Dr. Praveen Kumar Rao — Senior Consultant Orthopedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon in Hyderabad

Dr. Praveen Kumar Rao is a Senior Consultant Orthopedic and Joint Replacement Surgeon at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 26 years of experience in orthopedics.

His list is built around the replaced joint. He performs total knee replacement, partial knee replacement, total hip replacement and shoulder replacement, together with revision knee replacement and revision hip replacement. Alongside that he performs ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff repair, fracture fixation and non-union repair, so failed and revised replacements and fracture work make up the remainder of a practice otherwise centred on primary arthroplasty.

His qualifications describe a career spent almost entirely inside joint replacement and trauma. He holds an MS in orthopedics and is a Fellow in joint replacement surgery and a Fellow in trauma surgery. His clinical fellowship in joint replacement and trauma surgery was taken at the National University in Singapore, and he holds a DePuy and J&J fellowship in total joint arthroplasty. Those four post-MS qualifications between them cover the same two areas, so each half of his present list rests on a separate fellowship.

He belongs to six professional bodies, national and international. In India he is a member of the Indian Orthopaedic Association, the Indian Arthroscopy Association, the Telangana Orthopaedic Surgeons Association and the Trauma Society of India. Outside India he belongs to the American Academy of Ortho Surgery and to World Orthopaedic Surgeon. The trauma society and the arthroscopy association on that list correspond to the two parts of his operating range that are not primary joint replacement.