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Dr. Narender Kumar Magu
Orthopedic Surgeon
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Nationally and Inter-nationally recognized Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. Narender Kumar Magu, and a Pioneer in “Hip preservation/ Reconstruction/ Proximal Femoral Osteotomies” in the management of various hip disorders and “Pelvi-acetabular fractures”. A major part of his academic career was focused in establishing the super-specialty of “Hip Preservation” at Pt. B D Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India). The department of Orthopaedics has become the “Centre of Excellence” under his supervision; and an established center for the mentioned super-specialty.Dr. Magu was deputed to “Kathmandu” in 2015 to manage earth quake victims having “Neglected Pelvi-acetabular fractures” on the request of Nepal Orthopaedic and Indian Orthopaedic Association to Government of Haryana.The surgical technique innovated by “Magu et al” has now been included in Orthopaedic reference book “Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedic Surgery” “Fractures and Dislocations in Children” in: ST Canale, JH Beaty, vol 2. Twelfth edition published by Mosby Philadelphia: Elsevier. It is pertinent to mention “Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics” to an Orthopaedic surgeon is as important a book as “Harrison” is to a physician. He has also contributed a chapter “Osteotomies around Hip” in the latest edition of standard text book “Principles of Orthopaedics by Samuel Turec.” Besides this he has contributed more than a dozen chapters in various Orthopaedic and CME Books.
Indian Orthopaedic association has been deputing fellows to the department of Orthopaedics to associate with Dr. Magu and learn the management of “Pelvi-acetabular fractures and Hip preservation Procedures” since the last few years.
It has been Dr. Magu’s endeavor to reach every corner of the world to emphasize “Hip Preservation Surgery” with his presentations on “proximal femoral osteotomies” having a rich follow up of more than 25 years promoting biological procedures for various hip disorders; and the management of pelvi-acetabular fractures using modified KL approach as an isolated approach or as a part of combined surgical approaches.
Dr. Magu has the largest number of publications on “proximal femoral osteotomies” in English literature and presented his work regarding the “osteotomies in hip disorders” and “Pelvi-acetabular fractures” in various centers of UK, Australia, USA, Prague Czech Republic, Gothenburg Sweden, Rio Brazil, Israel, Cairo Egypt, Thailand, Colombo Sri Lanka and Dhaka Bangladesh, etc. Dr. Magu continues to conduct courses/ workshops/ cadaveric exposures/ symposium on “Proximal femoral osteotomies” and “Pelvi-acetabular fractures” in various parts of the country to train surgeons - the management of “Hip disorders” since over two decades.
Dr. Magu has educated surgeons at large by conducting and participating as a faculty or a course Director in more than 40 “Hands on workshops/ cadaveric courses/ Symposia including AO courses all over country and abroad during International/ National/ Regional/ State chapter conferences. Eminent international experts from US, UK, Australia, Germany, etc. have been part of such courses on most of the occasions. He continues to be a faculty for most of the “Continuing Orthopaedic education Programmes” organised by Indian Orthopaedic Association or its state chapters and have delivered more than 500 lectures mostly on the subject “Pelvi-acetabular fractures and Proximal femoral osteotomies”. He is the invited Guest faculty for APOA 2016 Melbourne Australia March 29th - April 4th, 2016; AO Trauma Japan Nov 2016 to speak on proximal femoral osteotomies and acetabular fractures; and have recently attended 67th Egyptian Congress as an invited guest faculty at Cairo from Dec 7th – 10th, 2015.
Dr. Magu was the convenor and moderator of Symposium titled “Osteotomies around hip in adolescents” during SICOT 2013 at Hyderabad and convenor of hands on workshop/ symposium on Acetabular and Pelvic fractures during APOA meeting 2012 New Delhi in Oct 4th – 8th, 2012 and 7th Biennial congress of SAARC countries and 34 conference of SRI Lanka Orthopaedic association Colombo 2012. He continued as peer review member for selecting abstracts/ papers for SICOT congress 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The innovated surgical technique “Modified KL approach in the management of acetabular fractures” has a place in the future management of acetabular fractures and he is looking forward to present the same during APOA meeting 2016 being organized at Melbourne Australia March-April 2016 and Proximal femoral osteotomies in Japan during AO trauma meeting Japan 2016.
Education
Academic Experience
Extra-Curricular Activities
Education
- MBBS, Pt. B D Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India)
- MASTER OF SURGERY ORTHOPAEDICS, Pt. B D Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India)
- FAMS, Fellow of National academy of Medical Sciences by National Academy of Medical Sciences
Academic Experience
Total Experience in Orthopaedics 35 years
- July, 1978 – June, 1979: House Surgeon, Orthopaedics, Medical College & Hospital, Rohtak.
- March, 1980 – April, 1982: Post graduate, Orthopaedics, Medical College & Hospital, Rohtak.
- Sept,1982 – March,1983: Medical Officer, HCMS-II.
- March, 1983 – Dec, 1983: Registrar, Department of Orthopaedics, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi.
- Dec, 1983 – April, 1986: Registrar, Department of Orthopaedics, Medical College, Rohtak.
- April, 1986 – April, 1991: Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedics, Medical College, Rohtak.
- April, 1991 – March, 1996: Reader, Department of Orthopaedics, Medical College, Rohtak.
- April, 1996 – Jan, 2006: Associate Professor, Department Of Orthopaedics, Medical College, Rohtak.
- August, 1996 – Oct, 1996: Senior Professor and Head Orthopaedics, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Agroha
- Oct, 1996 – Jan, 2006: Associate Professor (now designated as Professor), Orthopedics, Department of Orthopaedics, PGIMS, Rohtak.
- Jan, 2006: Senior Prof., Department of Orthopaedics, PGIMS- Rohtak.
- April, 2011 – Dec, 2015: Senior Prof. & Head, Department of Orthopaedics, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak.
- Oct, 2016 – May, 2017: Senior Prof of Orthopaedics, SGT Medical College Hospital & Research Institute , Gurugram, Haryana.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Editor Souvenir: ILIZAROV Course and Hands on Workshop, Panipat IOA, April, 1993.
- Editor Souvenir- IV Annual North Zone Orthopaedic Conference 1985 held at Medical College, Rohtak 1985.
- Best Play Participation as Actor in Sharad Mera Naam. In Phoenix-82 (India Cultural Festival Delhi), 1982.
- Best Play Participation as an Actor in All India Inter-medical College Cultural Festival Medifest, Ludhiana, 1981.
- President Junior Doctors Association, Medical College, Rohtak, 1980-81.
- Gold Medal for being Organizing Secretary Medifest (All India Inter-medical College, Cultural Festival held at Rohtak), 1980.
- Creative Writing Participation: Medifest, Lucknow, 1979.
- Executive, Secretary and Vice-President Cultural Club, Medical College, Rohtak -1974-78.
- Bronze Medal for Best Contributor to ROHMEDCOL (A College Literary Magazine) 1977-78.
- Silver Medal for Chief Editor ROHMEDCOL (Medical College Rohtak Magazine) 1977-78.
- Co-editor, Assistant Editor and Editor Hindi Section for ROHMEDCOL (1972-1977).
- Bronze Medal for Best Speaker, Medical College, Rohtak, 1976-77.
- Social Worker: Certificate of Appreciation, 1976.
- Member of the Central Students Association as Class Representative. 1973-74.
- Blood Donations – 5 times.
Honours and Awards of Dr. Nk Magu
- Valgus osteotomy in the management of pathological femoral neck fractures. Best paper of the session in oncology session. Indian Orthopaedic Association, Chennai, 2004.
- Co-author: “Normal Lumbar Spinal Canal Measurements on Computed Tomography”. S.R. Joglekar Gold Medal Award December, 1995
- Second Best Paper award in Poster Exhibition: Condylar blade plating in trochanteric fractures with osteoporosis: National Conference on Trauma. Rohtak, Sept 16-18, 1994.
- “Valgisation osteotomy in sub-capital femoral neck fractures”. IV Koval International Orthopaedic Conference on Arthroscopy and Joint Replacement Surgery, ORTHOCON 1993.
- S.R. Joglekar Gold medal award: “Electromyography in lumbar radiculopathy”. By Association of Surgeons of India and Editorial Board Indian Journal of Surgery. Dec 1993.
- Operative Treatment of Acetabular Fractures: IV Kovai Inter-National Orthopaedic Conference on Arthroscopy and Joint Replacement Surgery, ORTHOCON, 1993.
- Conferred upon “FAMS” Fellow of National academy of Medical Sciences by National Academy of Medical Sciences, Oct 2014.
- Excellent Medical Teacher Award 2014 by National board of medical examination.
- Awarded Indian Orthopaedic Society U.K. Senior Fellowship by Indian Orthopaedic Association; September 12 -25, 2010 to visit UK and present scientific work in various centers.
- Awarded A.O Fellowship (Switzerland and Germany) from April 2 to June 23, 1989.
- Visiting Professor in Alfred Hospital Melbourne, Australia Oct 3-16, 2009.
- Recognized International invited faculty to deliver lectures on “Pelvi-acetabular fractures and proximal femoral osteotomies” by SICOT 2013 Hyderabad for convening a symposium on osteotomies around Hip in adolescents, APOA 2012 New Delhi (Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association), “IOSUK” Association of Indian Orthopaedic surgeons of UK, Egyptian Orthopaedic association Cairo, and Orthopaedic association of Bangladesh, 7th Biennial Orthopaedic association of SAARC countries and 34th annual conference of Sri Lankan Orthopaedic association of Sri Lanka, 8th Biennial Orthopaedic association of SAARC countries Agra and AO Trauma Japan.
- Referee to Judge prestigious National award “Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award” for the year 2015.
- Wrote an editorial and bring out an issue of “International Journal of Orthopaedics” (Hong Kong) by inviting 10 eminent authors from all over world.
- Convener and Moderator of scientific sessions on “Pelvi-acetabular fractures” and “Osteotomies around Hip in Adolescent hip disorders” in International meetings of APOA New Delhi(2012), SICOT International Hyderabad (2013), (Egypt Cairo Dec, 2015, Asia Pacific association of Orthopaedic surgeon Melbourne Australia (March-April 2016) and AO Trauma Japan Nov, 2016
- Invited National AO faculty since 1994 for various AO courses, AO Alumni meetings, and to conduct workshops on Osteotomies and Pelvi-acetabular fractures.
- Co-chairman osteotomy course AO trauma Kolkata 2014.
- Invited National faculty for “Continuing Orthopaedic progamme” since 1996 Indian Orthopaedic Association for most of courses till IOACON-2015 Jaipur.
- Invited faculty in various Instructional courses of Indian Orthopaedic Association since 1994.
- Presented Scientific lectures/ papers on Pelvi-acetabular fractures and Proximal femoral osteotomies in “Shock trauma center Baltimore USA”, Alfred Hospital Melbourne Australia” (as a visiting Prof), Association of Indian Orthopaedic Surgeons UK “IOASUK” Glasgow, Birmingham, Hurdusfiled UK and Wrightington Hospital Liverpool ( as a visiting fellow), Sweden, Thailand, Check republic, UK, Israel, Shock trauma center Baltimore USA.
- Reviewer and member editorial board of more than dozen International; National societies and Journals including Clinical Orthopaedic and related research a Publication of Journal of Bone and Joint Surgeons.
- Fellows of Indian Orthopaedic association and state Orthopaedic Surgeons visit my center at PGIMS Rohtak to learn acetabular surgery and Hip reconstruction especially Proximal femoral osteotomies.
- Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations of various National universities which include Delhi University, AIIMS New Delhi, PGI Chandigarh, Rajasthan University Jaipur, Gujrat University Ahmedabad, Punjab University Chandigarh, Maharashtra University Nasik, Baba Farid University Faridkot, National Board of Examination new Delhi, Maharashi Dayanand University Haryana, Pt B D University of health Sciences Rohtak, and numerous centers of DNB all over India as Internal and external examiners.
- Conducting postgraduate courses since 2012 yearly based for students studying in various centers in India in department of Orthopaedics PGIMS Rohtak.
- Conducted more than 40 hands on workshops/ cadaveric courses/ symposia and Master hip courses as a course Director or as a part of group faculty all over India and in Bangla Desh on Pelvi-acetabular fractures and Hip reconstruction.
- Delivered nearly 500 Lectures/ papers in national/ regional CME’s and conferences in India and abroad.
- Assessor/ Inspector Medical Council of India New Delhi.
- Assessor/ Inspector National Board of Examination New Delhi.
- Coordinator National Board of Examination New Delhi
- Secretary General OASAC (Orthopaedic association of SAARC Countries)
- President APASI (Association of Pelvi-acetabular surgeons of India)
- Founder member and secretary Haryana Chapter IOA (1992-1998).
- President Haryana Chapter IOA (1998-2009).
- Executive member Indian Orthopaedics Association (1996-99).
- Member Centre state relationship committee Indian Orthopaedic association (1996-99)
- Executive member Indian Orthopaedics Association (2005-2008)
- Organized more than dozen conferences including of SAARC countries (Agra-2014) and New Delhi; March-2000.
- Member post graduate board of studies. University of health sciences.
- Member Academic council university of Health sciences Rohtak.