Prof. Dr. Rabindra L Pradhan
Consultant
Prof. Dr. Rabindra L Pradhan is currently the Chief of Spine Services and Head of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital. He completed his MBBS in 1991 and his postgraduate studies PhD in 2001, from Akita University, Japan. He has been working from the inception of the Department since 2001 and was instrumental in expanding modern spine surgery at KMCTH after finishing his fellowships in spine surgery at various reputed international institutes. He is one of the very few Spine surgeons in Nepal who is Asia Pacific regional faculty of AOSpine and is currently the country leader of the largest spine group in the world. He has keen interest in expanding spine services all over Nepal and has been the chairman of various seminars and hands –on workshops. He has also conducted two live spine surgery courses in Nepal as the organizing chairman. He is actively involved in Orthopaedic research and teaching and is faculty for the AO PEER course program in the Asia Pacific region. At present he is working as a Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Mediciti Hospital.
Education
Area of Focus
Language spoken
- ENGLISH
- NEPALI
- HINDI
- Fellowship in Spinal Surgery Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, New Delhi Jan-March 2008
- Visiting Scholar in Spinal Surgery, Japan (Under Prof K Abumi, Sapporo, Japan) Hokkaido University School
- Tohuku University-Nepal Orthopaedic Fellowship in Spine Surgery in Sendai, Japan in 2017
- Fellowship in Endoscopic and MIS Spine surgery Nanoori Suwon Hospital, South Korea June- Sep 2017
- Degenerative spine diseases
- Complex spinel trauma and deformity
- Spinal cord tumors
- Life Member:
- Life Member of Nepal Orthopaedic Association.
- Life Member of Nepal Medical Association.
- Life Member of Association of Spine Surgeons of India
- Life Member of Asia Pacific Spine Society
Special awards;
- Recipient of International Scholar Council of Science Editors, USA for the year 2009
Various presentations as International faculty:
- Many presentations as Faculty at AOSpine Principles and advanced courses and symposiums held in Nepal from 2012-2018
- 4th Sir Ganga Ram Spine Operative course 7-10 August 2019, New Delhi, India
- Special lecture at Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan 12 April 2019
- Invited speaker 12th combined APSS-APPOS meeting, April 4-6, 2019, Incheon, Korea
- Speaker at Japan Spine Surgery Research 18-20 April 2019, Yokohama, Japan
- International Faculty – International spine and spinal cord conference, (ISSICON) 10-13th October 2019, New Delhi, India
- International Faculty – International spine and spinal cord conference, (ISSICON) 5-7th October 2018, Chennai, India
- Invited speaker – APSS annual meeting June 7-9, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan
Current Positions:
- Country Leader – AOSpine Indian subcontinent council
- Member – Research Committee - Asia Pacific Spine Society
- Editorial Board – Asian Spine Journal
- Board Member – Nepal – Asia Pacific Spine Society
- President Elect– Nepal Orthopaedic Association
- President – Association of Spine Surgeons of Nepal
- Past positions:
- Vice President – Association of Spine Surgeons of Nepal (2016-2018)
- Founder General Secretary – Association of Spine Surgeons of Nepal (2012-2016)
- Editor-in-chief Nepal Orthopaedic Association Journal (NOAJ) 2009-2015
- Editor-in-chief Journal - Nepal Medical Association (JNMA) 2011-2013
- Senior Vice President - Nepal Orthopaedic Association 2007-2019
- Vice President - Nepal Orthopaedic Association 2015-2017
- General Secretary - Nepal Orthopaedic Association 2008-2010
- Executive Editor - Journal of Nepal Medical Association 2005- 2009.
- Treasurer – Nepal Orthopaedic Association 2006-2008
- Jt. Treasurer - Nepal Orthopaedic Association 2004-2006
