Dr. (Prof.) Raju Vaishya
Experience: Over 42 years
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi (Also consults at Healing Touch Clinic, Sukhdev Vihar)
New Delhi, India
Introduction
Dr. (Prof.) Raju Vaishya is a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. He handles everything from regenerating damaged cartilage in young athletes to performing bilateral knee replacements on patients in their eighties and nineties.
About Dr. (Prof.) Raju Vaishya
Dr. (Prof.) Raju Vaishya has forty-two years of experience in orthopaedics. He actually introduced Patient Specific Instrumentation (PSI) for knee replacements in India. That means instead of using a standard off-the-shelf implant, the new joint is 3D-mapped to the patient’s exact bone structure before the surgery even starts. Most older patients coming to him have delayed surgery for a decade and just want to walk to the park without agonizing pain.
Got his MS from Gwalior, then spent years training globally. He uses advanced techniques like Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation to actually grow and replace lost cartilage. He is also a massive figure in medical research, officially ranking in Stanford University’s top 2% of scientists globally with over 900 published papers. For his lifelong surgical work, he was awarded the highly prestigious Dr. B. C. Roy Award.
Qualifications
- MBBS & MS (Orthopaedics) — Gajara Raja Medical College, Gwalior.
- MCh (Orthopaedic Surgery) — University of Liverpool, UK.
- FRCS — Royal College of Surgeons of England.
- FACS — American College of Surgeons, USA.
- AO Fellowship (Trauma) — Germany and Switzerland.
- Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine Training — Rush University, Chicago.
Awards & Recognition
- Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals since 1996.
- Dr. B. C. Roy Award (Highest medical honor in India).
- Ranked in Top 2% of Scientists Globally by Stanford University.
- Over 900 peer-reviewed research publications.
- Limca Book of Records for bilateral knee replacements on patients in their 90s.
- Editor-in-Chief for multiple international orthopaedic journals.
Specialities & Expertise
- Patient-specific knee and hip replacement
- Shoulder joint replacement
- Arthroscopic ACL and PCL reconstruction
- Cartilage regeneration therapies
- Minimally invasive joint replacement
- Geriatric (elderly) high-risk orthopaedics
Patient Experience & Approach
Families often walk in terrified that an 85-year-old simply can’t handle massive joint surgery. Patients mention that Dr. (Prof.) Raju Vaishya has a track record that completely changes that conversation. He points to his Limca records of successfully operating on 90-year-olds and explains exactly how minimally invasive tools make it safe. For younger athletes with ruined knees, he doesn’t rush to replace the joint. He uses clinic models to show how he can actually regenerate their own cartilage, laying out a strict, month-by-month rehab plan to get them playing again.