Dr. Jai Thilak

About Me

Dr. Jai Thilak Kailathuvalapil did his MBBS in 1988, Diploma in Orthopaedics in 1991. He completed his Masters in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1994. He also did his MCh Orthopaedic Surgery from University of Dundee, UK in 1999. His clinical fellowship training was in Arthroscopy and joint replacement surgery at National University Hospital (ISAKOS approved), Singapore in 2000. The APOA (Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association) Fellowship with Dr. John Bartlett at Melbourne, Australia was in 2004. Recently, he was certified for Robotic Arm-assisted Joint Replacement Surgery by the MAKO training programme in the US. He was honored with FRCS membership from the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow.
In 2000, he joined Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India, as Senior Specialist. He had the privilege for being in the team, which started the orthopaedic department & the teaching unit. The main focus of the practice was in joint replacement surgery of the knee and hip and arthroscopic surgery of the knee & shoulder. Since the last 20 years in this hospital, he has been privileged to do more that 4000 joint replacement surgeries and 5000 arthroscopic surgery mainly of the knee, hip & shoulder. From 2017, he has pioneered the MAKO Robotic Arm-assisted Joint Replacement Surgery which is the first of its kind in India.

Current Academic and Clinical Appointment

• Clinical Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India.
• Senior Consultant in Orthopaedics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India.
• Programme Director for Arthroplasty (Robotic Joint Surgery) & Arthroscopy Fellowship, Amrita Hospital, Kochi, India.

Professional Society Membership

• Life Member of the Cochin Orthopaedic Society since 1995
• Kerala Orthopaedic Association Life Member
• Indian Orthopaedic Association Life Member
• Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of India Associate Life Member
• Life Member Indian Arthroscopic Society
• Indian Medical Association Life Member
• Fellow of the Academy of General Education, Manipal since 1989.
• Member of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association since 2002.
• ISAKOS Associate Membership since 2006
• Member of the ISAKOS Committee from 2007 to 2014
• International Member of the American Academy of Hip & Knee Surgeons since 2017

Awards

• Best Paper Award for the presentation on “A Prospective Study of Popliteal Cyst decompression by Arthroscopic removal of the capsular valve mechanism” during the 9th Annual Conference of the Indian Arthroscopic Society at Chennai on 24th to 27th Sept 2010.
• Best Paper Award from the Ranawat Orthopaedic Foundation for the presentation of “Analysis of the Valgus Angle following Navigation TKR” at Cochin on 14th Jan 2011.

Awards as the guide to Postgraduate students

• Best Poster award for Articular Aspergillosis of Hip and Knee joint in KOACON 2014. Dr Mukesh, Prof. Jai Thilak
• Best Postgraduate Oral paper on Morphometric analysis of the distal femur in TKR patients at the 2014 OASIS conference at Palakkad. Dr Melvin, Dr Jai Thilak

Editorial Activities

• Editorial board Journal of Kerala Orthopaedic Association 2005 to 2010
• Reviewer for Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports
• Reviewer for The Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery (ABJS)
• Academic editor of Asian Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Research Activities

The aim in Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences is to undertake clinical & basic research at a level of national excellence since we have a large volume of patients with joint problems and has to undertake more than 600 major surgeries of joint replacement surgery & arthroscopy annually. Academics involve teaching undergraduates and postgraduate students. He is the director of the Fellowship programme in Adult Reconstruction in Amrita Hospital and was instrumental in getting the institute ISAKOS approved.
He has researched the morphometric measurements of the distal end of the femur of our patients undergoing total knee replacement for the betterment of the future generation of knee implants, currently studying the rotational axis of the distal femur and proximal tibia in knee replacement patients.
A cadaveric study was done on the anterolateral ligament of the knee which is a controversial topic among the sports medicine surgeons. Also did a study on the pattern of infective pathogens of the prosthetic joint infections in a tertiary care institute. He is also keenly researching & collecting the data of the PROMs (Patient Reported Outcome Measures) of the joint replacement surgeries to better understand the patient’s perspective of the surgery.
Privileged to start the first Mako Robotic Arm assisted surgery for joint replacement in the institute in July 2017. Amrita is the first Institute in India to get the MAKO Robot and we have initiated a study of evaluating the Robotic vs Jig-based knee arthroplasty patients. The joint replacement programme in Amrita was audited and modified from an average inpatient stay of 7 days to the current 3 days after the report. The commonest bacteria involved in prosthetic joint infection was audited and given an insight to the surgeon and the infectious disease specialist for better treatment protocols.

Conferences / Workshops Organized

• Member of the Organizing Committee of Indian Orthopaedic Association Conference at Kochi, Kerala, India in 1997.
• Organized the Amrita Arthroscopy Conference on 30,31Aug 2003 at AIMS, Kochi, Kerala. The Faculty included Peter Campbell (Perth), John O’Donnell (Melbourne) from Australia & P Thiagarajan from Singapore.
• Organized the THR Workshop for OASIS Conference in 2004 at AIMS.
• Organizing Chairman of the 1st Amrita Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty Course 2008.
• Organized the Arthroplasty Pre-Conference Workshop of OASIS 2009 at Amrita & did a live navigated TKA surgery 2009.
• Course chairman for the Basic Arthroplasty workshop by the CAPE Kochi 2010.
• Organized the live surgery for the JRSOA conference of Zimmer Institute at Kochi 2015.
• Organizing chairman for the Amrita Arthroscopy Cadaver Course on 2016.
• Member of the organizing committee of Indian Orthopaedic Association Conference, Kochi, Kerala, India 2016.
• Organized the 2nd Amrita Arthroscopy Cadaver Course on Dec 2017.

Invited Speaker / Faculty

• He has been an invited speaker to many national and international conferences.

International Training / Conferences

• Attended the IT for Surgeons course at orthopaedic skills unit, Dundee, UK.
• Attended the Delta Group 6th Annual Course on Joint Replacement & Reconstructive Surgery in Nov 2002 at Sydney, Australia.
• Did an Observership on Arthroscopic Surgery of Hip & Shoulder with Dr. John O’Donnell at Melbourne, Australia in Nov 2002.
• Invited to a lecture at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan as a part of ICOE-2151 Observership in 2003.
• ICOE-1122 Observership at Sports Medicine Division of Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan in Nov, 2003.
• Scrubbed in with Mr. Peter Campbell for Arthroscopic Surgery of the Shoulder at Western Orthopaedic Clinic, Perth, Australia in June 2004.
• Scrubbed in with Dr. Luca Marega for Surface Replacement & Revision Hip Replacement at Casi di Cura S ANNA, Brescia, Italy in September 2004.
• Participated in the International Learning Centre for Articular Surface Replacement Workshop at Amsterdam in September 2004.
• Attended the 4th Thai Insall Club meeting in July 2005 at Thailand.
• Participated in the Masters course in Shoulder Arthroscopy with hands on cadaver workshop in March ‘06 at Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
• Participated in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting 2006, Chicago on March, 2006.
• Attended the American Asso of Hip & Knee Surgeons Specialty day meeting on March, 2006 in Chicago, IL.
• Participated in the MIS Hip & Knee Educational Program at RUSH University Medical Center, Chicago on March 2006.
• Observership with Mr. Richard Wilk at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Massachusetts, USA March 2006.
• Attended the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement, Las Vegas, USA May 2007.
• Attended the ISAKOS Masters Course “Advances in Knee Arthroplasty & The Bi annual congress at Florence, Italy in May 2007.
• Attended the Advanced Hip & Knee (Navigation) Course of the BrainLab Academy on November 2007 at Munich, Germany.
• Participated in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco on March 2008.
• Participated in the Arthroscopy Association of North America 2008 Specialty day Program, San Francisco on March, 2008.
• Attended the Delta Group 11th Annual Course on Joint Replacement & Reconstructive Surgery in May 2008 at Sydney, Australia.
• Participated in the South African Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Conference & Cadaver Workshop on Biological Healing under the associated guidance of the Steadman-Hawkins group (Vail, Colorado, USA) in Sept 2008.
• Participated in Arthrex Knee & Shoulder Arthroscopy Course & Cadaver workshop at the Arthrex-Chula Training Center, Thailand in Sep 2008.
• Participated in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas in February 2009.
• Attended the Biennial ISAKOS congress 2009 in April at Osaka, Japan.
• Attended the Zimmer Institute LCCK training at Chulalongkorn University, August 2009 at Bangkok, Thailand.
• Attended the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans in March 2010.
• Attended the International sports medicine & Knee Arthroplasty meeting 2010 “The Knee Unplugged” in Berlin, Germany from October 2010.
• Attended the ISAKOS meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from May 2011.
• Served as Fellow in Adult Reconstructive Knee Surgery from July, 2011 with Dr Alfred J Tria, Jr, at New Jersey, USA.
• Attended the Indian Surgeon Training Programme by BIOMET at Dallas, Warsaw & Columbus, USA from Aug 2011.
• Fellowship Training in Arthroscopy & Arthroplasty with Prof. Dr. Jorg Jerosch at Johanna Etienne Hospital, Neuss, Germany from November 2011.
• Attended the Arthro London 2012 International Symposium on 2012, September in London, UK.
• Attended the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA in December 2012.
• Attended the ISAKOS meeting in Toronto, Canada from May 2013.
• Attended the live CME on Cemented vs Uncemented TKR on July 2013 conducted by the Foundation for Orthopaedic Research & Education.
• Attended the Revision Arthroplasty course by DePuy Synthes on Sept 2013 at Brisbane, Australia.
• Attended the Global Insights: The future of Hip & Knee Surgery conference by Smith & Nephew in Copenhagen, Denmark on Nov 2013.
• Attended the ESSKA Congress in Amsterdam from May 2014.
• Attended the ArthroParis Congress in Paris on June 2014.
• Attended the CCJR conference in Orlando, Florida USA on Dec 2014.
• Attended the ISAKOS meeting in Lyon, France held in 2015.
• Participated in the Cadaveric arthroscopic workshop & Observed the shoulder surgery with Dr Joe De Beer on Aug 2016 at Cape town, South Africa.
• Attended the Linkademy Asean Knee Symposium in Hamburg, Germany July 2017.
• Visited Helios EndoKlinik in Hamburg and could scrub in with Dr Zaher for one stage infected revision Arthroplasty cases on August, 2017.
• Participated in the Instructional course on Oxford Uni Knee in Oxford, UK in September 2017.
• Attended the Annual American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons at Dallas, USA in 2017.
• Participated in the MAKO Surgery Observation Program with Prof Ross Crawford & Dr Bill Donnelly at Holy Spirits Northside Hospital, Brisbane, Australia in Jan, 2018.
• Attented the CCJR conference in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on May, 2019.
• Attended the 8th Annecy Live Surgery International Shoulder advanced course on June, 2019 in Annecy, France.
• Attended the 6th international conference, Bonn, Germany. Advanced Revision Arthroplasty: In search of Excellence. November, 2019.

Papers Presented

• Paper on Fracture forearm in a Haemophiliac at the XIV KOA Conference 1996.
• Paper on Minimally Invasive Lumbar Disc surgery at the XV KOA Conference1997.
• Paper on Epidemiological study of Tuberculosis Spine 45 cases at the XVI KOA Conference 1998.
• Paper on Meniscal tears associated with Anterior cruciate ligament tears at 22nd Singapore Orthopaedic Association meeting 1999.
• Paper on Meniscal lesions in ACL deficient Knee at the XIX KOA conference 2000.
• Paper on Short Term evaluation of TKR & Radiofrequency energy in Arthroscopy at 21st KOA conference 2002.
• Paper on Hip Arthroscopy at the 22nd KOA conference 2003.
• Paper on Joint Replacement Arthroplasty & Dexa analysis in THR at Gifu University Medical School, Japan on 8th November 2003.
• Paper on Double bundle PCL Recon at 23rd KOA conference 2004.
• Paper on Arthroscopic Meniscal repair at 3rd OASIS conference 2004.
• Paper on Periprosthetic Fracture in TKA at the 7th APAS meeting in Goa, 2005.
• Paper on Tunnel Widening in ACL Recon at ISAKOS meeting at Florence, Italy May 2007.
• Paper on Double Bundle ACL Recon at KOA conf at Kollam, Jan 2008.
• Presented a Poster on “Prospective Study of the Popliteal Cyst Decompression by Arthroscopic Removal of the Capsular Valve Mechanism” at the ISAKOS 2009 Congress at Osaka, Japan.
• Presented a Paper on MPFL Recon in Patellar Instability at IAS 2009 annual meeting at Ahmedabad on Oct 1st 2009.
• Presented a paper on “Analysis of Valgus Angle following Navigated TKR” in the International Society of Technology in Arthroplasty Annual conference at Dubai on October 2010.
• Presented a Poster on Component alignment and functional outcome in cas vs jig based TKR surgery in the EFFORT Congress at Berlin in May 2012.
• Presented a Paper on Critical Analysis of the medial portal Anatomic single bundle ACL Reconstruction in the Congress of Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine meet at Jaipur in November 2012.
• Presented a Poster on How stable is TKR? A navigational assessment of midflexion instability in coronal plane at the Orthopaedics Today Hawaii 2016
• Presented a Paper on “Study of the intraoperative measurements of the distal femur with respect to the femoral components in Indian patients during TKA” at the 2016 APOA congress at Melbourne, Australia in April 2016.
• Poster on Prospective study of Ramp lesions associated with ACL rupture at the ISAKOS, Shanghai, China in June 2017.
• Paper on Accuracy of Tibial component positioning in Robotic Arm assisted vs Conventional UKR. A comparative Radiographic study at the Sicot 40th Orthopaedic world congress, Muscat, Oman in December 2019.
• Paper on Accuracy of Implant positioning in Robotic Arm assisted versus Jig based TKR in the 1st Qatar Arthroplasty Conference at Doha, Qatar 7to 9th Feb 2020.

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