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Dr. Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan has 10 years of experience.

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Dr. Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan - Orthopaedic Surgeon & Neurosurgeon in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

EDUCATION

MBBS - Madras Medical College - 2010
FNB Spine Surgery - Ganga Medical Centre and Hospital Pvt Ltd - 2018
APSS SICOT Spine Fellowship - Berlin, Germany - 2019
MS - Orthopedics - Calicut Medical College - 2014
DNB - Orthopedics - National Board of Examination - 2016
Global Spine Diploma - AO Spine - 2020

EXPERIENCE

Senior Resident in Orthopedics May - 2014 - June - 2015
Internship in Medicine April - 2009 - May - 2010
Junior Resident in Orthopedics July - 2011 - June - 2014
Senior Resident in Spine Surgery April - 2016 - March - 2018
Senior Registrar in Spine Surgery April - 2018 - March - 2021

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST AND EXPERTISE

Spine Surgery
Low Back Pain And Degenerative Disc Disese
Osteoporosis
Orthopedics
Scoliosis Deformity Correction
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Endoscopic Spine Surgery

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1. YOUNG SCIENTIST AND RESEARCHER AWARD ARTHROCON 2016 Calicut, Kerala, Indo Korean Orthopedic Foundation. 2016
2. BEST CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD ASSICON 2018 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India for â€œThe effect of halo gravity traction in rigid deformities -a prospective analysis of 26 patients with severe spinal deformities 2018
6. APSS Best Clinical research award APSS-APPOS 2019 Incheon, Korea â€œMotion Preserving Navigated Primary Internal Fixation of Unstable C1 fracturesâ€ 2019
7. Asian Spine Journal Best Clinical Research Paper award 2019 Incheon, Korea â€œMotion Preserving Navigated Primary Internal Fixation of Unstable C1 fracturesâ€ 2019
12. Reviewer of the month award for February 2019- European Spine Journal 2019
14. Young Investigator Traveler Grant awarded by ISSLS at Spine week 2020, Melbourne, Australia. -â€œDisc â€˜Dysbiosisâ€™ as a cause of Inflammaging and Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Degeneration â€“ Revelations form Next Generation Sequencing Analysisâ€ . The grant has been shifted to 2022. 2020
19. VTI [VT Ingahalikar Gold Medal Paper] Award, ASSICON 2021, India Why do Modic Changes Result in Poor Clinical Outcomes? â€“ Novel Insights from Proteomic analysis of Lumbar discs with Modic changes. 2021
20. AO Spine Asia Pacific Inland Fellowship, July 2022, Mumbai, India [to be pursued] Hosting center Bombay hospital, Dr. Arvind G Kulkarni, Head of the Mumbai Spine Scoliosis and Disc Replacement Centre 2021
4. ASSI Travelling Fellowship Award 2019 ASSICON 2019 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 2019
5. APSS-SICOT Spine Fellowship Award 2019 APSS-APPOS 2019 Incheon, Korea Hosting center Prof. Ulrich Noeth and Dr. Miguel Alquiza in Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, StadtrandstraÃŸe 555, 13589 Berlin, Germany. 2019
8. APSS Best Basic Science research award APSS-APPOS 2019 Incheon, Korea â€œThe proteomic signature of Nucleus Pulposus in Fetal Intervertebral Discsâ€ 2019
10. BIOS 2019 Junior Fellowship BIOS 2019 2019
13. Dr Ketan Khurjekar Memorial Gold Medal Award â€“ Runner up, APSS BSS 2020, Mumbai, India â€œPreoperative Modic changes and Total End Plate Score are independent risk factor for developing postoperative surgical site infections- A single center retrospective analysis of 1124 patientsâ€ 2020
15. North American Spine Society and The Spine Journal Best Outstanding Paper 2020 â€œUncovering molecular targets for regenerative therapy in degenerative disc disease do small Leucine-Rich proteoglycans hold the key?â€ 2021
16. 2020-2021 Robert Bucholz Journal Club Grant from the JBJS Resident Education Fund. Fund [US$1,500] 2020
17. Co-Investigator of DBT grant, Government of India - Center For â€œLow Back Pain and Degenerative Disc Disease Researchâ€ Reference No BT/PR35631/MED/30/2186/2019 sanctioned [Rs.1128.32 Lakhs] to Ganga Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation. 2020
18. ASSI Young Investigator Award 2021, ASSICON 2021, India The Catastrophization Effects of an MRI Report on the Patient and Surgeon and the Benefits of Clinical Reporting - Results from an RCT and Blinded Trials 2021
3. Best poster award SICOT/ AAOS annual meeting scholarship SICOT 2018 Montreal, Canada â€œMinimally Invasive Motion- and Function-Preserving CT navigated Primary Osteosynthesis of Isolated Unstable Atlas Fractures [abstract no-49772]â€ 2018
9. Asian Spine Journal Best Basic Science Research Paper award 2019 Incheon, Korea â€œThe proteomic signature of Nucleus Pulposus in Fetal Intervertebral Discsâ€ 2019
11. North American Spine Society and The Spine Journal Best Outstanding Paper 2019 Chicago, USA â€“ â€œInflammaging Determines Health and Disease in Lumbar discs -Evidence from Differing Proteomic Signatures of Healthy, aging and Degenerating Discsâ€ 2019

PUBLICATIONS

2018 Spinal Tuberculosis â€" "Current concepts" Rajasekaran S, Soundararajan DCR, Shetty AP, Kanna RM. Spinal Tuberculosis: Current Concepts. Global Spine J. 2018 Dec;8(4 Suppl):96S-108S. doi: 10.1177/2192568218769053. Epub 2018 Dec 13. PMID: 30574444; PMCID: PMC6295815.
2018 The Effective Role of Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Subarachnoid Pleural Fistula- A Case Report and Review of Literature Soundararajan DCR, Shetty AP, Kanna RM, Rajasekaran S. The Effectiveness of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Subarachnoid Pleural Fistula: A Case Report and Literature Review. Neurospine. 2018;15(4):394â€399. doi:10.14245/ns.1836056.028
2018 Lumbar Intraspinal Osteolipoma presenting as Cauda Equina Syndrome- A case report and Review of Literature Dilip Chand Raja S, Kanna RM, Shetty AP, Rajasekaran S. Lumbar Intraspinal Osteolipoma Presenting as Cauda Equina Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Case Rep Orthop. 2018;2018:1945149. Published 2018 Oct 22. doi:10.1155/2018/1945149
2018 A Prospective Randomized Study to Analyse the Efficacy of Balanced Preemptive Analgesia in Spine Surgery Raja S DC, Shetty AP, Subramanian B, Kanna RM, Rajasekaran S. A prospective randomized study to analyze the efficacy of balanced pre-emptive analgesia in spine surgery. Spine J. 2019;19(4):569â€577. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2018.10.010
2018 Delayed postoperative spondylodiscitis in a case of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) following surgical intervention for traumatic C7-T1 bifacteal dislocation S Dilip Chand Raja, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, S Rajasekaran DOI: 10.4103/isj.isj_26_18. Indian Spine Journal
2018 "Tuberculosis of Subaxial Cervical Spine"- Chapter 9, The ASSI Monographs- Spinal Tuberculosis Aditya Bunta, Dilip Chand Raja S, Ariful Aslam, Sandip Chatterjee ISBN no: 9789388257329, Thieme publishers, January 2019
2019 Delayed presentation of Candidal Vertebral Osteomyelitis following penetrating spinal injury Dilip Chand Raja S, Rishi Mugesh K, Ajoy Prasad S, Rajasekaran S. Delayed presentation of Candidal Vertebral Osteomyelitis following penetrating spinal injury. J Clin Orthop Trauma. 2019;10(Suppl 1):S211â€S214. doi:10.1016/j.jcot.2019.02.014
2020 Motion Preserving Navigated Primary Internal Fixation of Unstable C1 Fractures Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, and Rishi Mugesh Kanna. "Motion-Preserving Navigated Primary Internal Fixation of Unstable C1 Fractures." Asian Spine Journal (2020).
2020 ISSLS Lumbar Spine Online Textbook Section 11, Chapter 14: Navigation in Spine Surgery Rajasekaran S, Dilip Chand Raja, Ajoy Prasad Shetty. http://www.wheelessonline.com/ISSLS/section-11-chapter-14-navigation-in-spine-surgery/
2020 Letter to the Editor regarding: "Degenerate-disc Infection Study with Contaminant Control (DISC): A multi-center prospective case-control trial" by Rao et al Dilip Chand Raja S, Rajasekaran S. SPINEE-D-20-00432. The Spine Journal. Accepted on May 09,2020
2020 Drug-resistant spinal tuberculosisâ€"Current concepts, challenges, and controversies. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma [2020]. Soundararajan, Dilip Chand Raja, Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran,Ajoy Prasad Shetty, and Rishi Mugesh Kanna.
2019 Cauda Equina Syndrome in an Obese Pregnant Patient Secondary to Double Level Lumbar Disc Herniation â€" A Case Report and Review of Literature S DCR, Shetty AP, Kanna RM, Rajasekaran S. Cauda equina syndrome in an obese pregnant patient secondary to double level lumbar disc herniation - A case report and review of literature. Spinal Cord Ser Cases. 2019;5:33. Published 2019 Apr 15. doi:10.1038/s41394-019-0179-7.
2019 Inflammaging Determines Health and Disease in Lumbar discs -Evidence from Differing Proteomic Signatures of Healthy, aging and Degenerating Discs Rajasekaran, S., Chitraa Tangavel, Sri Vijay Anand KS, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Sharon Miracle Nayagam, Monica Steffi Matchado, M. Raveendran, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, and K. Dharmalingam. "Inflammaging determines health and disease in lumbar discsâ€"evidence from differing proteomic signatures of healthy, aging, and degenerating discs." The Spine Journal 20, no. 1 (2020): 48-59.
2020 The proteomic signature of Nucleus Pulposus in Fetal Intervertebral Discs Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Chitraa Tangavel, Sri Vijay Anand KS, Sharon Miracle Nayagam, Monica Steffi Matchado, Raveendran Muthurajan, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, and K. Dharmalingam. "Proteomic Signature of Nucleus Pulposus in Fetal Intervertebral Disc." Asian Spine Journal (2020).
2020 Thoraco-lumbar Fracture Dislocations (TLFD) without Spinal Cord Injury â€" Classification and Principles of Management Kanna, Rishi Mugesh, Dilip Chand Raja, Ajoy P. Shetty, and Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran. "Thoracolumbar Fracture Dislocations Without Spinal Cord Injury: Classification and Principles of Management." Global Spine Journal (2019): 2192568219890568.
2020 Letter to the Editor concerning "Bacteria: back pain, leg pain and Modic sign - A surgical multicenter comparative study" by Fritzell P, et al. Dilip Chand Raja, S., Rajasekaran, S. Letter to the Editor concerning "Bacteria: back pain, leg pain and Modic signâ€"a surgical multicentre comparative study" by Fritzell P, et al. (Eur Spine J [2019]; doi:10.1007/s00586-019-06164-1). Eur Spine J 29, 1182â€"1183 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06318-6
2020 Uncovering molecular targets for regenerative therapy in degenerative disc disease: do small Leucine-Rich proteoglycans hold the key? Rajasekaran, S., Soundararajan, D.C.R., Tangavel, C., Nayagam, S.M., KS, S.V., Sunmathi, R., Matchado, M.S., Muthurajan, R., Shetty, A.P., Kanna, R.M. and Dharmalingam, K. The Spine Journal, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2020.04.011
2020 Human Intervertebral Discs Harbour a Unique Microbiome and Dysbiosis Determines Health and Disease Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan , Chitraa Tangavel , Raveendran Muthurajan , K S Sri Vijay Anand , Monica Steffi Matchado , Sharon Miracle Nayagam , Ajoy Prasad Shetty , Rishi Mugesh Kanna , K Dharmalingam. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06446-z
2020 Delayed presentation of urinoma mimicking spondylodiscitis secondary to ureteric injury Following carrot stick fracture in ankylosing spondylitis Soundararajan, Dilip Chand Raja, Anupama Maheswaran, Dinesh Kumarasamy, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, and S. Rajasekaran. Eur Spine J (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06408-5
2020 Proteomic Signatures of Healthy Intervertebral Discs From Organ Donors: A Comparison With Previous Studies on Discs From Scoliosis, Animals, and Trauma Rajasekaran Shanmuganathan, Chitraa Tangavel, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Sharon Miracle Nayagam, Monica Steffi Matchado, Raveendran Muthurajan, Sri Vijay Anand K.S, Sunmathi R, Ajoy Prasad Shetty, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, K. Dharmalingam DOI: /ns.2040056.028 Neurospine. Accepted on April 5, 2020
2020 Presence of Preoperative Modic Changes and Severity of Endplate Damage are Independent Risk Factors for Developing Postoperative Surgical Site Infection- a Retrospective Case-Control Study of 1124 patients Pradip, I., Dilip Chand Raja, S., Rajasekaran, S. et al. Eur Spine J [2020]. https//doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06581-7
2020 Part 1: Profiling Extra cellular matrix core proteome of human fetal nucleus pulposus for regenerative potential Rajasekaran S, Tangavel C, Djuric N, Raveendran M, Soundararajan DCR, Nayagam SM, Matchado MS, Anand KSSV. ci Rep. 2020 Sep 24;10(1):15684. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-72859-x. PMID: 32973250.
2020 Can Scoliotic Discs be Controls for Molecular Studies in Intervertebral Disc Research? - Insights from Proteomics Rajasekaran S, Tangavel C, Anand KSSV, Soundararajan DCR, Nayagam SM, Sunmathi R, Raveendran M, Shetty AP, Kanna RM, Pushpa BT. Global Spine J. 2020 Sep 18:2192568220959038. doi: 10.1177/2192568220959038. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32945197.
2020 Current Updates in Management of Extremity Injuries in Polytrauma A. Devendra, Gupta Nishith P,S. Dilip Chand Raja, J. Dheenadhayalan, S. Rajasekaran Published: September 24, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2020.09.031
2020 Bezold-Jarisch reflex causing bradycardia and hypotension in a case of severe dystrophic cervical kyphotic deformity: a case report and review of literature. Dilip Chand Raja S, Rajasekaran S, Sri Vijayanand KS, Shetty AP, Kanna RM. Eur Spine J. 2020 Oct 6. doi: 10.1007/s00586-020-06619-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33025190.
2020 Sporadic Intradural Extramedullary Hemangioblastoma of Cauda Equina with Large Peri-tumoral cyst- A rare presentation (accepted and page proofed) Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, Manuscript Id - IJRI_611_20. Pushpa BT, 2/9/2020, Pushpa, Dilip Chand Raja S, Rishi Mugesh Kanna, Venkata Suman Kanna, Rajasekaran S
2020 Management of Pelvic Injuries in Hemodynamically Unstable Polytrauma Patients â€" Challenges and Current Updates Ramesh Perumal; Dilip Chand Raja S; Sivakumar S. P; Dheenadhayalan Jayaramaraju; Ramesh Kumar Sen; Vivek Trikha. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, ISSN: 0976-5662.October 5,2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2020.09.035
2020 Lumbar Disc Herniation and Modic changes: A Prospective analysis of the Clinical Outcomes after Microdiscectomy Dinesh Kumaraswamy, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Sri Vijay Anand K. S., Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Ajoy Prasad Shetty T., Rishi Mugesh Kanna P., and Pushpa B. T. Global Spine Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/2192568220976089
2021 The Catastrophization Effects Of An MRI Report On The Patient And Surgeon And The Benefits Of 'Clinical Reporting' - Results From An RCT And Blinded Trials Article DOI: 10.1007/s00586-021-06809. European Spine Journal. Rajasekaran Shanmuganathan, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Pushpa B. T, Ananda Kumar Behera, Ajoy Prasad Shetty T., Rishi Mugesh Kanna.
2021 Sub-clinical Infection can be an Initiator of Inflammaging leading to Degenerative Disc Disease â€" Evidence from Host Defense Response Mechanisms - [EMID:27046784e722142c] (Accepted).European Spine Journal. S. Rajasekaran, Tangavel Chitraa, Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan, Muthurajan Raveendran, Sharon Miracle Nayagam, Sri Vijay Anand, Ajoy Prasad Shetty and Rishi Mugesh Kanna.

MEMBERSHIPS

International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology [SICOT] January - 2016 -December - 2021
Asia Pacific Spine Society [APSS] January - 2019 -December - 2021
Indian Orthopedic Association January - 2016 -December - 2021
Association of Spine Surgeons of India January - 2018 -December - 2021
International Society for Knowledge for Surgeons on Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty [ISKSAA] January - 2016 -December - 2021
Tamilnadu Orthopedic Association January - 2017 -December - 2021
AO Spine January - 2016 -December - 2021

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Qualification	MBBS, MS, DNB, FNB Spine Surgery, Global Spine Diploma, APSS SICOT Spine Fellowship
Experience	10 Years
Location	Chennai, India
Language(s) Known	English / Tamil / Malayalam / Hindi / Telugu

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