Dr Simon Thomas is an orthopaedic surgeon of repute based at Sant Parm…read moreanand Hospital, Civil Lines. He was Introduced into orthopaedics in 2003 by Padma Vibhushan Prof Balusankaran and esteemed Dr Mathew Varghese. He showed immense talent in academics from the beginning of his career. He has the rare distinction of winning the Delhi orthopaedic Quiz twice in a row in the year 2004 and 2005. This is a prestigious quiz organised by the Delhi orthopaedic association. he represented delhi in the National orthopaedic quiz and won the second runner up in 2004. It was not just academics alone that he mastered at St Stephens Hospital. The years that he spent with the stalwarts made him proficient in managing complex trauma, limb reconstruction and paediatric orthopedics. These skills were further fine tuned over the next coming years till he joined Sant Parmanand under the broad wings of Dr Shekhar Agarwal.
From the year 2010 Dr Simon Thomas has been an integral part of the arthroplasty and minimal invasive trauma surgery team at Sant Parmanand Hospital. As part of this team Dr Simon Thomas has experience of more than a thousand hip knee and shoulder replacement surgeries. Good surgical acumen and confidence of the senior partner Dr Shekhar Agarawal saw him being promoted from an associate consultant to a fulltime independent consultant.
As a consultant he performs and assists in a variety of complex joint replacement surgeries from the shoulder to the ankle. As his experience at Sant Parmanand grew, he decided to spread his wings to bring the latest techniques of joint replacement from the west to india. For that he underwent intensive fellowship from the Endo Klinik Hamburg and the university hospital Homburg. As a result of this fellowship he has acquired the technique to do minimal invasive primary hip replacements and revision joint replacement surgeries all joints.
The next era in joint replacements will be revision of old components and management of problems related to existing artificial knee joints. Dr Simon Thomas takes an active interest interest in being upto date in the field of joint replacements. He is competent to do revision surgeries of the hip and knee.
He is now part of the national faculty which is invited to train young replacement surgeons for the future. Its his dream and never ending endeavour to make joint replacements in India more affordable and truly world classread less