Dr. Arvind J Vatkar — Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist in Mumbai

Dr. Arvind J Vatkar is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist at Medicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai, in Mumbai, with more than 22 years of experience. His profile records spine surgery together with orthopedics.

His list covers the column from the neck down: cervical and lumbar spine surgery, microdiscectomy and discectomy, laminectomy, spinal fusion surgery, spinal deformity correction, spinal tumor surgery, spinal trauma surgery, and vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.

His training is dated and the second half of it was taken in the United Kingdom. He read MBBS at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Mumbai between 2002 and 2007 and took his MS in orthopaedics at Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi between June 2011 and June 2013. He was an international training fellow reading for the MCh in spine at Stepping Hill Hospital under Stockport NHS Trust from Aug 2019 to Feb 2021, then senior spinal fellow at the Queen's Medical Center, Nottingham University Hospitals, from Feb 2021 to Aug 2022, an RCS approved post. His advanced spine fellowships are recorded at Nottingham, Edge Hill University and Stockport, and he holds ATLS certification from the American College of Surgeons.

He has authored or co-authored 39 peer-reviewed publications in PubMed-indexed journals including the European Spine Journal, Asian Spine Journal and Spine Deformity, gave a podium presentation at BASS 2022 on vertebral body tethering in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and was a faculty speaker at NMOACON 2022.

He is a life member of the British Association of Spine Surgeons, the Association of Spine Surgeons of India, the Bombay Orthopaedic Society and the Indian Orthopaedic Association, and is registered with the General Medical Council.