Dr. Raghuraj Kundangar

Associate Professor

Reg.No:68478

Department of Orthopaedics

Qualification: MS (ORTHO) 1) Fellowship in Spine Surgery. Tohoku Central Hospital, Yamagata. Japan 2016. 2) AO Trauma Fellowship. Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong 2017. 3) Fellowship in spine surgery. Kobe Medical Center, Kobe. Japan. 2018. 4) AO Spine Asia Pacific (AOSIN) fellowship from Dept of Neuroscience, Sakra World Hospital, Bengaluru. Dec 2019

CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    Raghuraj Kundangar teaches Undergraduate and Orthopaedic Post Graduate students.

      He is also actively involved in teaching the students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy & Rehabilitation, Yoga therapy, Operation theatre technicians, and Bio-medical Engineering.

      He is involved in outpatient and inpatient care in the Department of Orthopaedics. He has been managing the emergency care of the trauma victims with special responsibility towards SPINE injury patients.

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject Semester / Year
Orthopaedics 7th, 8th, 9th semesters (Old Regulations) and PY2, PY3-I, PY3-II (CBME)
Orthopaedics PGY1, PGY2 and PGY3

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
MS Orthopaedics Kasturba Medical College, Manipal 2008
MBBS Sri BM Patil Medical college, Bijapur 2004

Experience

Institution / Organisation Designation Role Tenure
KMC, Manipal Associate Professor 1/07/2019 - to date
KMC, Manipal Assistant Professor 08/2010 to 06/2019
KMC, Manipal Senior Resident 09/2008 to 08/2010
Sri BM Patil Medical College, Bijapur Assistant Professor 3 months

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36970222800

1) Kundangar RS, Mohanty SP, Bhat NS. Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) in AO/OTA type B displaced clavicle fractures. Musculoskelet Surg. 2018 Dec 5,


2) Kundangar R, Singh KA, Mohanty SP, Eshwari K. Clinical outcome of internal fixation of middle third clavicle fractures using locking compression plate: Comparison between open plating and MIPO. J Orthop. 2019 May 3; 16(5):414-418. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2019.04.009. eCollection 2019 Sep-Oct.

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

orthopaedic trauma and Spine

Area of Expertise

Per articular fractures, Fractures with complications

Area of Research

Trauma

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

member of AO Spine, AO Trauma, Indian orthopaedic association, Karnataka orthopaedic association, Cananra orthopaedic association.