Curriculum Vitae Name Nationality Race : Rukmanikanthan a/l Shanmugam : Malaysian : Indian Date of Birth : 13 th August 1975 Age at next birthday : 40 years Current Address : 11, Jalan 16/4 Sekyen 16, Petaling Jaya, 46200 Selangor. Marital Status Language Current Position : Married : Fluent in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Tamil. : Senior lecturer and Orthopaedic surgeon, UMMC Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UMSC Deformity and Ilizarov surgery Head of Foot and Ankle surgery unit UMMC Head of Biomechanical testing lab, NOCERAL MMC registration : 39776 NSR registration : 133342 Educational Background: Primary school : Sekolah rendah kebangsaan Methodist Parit Buntar Lower secondary school: Sekolah menenggah Methodist (ACS) Parit Buntar Upper primary school : Sekolah menengah panglima bukit gantang, Parit Buntar : Kolej Komuniti Mertajam, Bukit Mertajam Undergraduate degree : University Science Malaysia with degree in medicine (MD) Graduated year 2001.
Postgraduate degree : University of Malaya with masters in orthopaedic surgery Graduated year 2009. Fellowships : AO research fellowship, AO institute Davos (2012) - Biomechanics. : Advanced trauma life support for doctors (May 2012) : Fellowship in Deformity correction and Ilizarov surgery, University of Malaya. : Fellowship in Foot and Ankle surgery, University of Malaya. : Fellowship in Foot and Ankle surgery, University Hospital of South Manchester, UK : Clinical Observership in Limb Reconstruction Surgery, Liverpool, U.K : Clinical Attachment in Foot and Ankle Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals U.K Awards : Sijil Perkhidmatan Cemerlang 2011. (Excellent service award 2011) Special Interest / Subspeciality: - Foot and Ankle surgery - Deformity Correction (Ilizarov, TSF, Monolateral fixators) - Biomechanics Employment Background: - Joined Public services department of Malaysia under Ministry of Health in the year 2001 (June 25 th ). - Started work in Sarawak General hospital at the same time as a house officer - Continued to work in Sarawak General Hospital with the Orthopaedic department after completion of house officer training till 17 th December 2006 - Transferred to Selayang Hospital Orthopaedic department on the 18 th December 2006 - University Hospital (University of Malaya) for the purpose of completing masters in Orthopaedic surgery. * Served as chief resident of orthopaedic trauma team (1 st Jan to 31 st Dec 2008) - Hospital Kuala Lipis as orthopaedic surgeon and head of unit (15 th June 2009 to 15 th January 2010) - University of Malaya joined as senior lecturer in the department of orthopaedic surgery (18 th January 2010 onwards)
Publications and Research: - Jehovah s Witness. Is it a contraindication for wide resection of primary malignant bone tumour? A case report. (Poster presentation at Combined meeting of Malaysian Orthopaedic Association annual general meeting / Anual Scientific meeting & Annual Congress of the WENMISS 2009). - Development of a new external finger fixator to correct flexion contracture (Poster presentation at the XIVth Congress of the federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand). - Distal Radius Morphometry in the Malaysian Population. (Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 2008 Vol 2 No 2- co- author). - A Biomechanical Study of Interlocking Nail in Relation to Fracture Configuration. (Thesis research) - Gold medal in INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPO UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA 2010 for Continuous passive movement (CPM) machine for patient s on Ilizarov external fixator. - Bronze medal in INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPO UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA 2010 for Stress radiographic device for quantifying posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) laxity. - A histological comparison of the cartilage quality in the progression of osteoarthritis between biomechanical and chemical induction in rats. (MOA 2010) - Comparing the in-vitro mechanical properties of articular cartilage in two osteoarthritic induction model: monosodium idioacetate (MIA) injection and Anterior cruciate ligament transaction (ACLT) (MOA 2010) - Continuous passive movement (CPM) Machine for patients on Ilizarov external fixator. (MOA 2010) - THE DIFFERENT PREPARATIONS OF HUMAN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE (HAM) AS A POTENTIAL CELL CARRIER FOR CHONDROCYTES (ecm proceedings, 2010). - PREDICTIVE FACTORS FOR TIBIA NON UNION (ORS 2011, poster presentation) - PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP) ENHANCES BONE HEALING IN NON-UNITED CRITICAL SIZED DEFECTS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY INVOLVING RABBIT MODELS (Injury 2011) - A BIOMECHANICAL STUDY COMPARING PLATE FIXATION USING UNICORTICAL AND BICORTICAL SCREWS IN TRANSVERSE METACARPAL FRACTURE MODELS SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC LOADING (JHSE, 2011) - Pattern of distal radius fracture in malaysian children. Asim AM, Noor Fadzilah R, Rukmanikanthan S, Saw A. :Med J Malaysia. 2012 Oct;67(5):483-6. - The Safety and Strength of a Novel Medial, Partial Non-Threaded Pedicle Screw: A Cadaveric and Biomechanical Investigation. ; Kwan MK, Chan CY, Saw LB, Shanmugam R, Lenke LG.; J Spinal Disord Tech. 2013 Sep 27. [Epub ahead of print] - Histology, glycosaminoglycan level and cartilage stiffness in monoiodoacetate-induced osteoarthritis: comparative analysis with anterior cruciate ligament transection in rat model and
human osteoarthritis.; Naveen SV, Ahmad RE, Hui WJ, Suhaeb AM, Murali MR, Shanmugam R, Kamarul T.; Int J Med Sci. 2013 Dec 21;11(1):97-105. doi: 10.7150/ijms.6964. ecollection 2014. - A Biomechanical Comparison between Taylor's Spatial Frame and Ilizarov External Fixator.; Tan B, Shanmugam R, Gunalan R, Chua Y, Hossain G, Saw A. ; Malays Orthop J. 2014 Jul;8(2):35-9. doi: 10.5704/MOJ.1407.012. - Accuracy, Consistency, and Reproducibility of the Triaxial Accelerometer in the ipod Touch: A Pilot Study. ; Khoo Chee Han C, Shanmugam RA, Choon Siew Kit D.; JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2014 Nov 24;2(4):e39. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.3008. - Angular stable lateral plating is a valid alternative to conventional plate fixation in the proximal phalanx. A biomechanical study. ; Shanmugam R, Ernst M, Stoffel K, Fischer MF, Wahl D, Richards RG, Gueorguiev B. ; Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2015 Jun;30(5):405-10. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2015.03.019. Epub 2015 Mar 27. - Major surgery in an osteosarcoma patient refusing blood transfusion: case report. ; Dhanoa A, Singh VA, Shanmugam R, Rajendram R.; World J Surg Oncol. 2010 Nov 8;8:96. doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-96. - Prospects of implant with locking plate in fixation of subtrochanteric fracture: experimental demonstration of its potential benefits on synthetic femur model with supportive hierarchical nonlinear hyperelastic finite element analysis.; Latifi MH, Ganthel K, Rukmanikanthan S, Mansor A, Kamarul T, Bilgen M. ; Biomed Eng Online. 2012 Apr 30;11:23. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-11-23. Erratum in: Biomed Eng Online. 2012;11:41. Ganthel, Kunalan [added]. Courses and workshops attended: 1) Operating room personals course (5 th to 7 th July 2002 in Sarawak General Hospital) 2) Orthopaedic trauma seminar (13 th to 14 th October 2001 in Sarawak General Hospital) 3) Update of heart failure management : from cell to bedside (30 th to 31 st March 2002 in Crowne Plaza Riverside, Kuching) 4) Paediatric Orthopaedic update course 2004 (11 th to 12 th December 2004 in Sarawak General Hospital) 5) AO principles of operative fracture treatment (2 nd to 4 th March 2004) 6) Orthopaedic trauma course (OTC) 2006 (18 th to 21 st July 2006 in University Malaya) 7) The knee from A-Z knee Arthroscopy & Arthroplasty meeting (8 th to 9 th July 2006 in Kuala Lumpur) 8) Midas Rex introductory course (12 th March 2005) 9) 35 th Annual General meeting & Annual Scientific meeting of MOA (12 th to 15 th May 2005) 10) 36 th MOA AGM / Annual Scientific meeting & 2 nd APOA Trauma Section Meeting (1 st to 4 th June 2006) 11) 38 th MOA AGM / Annual Scientific meeting 12) Orthopaedic Scientific meeting, Orthopaedic update 1 (11 th to 12 th October 2003) 13) The National Sports Medicine Symposium 2003 (11 th to 13 th Sept 2003) 14) Primary Total knee Arthroplasty Course 2006 (24 th to 25 th April 2006) 15) Tendon Course and workshop (23 rd to 24 th November 2007)
16) Education for Health Professionals Series 1 Seminar and Workshop : Foot Rehabilitation (6 th Oct 2007) 17) Biomechanics course 2007 (3 rd to 4 th March 2007) 18) National Symposium of management in hand and upper limb injuries 2007 19) A short course in Good Medical Practice (6 th to 7 th August 2007) 20) 1 st HTAR cervical spine trauma course (25 th to 26 th April 2008) 21) Seminar 1 st National Orthopaedic Oncology 2009 what s new in musculoskeletal orthopaedic oncology (20 th to 22 nd Feb 2009) 22) Biomechanics course 2009 (7 th to 8 th March 2009) 23) 5 th Survival skills Course in Orthopaedic Clinical Examination (14 th March 2009) 24) Foot and ankle course 2009 (28 th to 29 th March 2009) 25) Ipoh Spinal Rehab update. (13 to 14 th Nov 2009) 26) Certified Medical Indipendent Assessor course Kuching (2 nd to 5 th Nov Passed) 27) Medical publication course (UMMC) 28) Training Programme for new lecturers (TPNL) course UM 29) Curriculum Design and Assestment (UM, 21 st Jun 2010) 30) ecm conference, Davos, Switzerland (28-30 th Jun 2010) 31) ORS (long beach California- poster presentation (13-16 Jan, 2011). 32) May hand and foot meet- workshop and conference (may 2011). 33) AOTrauma Course - Foot and Ankle (6-8 June 2011). 34) Indian Orthopaedic Association Conference 2014, Hyderabad, India (23-24 Nov2014)- Speaker and instructor 35) Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association Meeting 2017 (Malaysia) Invited speaker and instructor 36) 6 th Limb deformity correction course 2017 (Malaysia)- organizing chairman and speaker. 37) NOCERAL trauma course 2017 speaker 38) 1 st APOA foot and ankle update course 2017 invited speaker 39) Asami International conference (Lisbon) 2017 paper presentation 40) Ipoh foot and ankle Ilizarov course 2017 invited speaker 41) UKM foot and ankle course Invited speaker 42) Kuala Lumpur international wound symposium 2017 invited speaker 43) Basic trauma course 2017 invited speaker 44) Sudanese Orthopaedic surgeons association international conference 2017 invited speaker Courses organized: 1) 38 th MOA AGM (AV committee) 2) Kuching Orthopaedic trauma Meeting Back to Basic (29 th to 1 st Dec 2006- committee member) 3) Orthopaedic trauma course (OTC) 2008 (15 th to 18 th July 2008- as committee member) 4) AO Minimally Invasive Osteosynthesis Course 2008 (2 nd to 4 th April 2008) 5) Basic Principles of Fracture Management Course 19 th to 20 th June 2008. 6) Clinical Co-ordinator for MBBS exam 2010
7) Limb deformity Correction course (7 th -9 th Jun 2010, UMMC) 8) Orthopaedic trauma course 2010 9) AO Trauma course : Paediatric fractures (21-23 Sept 2010) 10) Vetting committee member for part one exam for masters in surgery, orthopaedics and ENT. 2010 11) Publication course UM (2011) 12) Orthopaedic trauma course (2011) 13) Basic Principals of fracture management (2011) 14) MBBS clinical exam co-ordinator for Orthopaedics (2012). 15) 3 rd Deformity Correction course (May 2013- Speaker) 16) 2 nd foot and ankle Update course 2013 (July 2013- Speaker). 17) Orthopaedic trauma course 2013. (July 2013 speaker). 18) UKM foot and ankle international symposium (23 rd to 26 th September 2013) speaker 19) ASEAN Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine Congress 2013 (6 to 9 th Sept 2013) - speaker 20) 4 th University Malaya limb deformity correction course (22 nd to 25 th April 2014)Speaker and organizing commiittee 21) 5 th Limb Deformity correction course (21 st to 25 th April 2015)- course Chairman, speaker. 22) Basic biomechanics course 2015 (7 th to 8 th May 2015)- Course chairman, speaker. 23) Combined UKM-UM Foot and Ankle Cadaveric Course 2015 (10 th and 11 th Sept 2015)- Course Chairman and Speaker. 24) 6 th Limb Deformity Correction Course (2017) Student Supervision: 1) Fong Tuck Shin : Masters Thesis Title : Study comparing the biomechanical strength of unicortical and bicortical plate-screw fixation in transverse metacarpal fracture models. 2) Kunalan a/l Gunthel @ Annamalai : Biomechanical Comparison Of Condylar Locking Plate To Angle Blade Plate And Dynamic Condylar Screw 3) Wong Jia Hui : Masters research project : A Study on the effects of Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) and Chondrogenic MSC in Osteoarthritis (OA) knees in rats model. 4) Chong Ying Chyi : Comparison of unicortical screw plate and bicortical compression plate systems 5) Rajiv Rampal A/L Lekhraj Rampal : Biomechanical study on percutaneous corticotomy in caprine tibia. 6) Ng Wai Leong: Biomechanical comparison of oblique wire fixation for Ilizarov frame.
7) Dr. Tiong Kung Lung: the effectiveness of a novel foot drop prevention splinting technique for use in patients with ilizarov external fixator 8) Dr. Lee : Solid state cryotherapy system for post operative pain management. Lectures and talks given: 1) Stereolithography as an adjunct in surgery (Hospital CME) 2) Management of Diabetic foot (CME for houseofficers) 3) Biomechanics of plating and ILN (Masters Ortho teaching) 4) Examination of foot and ankle (MBBS course teaching) 5) Accurate Radiological evaluation (TSF course, 9-10 June 2011) 6) Minimally invasive corticotomy and osteotomy (TSF course, 9-10 June 2011) 7) Mechanical stability between external fixators (TSF course, 9-10 June 2011) 8) Accessories for intra and post operative care (Deformity correction course, 2010) 9) Basic biomechanics (TEG teaching) 10) Radiological evaluation (International Deformity Correction course 2012) 11) Foot and Ankle equinus deformity (International Deformity Correction course 2012) 12) How to evaluate stability of fixation and fixators frame (International Deformity Correction course 2012) 13) Posteior tibialis dysfunction how to assess. (2 nd foot and ankle update course 2013) 14) Insertional achilles tendinitis. (2 nd foot and ankle update course 2013) 15) Myths or Syndesmotic fixation (AO trauma course Malaysia Sept 2013 speaker) 16) Post Polio Foot (UKM foot and ankle international symposium Sept 2012 speaker) 17) Minimally invasive hallux valgus correction (UKM foot and ankle international symposium Sept 2012 speaker). 18) ASAMI Malaysia conference 2015 (27 th to 29 th August 2015)-Invited speaker and member 19) UKM UM foot and ankle Cadaver course 2015 (UKM)- guest speaker and faculty member (3 rd to 4 th Sept 2015) 20) UKM-UM foot and ankle Cadaver course 2015 (UM)- Course chairman (10 th to 11 th Sept 2015) 21) APOA 2017: Role and Relevence of negative pressure wound dressing (Invited speaker) 22) APOA 2017: Management of Osteomyelitis in diabetic foot (invited speaker) 23) APOA 2017 :Infected Non union after failed arthroplasty (Invited speaker) 24) APOA 2017 :Offloading for diabetic foot wounds (Invited speaker) 25) APOA 2017 :Principals of casting (Invited speaker) 26) APOA 2017 :Hexapod external fixator (Invited speaker) 27) APOA 2017 :Ilizarov and TSF workshop (faculty member) 28) 6 th Limb Deformity Correction Course : Mechanical, Anatomical axes, normal bone alignment (Speaker)
29) 6 th Limb Deformity Correction Course : Sagital and coronal plain deformities (Speaker) 30) 6 th Limb Deformity Correction Course : Hexapod multi axial external fixator (speaker) 31) 6 th Limb Deformity Correction Course : Congenital tibia pseudoarthrosis (Speaker) 32) NOCERAL trauma course (2017)- distal femur fractures 33) NOCERAL trauma course (2017) principals of external fixator 34) 1 st APOA foot and ankle update course 2017 Weil s osteotomy 35) ASAMI international Conference 2017 new classification for osteotomies 36) Ipoh foot and ankle Ilizarov course (2017) Basics of TSF 37) Ipoh foot and ankle Ilizarov course (2017) TSF of foot and ankle problems 38) UKM foot and ankle course (2017) Talo Navicular osteotarthritis 39) Kuala Lumpur international wound symposium (2017) Foot deformities 40) Sudanese Orthopaedic Association international conference (2017) Foot drop splint 41) Sudanese Orthopaedic Association international conference (2017) complications of high tibial osteotomy 42) Sudanese Orthopaedic Association international conference (2017) indications for high tibial osteotomy 43) 11 th International Arthroplasty Conference, Cairo, Egypt (2018) Fusion for infected TKR 44) 11 th International Arthroplasty Conference, Cairo, Egypt (2018) Evolution of osteotomy around the knee Extra Curricular activities: 1) Yang Dipertua Persatuan Kebudayaan India (USM 1997/98) 2) Photo exhibition during 2003 Kuching festival joint arts, calligraphy, photography and stamps exhibition (8 th to 16 th August 2003) 3) Photo exhibition during joint arts, calligraphy, photography and stamps exhibition (14 th to 21 st August 2004, Kuching) 4) Life Member of Malaysian Medical Association 5) Life Member of the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 6) Member and Auditor of Malaysian Tissue Banking Society 7) ASAMI Malaysia committee member 8) Malaysian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery (MOFAS) committee member. 9) APOA Malaysian Chapter council member. Interests and abilities: - Team player - Leadership qualities - Keen interest in: Computer technology, Photography, Electronics and Mechanical designs.