Dr. Pankaj Walecha
Experience: 20+ years
Sarvodaya Hospital, Sector 8, Faridabad
Faridabad, India
Introduction
Dr. Pankaj Walecha is Director & Head of Robotic Knee & Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement at Sarvodaya. If someone’s knee or hip has worn down to the point where walking hurts every day, he’s usually the surgeon they end up with — and he leans heavily on robotic assistance to get there.
About Dr. Pankaj Walecha
After his MS in Orthopaedics from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Dr. Pankaj Walecha didn’t stop at one country for his specialty training. He picked up a Fellowship in Hip Arthroscopy and Joint Replacement at Wrightington Hospital in the UK (a place with a long, storied history in hip surgery), followed by a Johnson & Johnson fellowship in Germany, and then a fellowship in Seoul focused specifically on minimally invasive and computer-assisted joint replacement. That’s a lot of passport stamps for one surgical specialty, and it shows in how comfortable he is mixing robotic tools with more traditional approaches depending on what a patient actually needs.
He currently leads Sarvodaya’s Robotic Joint Replacement Centre, where he’s logged more than 25,000 successful hip and robotic knee replacements. That’s not a typo — it’s the kind of volume that comes from doing this, and only this, for two decades straight.
Qualifications
- MBBS
- MS (Orthopaedics) – Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak
- Fellowship in Hip Arthroscopy, Hip & Knee Replacement and Reconstruction – Wrightington Hospital, UK
- Fellowship in Joint Replacement Surgery – Puettlingen, Germany (Johnson & Johnson)
- Fellowship in Minimally Invasive (MIS) & Computer-Assisted Joint Replacement – Seoul, South Korea
- International AO Fellow – Homburg, Germany
Awards & Recognition
- Lead Surgeon, Robotic Joint Replacement Centre — 25,000+ successful hip and robotic knee replacements
- Founder member, Society of Knee Surgeons of India (SKI)
- Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma (JCOT)
- Honoured at both national and international levels for contributions to orthopaedic surgery
- Member: Indian Society of Hip & Knee Surgeons, Indian Orthopaedic Association, Indian Cartilage Society, Indian Arthroscopy Society
Specialities & Expertise
- Robotic knee replacement
- Minimally invasive hip replacement
- Partial knee replacement (UKR)
- Keyhole hip & knee arthroscopy for ligament (ACL, PCL) and meniscus repair
- Joint preservation surgery (HTO, DFO)
Patient Experience & Approach
A lot of Dr. Pankaj Walecha’s patients come in after years of putting off surgery, worried mostly about pain and how long recovery will keep them out of commission. He tends to lean on the robotic side of things specifically because it lets him plan the surgery down to the millimeter beforehand, which usually means less cutting and a faster bounce-back. He’s not shy about explaining why robotic assistance matters here — not as a marketing point, but because he’s watched it change outcomes over enough surgeries to trust it.
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