Dr. Praveen Mereddy is a well trained and qualified orthopaedic surgeon with 19 years experience. He has been practising as a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with expertise in Hip & Knee Arthroplasty and Pelvi-acetabular Trauma for over 6 years. He has worked for 10 years in the UK and gained enormous experience and confidence as a surgeon in trauma and joint replacement surgery. He is Fellowship trained in Revision Hip & Knee Arthroplasty in UK (August 2011 to August 2012). He has completed FRCS (Trauma & Orth) in May 2012. He was the first one to complete MCh in Trauma & Orthopaedics in 2010 at Wrightington Hospital and Edge Hill University.

He has completed post-graduate training (MS Orth) from one of the best institutions in India (Manipal Academy of Higher Education) and was trained further in various renowned hospitals for trauma and orthopaedics in South India. He is a highly motivated achiever with academic interest and has published his work in peer reviewed journals (8 peer-reviewed, 2 online, 7 letters to the editor) and presented in over 50 conferences and meetings (over 20 Guest lectures and over 30 paper presentations). Surgical expertise: Revision Hip and Knee replacements, Partial knee replacements, treating Pelvi-acetabular injuries and complex trauma along with complicated fractures (Infections, Non-unions and Malunions). He can communicate fluently in Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and English. He can understand Tamil and Malayalam as well.

 Qualifications 

• FRCS (Tr & Ortho): Edinburgh, UK, 2012
• M.Ch (Ortho): Wrightington, UK, 2010
• MRCS: Edinburgh, UK, 2005
• DNB (Ortho): New Delhi, India, 2002
• MS (Ortho): Manipal Academy, India, 2000
• MBBS: Manipal Academy, India, 1997

 Experience 

• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, CARE Hospitals, Hitech and Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, 2012 - 2018
• Fellowship in hip and knee arthroplasty with Tony Nargol: Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
• Registrar & Fellow in University Hospital of North Tees, UK, 2009 - 2011
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK, 2006 - 2008
• Wirral University Teaching Hospital, UK, 2005 - 2008
• SHO, (T & O, Hip & knee), University Hospital of Hartlepool, UK, 2005
• Registrar (T & O, Hip & knee), Apollo Hospitals, 2001 - 2003
• Registrar, (T & O), Manipal Hospital

 Special Interest and Expertise 

• Revision, Complex Primary Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
• Partial Knee Replacement Surgery
• Treatment of Painful/Unstable/Failed (Loosening/infection) Primary Joint Replacements
• Complex, complicated fractures and Pelvi-acetabular trauma