TEN STOPS.one spine.

Stop 1 of 10

Honorary Spine Fellow

Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC)

New Delhi

Mar – May 2014

First fellowship abroad. Three months in a dedicated spinal injuries centre, working through trauma volume that reshaped how he sequences acute cervical cases.

Stop 2 of 10

Principal & Advance Course

AO Spine

Kathmandu

The AO Spine principles ladder, taken back to back. The classification language here still underpins how every case on this site is described.

Stop 3 of 10

Clinical Visitor, Spine Surgery & Oncology

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

Birmingham

Sep – Nov 2014

Three months on a spine oncology service — tumour resection and reconstruction planning in a setting where the imaging arrives before the patient does.

Stop 4 of 10

AO Spine Asia Pacific Fellowship

Ganga Hospital

Coimbatore

Oct – Nov 2015

Deformity and trauma at scale under Prof. Rajasekaran. The 582-case tuberculosis series that followed grew directly out of this rotation.

MentorProf. S. Rajasekaran

Stop 5 of 10

Clinical Fellowship, Spine Surgery

Sapporo Orthopaedic Hospital — Centre for Spinal Disorders

Sapporo

May – Jun 2017

Cervical pedicle screw technique at its source, with Prof. Abumi. Precision here is measured in millimetres and rehearsed before the incision.

MentorProf. Kuniyoshi Abumi

Stop 6 of 10

APSS DePuy Synthes Travelling Fellowship

National University Hospital Singapore · Seoul St. Mary's Hospital · Ganga Hospital

Singapore · Seoul · Coimbatore

Aug – Sep 2017

Three countries, three systems, one month. Comparing how each unit answers the same question: when does a spine actually need fusing?

Stop 7 of 10

Current Concepts in Spine Deformity

Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)

Shenzhen

Oct 2017

The deformity course that set the trajectory toward vertebral column resection — the operation this practice is now known for.

Stop 8 of 10

AO Spine International Fellowship

Spine Education & Research Institute (SERI)

Denver

Sep 2018

The first Bangladeshi surgeon selected for this fellowship. Same year as the APOA Young Ambassador award and the BOSCON best paper.

Stop 9 of 10

SRS Travelling Fellowship

University of Toronto Spine Program · Och Spine Hospital, Columbia University

Toronto · New York

Aug – Sep 2023

Six weeks across two of North America's highest-volume deformity programmes, twenty years after the first MBBS exam.

Stop 10 of 10

Scoliosis Week

AO Spine

Kochi

Apr 2024

The most recent stop. Now teaching on the same faculty circuits that trained him a decade earlier.