Dr Ram Chidambaram is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with over 28 years of experience. He has developed an exclusive specialist practice in sports medicine and injuries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. His mission is to help patients achieve their pre-injury status with near perfect results.
He completed D Ortho, MS Ortho and DNB Ortho from India. He went to the UK and completed FRCS (Surgery) and FRCS (Tr & Orth) and worked as consultant shoulder and upper limb surgeon for 10 years. He did specialist fellowship in shoulder (UK, USA & France), elbow (Mayo clinic of USA) and wrist (Yale, USA, Hong Kong & Japan)
In 2011, Dr Ram Chidambaram left behind a flourishing practice in the NHS and relocated to Chennai. He set up his specialist practice in upper limb surgery and within a short span of time, managed to establish this niche as an exclusive orthopaedic super-specialty. In the past 13 years, he has performed over 4500 keyhole surgeries, 1100 joint replacements and 3000 trauma surgeries affecting the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Dr Ram Chidambaram is an elected member of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS). He was elected President of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of India in 2017. He was awarded the presidential gold medal from Dr Peter Brownson (President, BESS), for services rendered to upper limb surgery and for his role in making the field more relevant in mainstream Indian orthopaedics.