Dr. Vidyadhara S

Dr.  Vidyadhara S is the HOD - Spine Care in Manipal Hospital, HAL Airport Road. Dr. Vidyadhara S focuses exclusively on spine surgeries and performs about 1000 procedures every year.  He has practiced spine surgery solely for the last two decades. He has performed more than 9500 spinal surgeries independently in this time frame successfully. He had a very successful academic career winning more than 30 medals and awards at national and international levels and also more than 35 international publications in indexed journals as of Jun 2017. He has been serving in the editorial board of four international indexed journals and also in the reviewer board of numerous journals. In his 15 years of career, He has worked in most reputed centers of excellence in spine surgery across the globe. He had a very distinguished academic and clinical career and has been awarded the ISCA Young Scientist Award from the then President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in 2006, Lester Lowe SICOT Award in 2007 and ISSLS Best Research Award in 2010. In 2012, Dr.  Vidyadhara S was also recognized as the third Indian winning the prestigious SRS Traveling Fellowship to visit the best centers for Spine Surgery in the USA. Dr.  Vidyadhara S is fifth Indian and first from Karnataka to have been awarded active fellowship of Scoliosis Research Society of USA.