taken entirely in the United States. He read MBBS at the University College of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 2000 and took his MS in orthopaedics at AIIMS in 2004, then a Stanford-India Biodesign fellowship at Stanford University in 2005, a spine fellowship at the Dartmouth Spine Center in 2008, a Scoliosis Research Society global outreach fellowship at Milwaukee in 2011 and an orthopaedics fellowship with the American College of Surgeons at Chicago in 2013.

That biodesign training shows in his record. He holds a patent for FlexiOH, a DBT-recognised innovation from 2015, and received the DBT Biotech Product Development and Commercialisation Award in 2020.

His other awards are the AIIMS Research Excellence Award in 2020, the IOA Silver Jubilee Oration Award in 2021, and in 2022 the NASI–Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award and the Sitaram Jaipuria Award. He ranks among the top 2% of researchers globally in the Stanford rankings, and has written three international textbooks and more than 40 book chapters.