Dr. Thiagarajan Pandian — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Thiagarajan Pandian is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Healthcity in Perumbakkam, Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience. His profile records orthopedics together with spine surgery.

His list covers total knee and total hip replacement, robotic knee replacement and shoulder replacement, together with ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, rotator cuff repair and arthroscopic surgery, and on the trauma side fracture fixation, non-union repair and limb lengthening surgery.

He holds an MBBS and an MS in orthopaedics. His fellowship in arthroscopy and arthroplasty was taken at Safdarjang Hospital in New Delhi with additional training in Pune. His thesis, submitted to TNMGR University, was a short term clinical and radiological evaluation of fully hydroxyapatite coated uncemented stems in hip arthroplasty, which places his early academic work in the same field as the arthroplasty half of his present list.

His continuing education is recorded in detail and covers all three areas he practises in. He has completed the Synthesis basic and trauma course and cadaver workshops in spine, arthroplasty and arthroscopy at the MS Ramaiah Advanced Learning Centre, a knee arthroscopy workshop at SRMC in 2019, the Ranawat Orthopaedic Conference in 2020 and a spine workshop at Ganga Hospital in 2022.

His posts have been across the Chennai teaching hospitals: Sree Balaji Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chettinad Medical College and Research Institute, and Madha Medical College.