Dr. Saikat Sarkar

About Doctor DR. SAIKAT SARKAR

• Dr. Saikat Sarkar is a Spine Surgeon (Ortho) in Kolkata.
• He has an experience of 16 years in this field.
• He was awarded gold medal in MS(orthopedics) by WBOA
• In 2011 he passed MRCS from prestigious Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK and
  also cleared DNB in orthopedics
• He completed prestigious AO spine Fellowship (2013) from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Shankar Acharya.
• In 2014 he participated in Dartmouth Hitchcock Spine Fellowship, USA as WBOA Fellow under the mentorship of Professor Dr. Dilip Sengupta.
• In the year 2017, he spent 1 month in Schön Klinik Germany with professor C. Wimmer and got training in complex spinal deformity surgery being selected as international AO spine fellow.
• He was selected for prestigious IOAWOC fellowship in the subspecialty spine by Indian Orthopedic Association in 2018. As IOAWOC fellow he was trained in Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Basantkunj, New Delhi (2019)
• He was trained in minimally invasive spine surgery from Military Hospital, Chongqing, China.
• He regularly presents scientific papers in state/National and International academic conferences.
• He has delivered several lectures as state and National faculty in different programmes to train young spine surgeons.
• He is the author of the topic "Lumbar disc herniation" in internationally famous orthopedics textbook-Turek’s orthopedics: Principles and Their Applications,7th edition, published by Wolter Kluwer.
• He has contributed the chapter on Anterior Cervical Spinal Implants on Orthopedic implantology book published by Springer.
• He is known for his interest in spinal surgeries especially cervical and lumbar spine surgeries including microscopic/minimally invasive spine surgeries.
• Apart from spine he performs operations for fractures specially fractures around hip in elderly and Knee replacement surgery.

• Mohua Silver medal for Securing Highest Marks in Pharmacology in the university examination (CU).
• Gold Medal in MS (orthopedics) by WBOA.
• He was awarded several times for best paper presentation in spine in state conference