Chitranjan Singh Ranawat
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Chitranjan Singh Ranawat is a hip surgeon. He is based in New York and is of Indian origin. He is a winner of Padma Bhushan
, which is one of the highest civilian honours of India. He has also authored over 200 papers on orthopaedics.
He had operated on former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
’s knee. He is the Director of the Orthopeadic Surgery and Centre for Total Joint Replacement in New York.
Dr Ranawat reportedly uses a cemented total knee replacement in which the components are fixed with a bone cement called methy-methacrylate. Dr Ranawat uses the PFC Modular Knee system he has developed after years of research with thousands of cases. He is the co-developer of the Total Condylar Knee and the PFC Sigma High flexion knee. Dr. Ranawat also helped design the Ranawat-Burstein Total Hip System and Accolade Hip System. Dr. Ranawat is a consistent frontrunner on New York magazine's list of top 100 orthopedic surgeons in the country. Dr Ranawat was born in Mewar
. He studied in India and in the mid-sixties migrated to USA.
He is also a philanthropist and runs a public trust "Ranawat Foundation Trust", meant to render services for humanity. The trust has recently provided aid to a local hospital in Pune. Doctors, who have worked with him described the noted surgeon as one of the best in the world with a healing touch.
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
, which is one of the highest civilian honours of India. He has also authored over 200 papers on orthopaedics.
He had operated on former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...
’s knee. He is the Director of the Orthopeadic Surgery and Centre for Total Joint Replacement in New York.
Dr Ranawat reportedly uses a cemented total knee replacement in which the components are fixed with a bone cement called methy-methacrylate. Dr Ranawat uses the PFC Modular Knee system he has developed after years of research with thousands of cases. He is the co-developer of the Total Condylar Knee and the PFC Sigma High flexion knee. Dr. Ranawat also helped design the Ranawat-Burstein Total Hip System and Accolade Hip System. Dr. Ranawat is a consistent frontrunner on New York magazine's list of top 100 orthopedic surgeons in the country. Dr Ranawat was born in Mewar
Mewar
Mewar is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India. It includes the present-day districts of Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and some of the part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The region was for centuries a Rajput kingdom that later...
. He studied in India and in the mid-sixties migrated to USA.
He is also a philanthropist and runs a public trust "Ranawat Foundation Trust", meant to render services for humanity. The trust has recently provided aid to a local hospital in Pune. Doctors, who have worked with him described the noted surgeon as one of the best in the world with a healing touch.
External links
- http://www.ranawatorthopaedics.com
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