Dr. Kosygan K P

Professional History

Senior Consultant - Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai   
2011 till date

Consultant - Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon             
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, UK
2008 – 2011

Senior Clinical Fellow - Arthroplasty
Southwest London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, UK
2007 – 2008

Lower Limb Surgey & Research Fellow 
Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, UK 
2006 – 2007

Specialist Registrar in Trauma & Orthopaedics
Yorkshire Training Programme, UK
2000 –  2006

Senior House Officer
Various National Health Services Trust Hospitals, UK
1996 – 2000
 

Teaching and Training Experience

•    Has been teaching and training medical students and orthopaedic trainees in more than 15 countries for more than 30 years

•    Supervises postgraduate students, provides Basic Specialist Training (BST) for undergraduates

•    Teaches Diplomate of National Board (DNB) trainees in India and supervises junior doctors for audit and research projects in India and the UK 

•    Gives guest lectures on a regular basis at international universities and medical associations as well as the Indian Orthopaedics and Indian Medical Associations.

Continuing Medical Education

As visiting faculty: 
•    Lecturer, Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College, Bangladesh

•    ATLS Instructor for India and UK, American College of Surgeons

•    Arthroplasty Instructor for South & Southeast Asia, Stryker Medical Devices & Equipment Manufacturing

•    Faculty, national and regional arthroplasty courses

•    Advisory Board Member, Nutraceuticals

Under the Aegis of Apollo Hospitals:

•    Damage control surgery in Orthopaedics, Chennai

•    Surgical approaches for Proximal Humerus fracture, Chennai

•    Image-guided spine intervention, Chennai

•    Elder care, Chennai.

Workshops

•    Sports associated injuries and management

•    Clinical experience with the human musculoskeletal system

•    Single radius total knee design: Biomechanics and functional outcome, Hip and Knee Replacement Symposium, Chennai

•    Daycare surgery Orthopaedics, ADS Symposium, Chennai

•    Common problems of the shoulder and knee, Community Health Symposium, Chennai

•    Cementing techniques in hip replacement, Hip Replacement Symposium, Chennai.

Lectures – International

•    Damage control surgery in orthopaedics & management of polytrauma and medical Association of Zanzibar, Tanzania, 2015

•    Adult knee and hip reconstruction, Dhaka Medical Association, Bangladesh, 2015 

•    Adult knee and hip reconstruction – complex, primary and revision joint reconstruction, University College Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, 2014

•    Management of osteoporosis, University College Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, 2014

•    “Management of common conditions in foot and ankle surgery”, University College Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, 2014

•    “Adult knee and hip reconstruction – complex, primary and revision joint reconstruction”, Medical and Orthopaedic Surgery Association,        Mauritius, 2014

•    “Adult knee and hip reconstruction”, Khartoum, Sudan, 2013

•    “Damage control surgery in orthopaedics and Management of polytrauma”, Mwanza, Tanzania, 2013

•    “Adult knee and hip reconstruction”, Melaka, Malaysia 2013

•    “Advances and current techniques in knee replacement surgery”, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2012.

•    “Rationale for cemented hip replacement”, Registrar regional, St Georges University Hospital, London, 2008.

•    “Triangular fibro-cartilage complex pathology and management”, Registrar teaching, St James University Hospital, Leeds, 2005.

•    “Management of tibial fractures”, Senior House Officer teaching, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, 2003.

•    “Intradiscal electro-therapy for chronic discogenic back pain”, Airedale General Hospital, 2002.

•    “Principles of pelvic trauma management”, Airedale Hospital, 2002.

•    “High-pressure injection injuries”, Registrar teaching, St James University Hospital, Leeds, 2001.

•    “Necrotizing fasciitis of the upper limb”, Clinical meeting, Norfolk and Norwich, 1998.

Lectures – National

•    “Common problems in foot and ankle”, IMA Chennai

•    “Complex primary and revision joint replacement surgery”, Vizhupuram

•    “Osteoporosis – an update on management”, IMA Thanjavur

•    “Foot and ankle – common problems”, IMA Thanjavur

•    “Osteoporosis”, IMA Perambalur

•    “Orthopaedic myths”, IMA Perambur.

•    “Rational of cemented hip replacement”, IOA 2012

•    “Highly cross-linked polyethylene: X3 Poly”, IOA 2012

•    “Single radius total knee design: Biomechanics and functional outcome”, IOA 2012

Presentations - International

1.    Kosygan K, Wilson D, Warnock D, “Prospective Randomized controlled trial to compare  wear rates between X3 and standard polyethylene”, Research Seminar,  London 2007
 

2.    Naraen A, Kosygan K, Faraj AA, “Box fusion of first metatarso-phalangeal joint for hallux rigidus: a simple and effective technique”, John Fitton Lecture, Leeds 2005 – Co-author
 

3.    Poster, Gholve PA, Kosygan KP, Sturdee SW, Faraj AA, “Multidisciplinary integrated care pathway for fractured neck of femur: a prospective trial with improved outcome”.
 

4.    Kosygan KP, Gholve P, Ravindran S, “8 - 18 months outcome following IDET for chronic discogenic back pain”. Airedale General Hospital,  SICOT: International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 2003.
 

5.    Kosygan K, Naraen A, Faraj AA, “Box fusion of first metatarso-phalangeal joint for hallux rigidus: a simple and effective technique”. SICOT: International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 2003.
 

6.    Gholve P, Kosygan KP, Faraj AA, Rajasekhar, “A subjective outcome analysis of tendo-achilles injury”, SICOT: International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 2003.
 

7.    Kosygan K, Naraen A, Faraj, “Box fusion of first metatarso-phalangeal joint for hallux rigidus: a simple and effective technique”, Annual Congress of Orthopaedic Foot Society, Chester, 2002.
 

8.    Poster, Naraen A, Kosygan K, Faraj, “Box fusion of first metatarso-phalangeal joint for hallux rigidus: a simple and effective technique,. Annual Congress of Orthopaedic Foot Society, Chester, 2002.  
 

9.    KP Kosygan, R Mohan, R J Newman, “Prospective randomised comparative trial of percutaneous compression plate and compression hip screw for treatment of trochanteric fractures of femur,  John Fitton Lecture, Leeds 2000.
 

10.    KP Kosygan, R Mohan, R J Newman, “Prospective randomised comparative trial of percutaneous compression plate and compression hip screw for treatment of trochanteric fractures of femur”, Combined Japanese and British Orthopaedic Association Conference, London 2000.
 

11.    KP Kosygan, R J Newman, “A new fixation device for trochanteric fractures-the percutaneous compression plate, Presentation at the Ridings Club meeting, UK 1999.