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UK based orthopaedic surgeon to start stem cell research

Published On : 20 May 2017   |  Reported By : Canaranews Network


Udupi: UK based orthopaedic surgeon Dr Anand A Shetty will start a clinical application of stem cell research in the city in colaboration with Nitte University. Curing cancer and other related ailments is the main aim Dr Anand, who hails from Asode near Koteshwara in Udupi district.

Dr Shetty was honoured with the ’Outstanding Clinical Excellence’ award by the UK’s House of Lords this year. Dr Shetty is winner of a host of awards including the prestigious Hunterian Surgical Medal and Hunterian Professorship for 2017 awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for his research on stem cells in particular cartilage repair. Only four Indians have received this award so far.

A knee surgeon and director of stem cell research at Canterbury Christ Church University, Dr Shetty’s main interest lies in stem cell research, cartilage transplant, accelerated bone healing, and robotics in minimally invasive surgery.

Dr. shetty said that Indian physicians, are most respected and trusted in the UK. If a British citizen has a health issue, he first tries to see an Indian doctor. Racism may have been there when he first entered the profession, but it changed in 1996 when the Labour government came to power, he added. Apart from his surgical innovations, Dr Shetty is also the first surgeon to use robotics in arthroscopic knee surgery and gel-based cartilage repair surgery.







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