DR ROSHAN GUNALAN

MB, BCh, BAO (Ireland), MS Ortho (UM), CMIA (NiOSH)

Age: 35

DOB: 20-11-1976

Home Address: 20, JALAN 34/70A DESA SRI HARTAMAS,

50480 KUALA LUMPUR

PHONE: 012-3666229 • E-MAIL

DESIGNATION

Orthopaedic Specialist/Senior Lecturer

EDUCATION

-Secondary school: SM (L) Bukit Bintang, Petaling Jaya

-Pre University: Taylors College, Subang (A-levels)

-Undergraduate: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

- MB, BCh, BAO (Hons)

-Post-graduate: University Malaya

- Masters Orthopaedic Surgery

WORK EXPERIENCE

-2001-2002: Hospital Pulau Pinang

- Internship (O&G, Medicine, Surgery)

-2002-2005: Hospital Kajang

- Medical Officer (Emergency medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics)

-2005-2009: University Malaya Medical Centre

- Registrar in Orthopaedic Surgery

-2009-2010: Hospital Raja PermaisuriBainun, Ipoh

- Orthopaedic Surgeon

- Basic and advanced trauma; including intra-articular fractures

- Sports and Arthroscopy: Cases involving knee and shoulder arthroscopy including ACL reconstruction

-2010-2011: Hospital Sungai Buloh

- Orthopaedic Surgeon

- Advanced trauma: Including pelvic/acetabular fractures and basic lumbar spine fracture fixation

- Sports and arthroscopy: Knee arthroscopy, including diagnostic scopes, degenerative debridements, ACL reconstruction and revision ACL reconstruction

- Arthroplasty: Primary total knee replacements, hip hemi-arthroplasties

-2011-Present: University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur

- Senior Lecturer in PaediatricOrthopaedics and Limb Lengthening and Reconstructive Surgery

- Developmental dysplsias ; including DDH, Genu Varus, club foot

- Post traumatic mal unions: corrective osteotomies and Ilizarov

externalfixator application

- Emergency paediatric trauma: supracondylar humerus fractures, distal radius fractures and open fractures

- Congenital talipesequino-varus (CTEV) clinic; involving serial casting of club foot patients with/without tendoAchilestenotomy

- Keen interest in adolescent sports injuries and treatment

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Hospital Raja PermaisuriBainun, Ipoh

1. Medical Students from Perak Medical College / University Kuala Lumpur

- Lectures, bedside tutorials, CME presentations

- Examiner for end of posting Orthopaedic exams

2. House officers

- Clinical tutorials

- End of posting examiner (written and clinical)

Hospital Sungai Buloh

1. House officers

- Clinical viva, MCQ examination, end of posting vivas

University Malaya Medical Centre

  1. Teaching of undergraduates – tutorials, ward rounds and clinical examinations
  2. Examiner for end of posting examinations of undergraduates and registrar (trainee orthopaedic surgeons)
  3. Viva and short case/long case teachings for registrars

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

1. Thesis: Gait Analysis in Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis patients following in-situ screw fixation surgery

2. Hospital CME (Hospital Raja PermaisuriBainun): Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

3. Orthopaedic Update (Hospital Raja PermaisuriBainun): Complication of fractures

4. Hospital CME (Hospital Sungai Buloh: Osteoporosis

5. Mentoring Junior Doctors (Institute PengurusanKesihatan, Kuala Lumpur) – guest speaker

6. Basic principles of fracture management course (University Malaya) – speaker

7. Hospital University CME : Congenital TalipesEquinoVarus – UM experience

8. MBBS student seminar : Bone and Joint Infections – speaker

9. Paediatric Unit CME: Management of Paediatric Fractures – speaker

10. Upcoming presentations

- Poster presentation at Malaysian Orthopaedic Association Meeting (July 2012)

1. Alternative abduction braces for CTEV patients

2. Accreditation of nurses services in Orthopaedic ward UMMC

3. Innovative device for lower limb Ilizarov fixation (co-presenter)

- Paper presentation

1. Early outcome study of CTEV patients in UMMC with validation of new simple scoring system

2. Innovative device for hip spica application at UMMC (co-presenter)

CURRENT PROJECTS

  1. Design and research on abduction shoe braces for CTEV patients
  2. Study on cross wiring and parallel wiring of supracondylar fractures in children

AWARDS

  1. AnugerahPerkhidmatanCemerlang 2010 (Hospital Raja PermaisuriBainun, Ipoh)
  2. Advanced Trauma and Life Support certified (April 2012)