Dr. Pramod K Sudarshan
- Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences Ltd (Aster Mims), Calicut
About Doctor 
Dr. Pramod Sudarshan is a Consultant Spine Surgeon at Aster MIMS Calicut. He has received extensive training exclusively in spine surgery with a long-term ASSI clinical spine fellowship and international fellowships focusing on spinal deformities (USA and Denmark) and minimally invasive spine surgery (London, UK). He has been on a visiting surgeon program to FOCOS hospital, Ghana, Africa for management of complex kyphosis and scoliosis deformities.
Dr. Pramod brings with him a rich experience of more than 10 years. To his credit, he has many awards like a Gold medal in MS Orthopedics, Prof. KT Dholakia gold medal at IOACON 2016 and he is the only Indian to receive best paper awards in consecutive years (2016, 2017) at ISASS spine conferences held in the USA. He is an author of many chapters in textbooks based on spine surgery.
Dr. Pramod worked at esteemed hospitals in Chennai and Bangalore before joining the best orthopaedic hospital in Calicut - Aster MIMS. As part of social work, he was also performing free complex kyphoscoliosis surgeries.
The use of new technologies is his passion, and the first case of 3D printed guides in complex spine surgery in Kerala was performed by him recently. His goal is to establish Aster MIMS as a one-stop solution for all spine problems for patients from North Kerala.
Awards
2022 VTI Gold medal for the best paper – ASSICON 2022 Patna (Association of Spine surgeons of India conference)
2021 Best Paper in English Session – 94th Annual Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) meeting, Tokyo, Japan
2020 EUROSPINE Observership grant – Awarded to visit London Bridge Hospital, London, UK for MIS Observership, Feb 2020
2019 Nuvasive-SICOT Foundation Scholarship to attend the SICOT Congress at Muscat, Oman in Dec 2019
2018 Outstanding English Paper Award – Japanese Scoliosis society 52nd Annual meeting, Tokyo, Japan
2017 “ISASS Leon Wiltse award” for the best overall paper of ISASS 2017, Boca raton, Florida, USA
2016 “Dr K T Dholakia Gold medal” for Best overall paper of the conference – 60th annual Indian Orthopedic association conference (IOACON) Kochi, India
2016 “The Charles Ray award” for BEST CLINICAL PAPER – ISASS 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA 2014 Prof.A.S.Annamalai Gold medal Madurai, For Best Outgoing student (M.S.Ortho) from Madurai medical college, 2014
2014 TNOA PG KMC Gold Medal, Winner of the prestigious annual Postgraduate Quiz at TNOACON, 2014, Chennai
2012 BEST PAPER AWARDS - OASISCON 2012, Bengaluru, India (Orthopedic Association of South Indian States Conference) and POACON 2012, Pondicherry, India (Pondicherry Orthopedic Association Conference)
