- Specialty: Spine surgery, orthopaedics, and scoliosis surgery
- Designation: Ortho Spine Surgery Head
- Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon.
About the doctor
- The head of the ortho-spine surgery department at Artemis Hospital in Gurgaon, India, is Dr. Hitesh Garg. He has extensive training in spine surgery and has worked at prestigious institutions across the world, including Yale University and the Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He received his undergraduate degree from the premier college in India, AIIMS, New Delhi, and his postgraduate degree from the famed KEM Hospital in Mumbai. He turned down an invitation to become a professor in the United States in favor of returning to India to start an advanced spine institute renowned worldwide. He has a keen interest in academia, has published both domestically and abroad, and has contributed chapters to recognized publications on spine surgery.
To date, he has performed more than 5000 spine surgeries, including more than 2500 spinal fusions (TLIF, ACDF, etc.), 1000 deformity correction surgeries (Scoliosis and kyphosis), 300 lumbar and cervical artificial disc replacements, 500 fracture treatments, and 500 other complicated procedures like spinal tumor, congenital defects, and spino-pelvic fixations.
His excellent success record of over 98 percent is made possible by the utilization of cutting edge technologies during surgery, such as Neuromonitoring, O-arm, Navigation, modular operating rooms, and microscopes.
In addition to patients from India, Dr. Hitesh Garg has performed surgery on patients from more than 50 nations, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uganda, Turkmenistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Some of the most well-known national and worldwide figures, including army officers, ministers, celebrities, athletes competing at the national and international levels, doctors, and businessmen of renown from both countries, are among his clients. His areas of expertise include cranio-vertebral and cervical spine surgeries, minimally invasive spine surgeries, motion-preserving spine surgeries, and deformity repair techniques for scoliosis and kyphosis.
Dr. Garg is a firm believer in addressing each patient’s unique needs through thorough diagnosis and care that aims to enable them to lead active, pain-free lives. In order to give patients the finest care possible, he mixes cutting edge methodologies with tried-and-true conventional approaches.
Qualification
- Joint Replacement Fellowship (AIIMS), MBBS (AIIMS), MS (Ortho) (KEM, Mumbai), Fellowship in Paediatric Spine (Shriners Hospitals for Children, USA), Fellowship in Spine Surgery (Yale University, USA), and Post Graduate Fellowship (AIIMS)
Membership
- Spine AO.
- DS Society for the Spine.
- Association of Indian Spine Surgeons.
- Association of Indian Physicians.
- Orthopaedic Society of Gurgaon.
- Association for Indian Orthopedics.
Awards & Honors
- The Honourable Speaker of India, Shri Om Birla, presented the award, “Atal Swasthya Bhushan Samman 2019.”
- Excellence Award from Healthcare Today for “Best Spine Surgeon of the Year, 2018”
- For the year 2017, the “Best Spine Surgeon in Delhi NCR” received a Merit Award and a Market Research Healthcare Award.
- 2015’s “Best Spine Surgeon in Gurgaon” received the “Global Healthcare Excellence Award” during primetime.
- Dr. Pandurangi Award for “Best Orthopaedic Resident” at KEM Hospital and Seth G S Medical College, Mumbai, for the academic year 2006–07.
- Selected as one of the top 12 finalists for the Hewlett Packard All Asia Young Inventor Award in December 2000 out of 298 applicants for their work on a homemade spacer for asthmatic patients. In “Far Eastern Economic Review” (December 2000), the work was noted.
- Dr. Hira Lal Sharma Memorial Gold Medal (1996–1977) for coming in top place in the state of Punjab’s Punjab School Education Board (Std XII).
- the honor of signing the college Roll of Honour in 1996–1997
- 5th place in the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Exam
- Punjab School Education Board National Level Science Talent Search Examination Merit Certificate and Silver Medal Scholarship
Clinical Focus
- Spinal deformities, spinal trauma, spinal infections, osteoporosis, and spinal tumors are degenerative conditions of the spine.
Procedure
- Fusions of the spine (PLIF, PLF, TLIF, ALIF, DLIF, Axial-LIF)
- Correction of spinal deformities (Scoliosis and Kyphosis)
- Replacement of artificial discs (lumbar and cervical)
- Spine surgery with little to no incision
- the cervical spine
- C1-C2 and occipito-cervical operations
- spinal cancer
- Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
- Motion-preserving procedures for scoliosis and degenerative spine disease
- Growing scoliosis rod
- spinal trauma operations
- Epidural blocks, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulators, baclofen and morphine pumps, and percutaneous discectomy are all pain management techniques.
