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Dr.A.K.Venkatachalam, FRCS (UK), M.Ch Orth (Liverpool), MS Orth, DNB Orth, is a consultant orthopedic surgeon in Chennai. He is a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon and Asst. Professor at the Chettinad health city, a deemed medical university near Chennai, India. He has vast experience in Joint replacements, arthroscopy and trauma having trained with leading orthopedic surgeons in the UK at top class centers like the Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, Ghent university hospital, Belgium and the American hospital, Dubai. He has pioneered several procedures in Chennai like minimal invasive knee replacements, Oxinium knee, painless surgery, Gender special knee, Proxima hip replacements, Copeland shoulder resurfacing, hi flex knee, Bilateral Oxford knee replacements to name a few. He has many publications in international journals to his credit. His websites www.kneeindia.com, www.hipsurgery.in and www.shoulderindia.com provide a plethora of multimedia information on knee, hip & shoulder operations. His current areas of interest are minimal invasive Joint replacements, computer assisted knee replacements, newer material for joint replacements, hip & shoulder resurfacing.