! 1/6 VENKATANARAYANAN GANAPATHY FRCS(C) Ortho; FAAOS; M.B., B.S Director of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Univ. of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Assistant Prof. Orthopaedics & Spine Surgery, Erlanger Health System 1010 East Third Street, Suite 202, Chattanooga, TN 37403 Office: 423-265-2233; Fax: 423-756-8265 ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Nov 17 -Current Director Orthopaedic Spine Surgery & Assistant professor, Orthopaedics Univ. Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, TN, USA Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Erlanger Health System July 14 -Nov 17 Assistant professor Orthopaedics (board certified) & Neurosurgery SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA Sep 06 -June 07 Jan 03 -Aug 06 Jan 02 -Dec 02 July 98-Feb 99 Emergency Physician, Soldier s Memorial Hospital, Middleton, NS, Canada Family physician-hospitalist, Hant s Community Hospital, Windsor, NS, Canada (Ambulatory care services, In-patient care) Clinical Associate in Neonatology, IWK Grace Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada (Jan 2002-Jan 2003) Family Practice, Rural Tamil Nadu, India Outpatient care, minor surgery, emergency medicine. FELLOWSHIP TRAINING Aug 13 -Feb 14 July 12 -Jul 13 Complex Spine surgery fellowship-university of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Complex Spine Surgery fellowship (Combined Ortho-Neuro), University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre London, Ontario, Canada RESIDENCY TRAINING July 07 -June 12 Resident Orthopaedic Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada
! 2/6 POSTGRADUATE EXPERIENCE May 98 -June 98 Basic surgical trainee (A-FRCS), Dept. of General Surgery, Stanley Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India Feb 98 -April 98 Clinical associate, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India General Surgery-Basic surgical trainee General Medicine Nov 98 -Dec 98 Clinical associate, Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Madras, India Supervisor: Dr. Mathew Samuel Kalarikal (interventional Cardiologist) UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION July 92 -Dec 96' Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B., B.S)-English Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, (SRMC & RI) Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India. Jan 97 -Jan 98 Rotating Resident Internship, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (SRMC & RI), Madras, India (Jan 1997-Jan1998) EXAMS & CERTIFICATION 2016 American Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery 2013 1. USMLE Step 1 2. USMLE Step 2 CK 3. USMLE Step 2CS 4. USMLE Step 3 (ECFMG Certified) 2012 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC) Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery, Canada 2010 AO Advanced Certification Course, Toronto, CA 2008 AO Basic Certification Course, Toronto, CA 2006 1. Advanced trauma life support 2. Basic cardiac life support 3. Advanced cardiac life support (re-certification) 2005 Board Certified in Family Medicine, Canada
! 3/6 2003 Advanced Airway Management for Rural/Emergency Physician course 2002 1. Clinician Assessment and Enhancement Program (CAPE) assessment 2. Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada qualifying exam part-ii (LMCC) 3. NALS- Neonatal advanced life support (re-certification) 4. S.T.A.B.L.E provider course (Neonatal) 2001 Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada qualifying exam part-i 2000 1. ACLS- Advanced Cardiac Life support 2. PALS- Paediatric Advanced Life Support 1999 1. Medical Council of Canada evaluating exam 2. Test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL) 1998 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B., B.S) ACADEMIC HONOURS & AWARDS 2010 Best Medical Student teacher, Orthopaedic Surgery, Dalhousie University 2008 Runner up, Best presentation & research, Annual Orthopaedic research day Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University 2007 Best proposal for Annual Orthopaedic research day, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University 1996 Runner up, General Surgery Medal examination, SRMC & RI, India 1995 Best Performance in Ophthalmology Merit certificate, SRMC & RI, India 1993. Certificate of merit for dissertation on Diaphragms of the Human Body, Association of Anatomists of India, SRMC & RI, India 1993. Third prize, Inter-Medical quiz, Madras Medical College, India 1993. V.R. Ramanatha Iyer Memorial Gold Medal in Anatomy, SRMC & RI, India Contributed original medical illustrations for textbooks of Anatomy & Physiology INVITED SPEAKER 2018 Orthopaedic Symposium-Topic: Management of Adult Spinal Deformity UT Erlanger College of Medicine, Chattanooga, TN
! 4/6 2018 Annual Family Medicine Symposium-Topic: Indications of Spine Surgery Univ. Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, TN 2015 Preventing achy, breaks bones -Osteoporosis & Management Memorial Medical Center, Oct 2015, Springfield, IL 2014 Lunch with the doctor Spine Surgery: Why, How, When & When Not SIU School of Medicine, Oct 2014, Springfield, IL 2013 Thoracolumbar injuries in trauma Annual London Health Sciences Trauma Program Meeting, London, Ontario, Canada 2012 Interesting spine cases, presentation Centre for Spinal Disorders, Thornton, Colorado, USA POSTER PRESENTATIONS 2017 Adjacent segment disease following axial lumbar inter body fusion with percutaneous pedicle screw fixation (Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 2017) MEETING PRESENTATIONS 2011 Frontal Plane alignment in Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty Resident research presentation, Annual Yabsley Day Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2010 Atlantic Spine Society Annual Meeting, Ankylosing Spondylitis: Stoop to Conquer Nova Scotia, Canada 2007-2010 Dalhousie Department of Surgery Annual Resident Research day Frontal plane alignment in Computer Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada PEER REVIEW 2018 Editorial review board, Spine (a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary Journal) 2018-2021 Associate editor, Spine panel, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2012 Canadian Spine Society 2013, program committee, abstracts review
! 5/6 PUBLICATIONS 2018 Safety, cost and effectiveness of low dose systemic combined with local Tranexamic acid vs High dose Systemic Tranexamic acid in adult spine deformity -A Multicenter observational cohort pilot study (in progress) 2018 Adjacent Level Disease Following Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation (manuscript in submission) 2017 Influence of sagittal balance and spinopelvic parameters on the outcome Of patients surgically treated for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis Ingrid Radovanovic, Jennifer C Urquhart, Ganapathy V, Fawaz Siddiqi, Kevin R Gurr, Stewart I Bailey, Christopher S Bailey J Neurosurg Spine. 2017 Jan 20: 1-6 2015 Systematic review of the management of adjacent segment disease in the lumbar and cervical spine (in progress) 2013 Hardware Failures and subsequent economic considerations in Adult Cervico-Thoracic ASIA-A Complete Spinal Cord Injury (Submitted: supervisor Dr. Chris Bailey) 2008. Evidence based indications for ankle arthroscopy (Peer reviewed) Glazebrook M, Ganapathy V, Bridge M, Stone J, Allard JP Arthroscopy. 2009 Dec; 25(12): 1478-90 2002 Early cystic lung disease in a premature neonate with perinatally acquired Capnocytophaga. (Peer reviewed) Howlett AA, Mailman TL, Ganapathy V J Perinatol. 2007 Jan; 27(1): 68-70 NON-CLINICAL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 2012-2014 Masters degree program, Health Professions Education (MHPE) Maastricht University, NL 1993 Dissertation: Diaphragms of the body (Peer reviewed) Association of Anatomists, Tamil Nadu, India MEDICAL LICENSURE Aug 17 -Present Dec 17 -Present Active license, Orthopaedic Surgery, Tennessee, USA Active license, Orthopaedic Surgery, Texas Medical Board, USA
! 6/6 April 14 -Present Active license, Orthopaedic Surgery, State of Illinois, USA MEMBERSHIPS & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1. Emerging Leaders Program, American Orthopaedic Association 2. AOSpine 3. Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery 4. International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery 5. North American Spine Society (NASS) 6. Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) 7. Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA) 8. American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 9. The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) HOSPITAL PRIVILEGES Erlanger Health System HUMANITARIAN SERVICE INTERESTS Rotary Club International- Paul Harris Fellow