Dr. SKS Marya Vice Chairman Max Healthcare Institute Limited Chairman & Chief Surgeon:- Orthopaedics & Institute of Joint Replacement Surgery

• President Elect Indian Orthopaedic Association 2012 • President Indian Arthroplasty Association • President Indian Society of Hip and Knee Surgeons • Chairman Knee Arthroplasty SICOT (International   Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology) • President India and SAARC : International Congress of   Joint Reconstruction • Permanent Board Member Asia Pacific Arthroplasty   Society • Formerly President North Zone Indian Orthopaedic   Association • Formerly President Delhi Orthopaedic Association • Formerly Vice President Indo German Orthopaedic   Federation

Dr. Sanjiv K S Marya has been in the field of medicine and Orthopaedic surgery for almost 30 years and is currently working with Max Healthcare Institute Limited, New Delhi as Vice chairman, Max Healthcare & Chairman & Chief Surgeon – Orthopaedics & Institute of Joint Replacement Surgery. He qualified his MBBS as the Best Graduate of Maharshi Dayanand University and Medical College Rohtak. Dr. Marya then did his MS (Masters in Orthopaedic Surgery) from PGI, Chandigarh with honors – being declared the Best Post Graduate. Subsequently he took extensive training in the field through DNB (Diplomat of National Board) and the prestigious M.Ch. degree from University of Liverpool. He was awarded the fellowship of International College of Surgeons, USA. He has recently completed a certificate course in Hospital Management for Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad.

Dr. Marya’s areas of specialization includes Joint Replacement Surgery for the joints of upper and lower limbs (Primary and Revision) and Trauma Management based on AO Principles. He has also undergone specialized training in these from several institutes abroad. The centers of major learning for him have been Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Centre, Chicago, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Charnley Hip Centre, Wrightington (England) and Kantonspittal, Chur (Switzerland), Napean Joint Replacement Centre (Australia), Motol University Hospital (Czech Republic).and Ospedale San Pietro, Rome (Italy).  Till date, he has conducted over 9000 Joint Replacements Surgeries, including over 1500 Simultaneous Knee Replacement Surgeries (Bilateral Total Knee Replacements). He was awarded the prestigious AO trauma fellowship to Switzerland.

Before joining Max Healthcare, Dr. Marya has worked as Director – Division of Joint Replacement Surgery & Senior Consultant Orthopaedics at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Royal Hampshire Country Hospital, Winchester (England); as Lecturer and Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, Senior Resident in Orthpaedics at AIIMS, Delhi and Junior Resident in Orthpaedics at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Dr. Marya has been elected Member, Board of Directors of Asia Pacific Arthroplasty society, Vice President of Indian Orthopaedic Association, President Indian Arthroplasty Association and Vice President of Indo-German Orthopaedic Federation, President Indian Hip, Knee society and President of North Zone (Indian Arthroplasty Association).He was also the Chairman Reference Centers, Fellowships & Knowledge management, AO Foundation, India. He is President of Delhi Orthopaedic Association. Recently Dr Marya has been appointed Chairman Knee Arthroplasty of SICOT (Belgium).

Dr. Marya has authored seven books viz; Surface Replacement of Hip Joint & Step by Step Knee Replacement. He was awarded ‘BOS Book Award’ for 2007-2008. He was presented the best publication ward by Delhi Orthopaedic association - 2008 Recently he has edited a book on Total Knee Replacement : Trends with Elsevier Publishers. Other books include Total Hip Replacement : Principles & Techniques and Total Hip Replacement: Spectrum. VTE in Orthopaedics by Elsevier publishers.

Dr. Marya has also written extensively on various issues in the field of orthopaedics, with 80 scientific papers published in National and International journals. This includes a thesis on Excision Arthroplasty in infected hips, published for University of Liverpool, UK and chapters on poliomyelitis in ‘Surgical Disease in Tropical Countries’, published by the National Book Trust, Shoulder Arthroplasty and Surface Replacement of hip in Text book of Orthopaedic & Trauma. He has also contributed a chapter on Joint Replacement in book on Geriatric care.

His work has also been cited in the ‘Year Book of Orthopaedics, 1988’, ‘Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics’ and ‘Rockwood and Green’s Fractures in Adults’.

Dr Marya has been extensively appreciated by peers in the country and abroad. He has delivered the Dr KS Grewal oration, Dr RC Ram Oration, UP oration (Ghaziabad) and has been invited to deliver the oration for Delhi Orthopaedic Association this year.

Dr. Marya has a passion for teaching and disseminating the knowledge he has gained in all these years and has been conducting workshops and delivering lecture at various institutes of repute. This includes 233 sessions across the world in USA, UK, Thailand, Switzerland, Dubai, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal, China, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Poland and major Indian societies.

Dr. Marya has also been invited to demonstrate live surgical techniques in China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal, Poland and Philippines bringing credit to Indian Surgeons.

In the year 2002 he was invited to deliver a lecture at the prestigious Asian Joints Symposium, held in Philippines. He was invited in June 2003 to lecture at Chicago, USA, to the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin. In June 2006 Dr. Marya was invited as a Guest Speaker at the 9th Annual Delta Course in Sydney, Australia.
He was presented the ‘Distinguished Service Award’ by Indian Medical Association, New Delhi and the ‘Dhanwantri’ award for meritorious contribution to society and medical science. Recently he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Geriatric Society of India. On 15th August 2010 Dr Marya has been awarded a Praman Patra by the Government of Punjab.

His expertise has been well recognized by national and international bodies. He is a Thesis supervisor and examiner for DNB (National Board of Examination). He has been appointed as a teacher for the Arthroplasty Section of Indian Orthopaedic Association Super Specialty Training Committee.

Dr. Marya Served the Indian Railways in Honorary capacity for five years and helped to modernize the orthopaedics services at the Northern Railways Central Hospital, New Delhi. He started state of art joint replacement and trauma management and helped conduct three national level workshops on trauma and joint replacement surgery at Railways Hospital. Currently he is Honorary Consultant (Revision Joint Surgery) to NRCH, Railway Hospital, New Delhi.

Recently he has been appointed as visiting faculty for human body mechanics course at IIT Kharagpur.
Dr. Marya has been appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor of Orthopaedics by Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (Deemed University), Chennai and Honorary Visiting Professor of Orthopaedics, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College Kolar, Karnataka. He is advisor to Himalayan Institute Hospital & Medical College, Dehradun.

Dr. Marya currently is the Director of ‘PFC Sigma Total Knee Replacement Fellowhship Programme’ and ‘World Orthpopaedics Concern Joint Replacement Fellowhship’. He trains and teaches surgeons from many parts of India and neighboring countries in latest surgical and non surgical techniques. He is also directing an international joint replacement programme. He was the Chief Investigator of a Multiple Centre Nationwide Study on Incidence on Deep Vein Thrombosis in India.

Dr. Marya has been contributing to medical literature by way of being member of editorial board of ten scientific journals; both National and International. These journals are read by a large number of junior and senior doctors in India and abroad. Recently he has been appointed as a member of editorial board of ‘Hip International’ the European Journal. In November 2008, he has launched Skeletal (Trauma Journal) as Chief Editor in Thailand.

He has performed more than 9000 joint replacements of Knees, Hips, Shoulders, Toes and Finger joints. This includes primary and revision joint replacement work. He has pioneered bilateral joint replacement of knee and hip joints i.e. replacing both joints in one sitting. Dr. Marya has initiated the unicompartmental (Half Knee) replacement and has done exclusive work on fractures in joint replacement. He has also introduced resurfacing hip replacement in this part of India and recently conducted three workshops on this new techniques including live demonstration. Recently he has launched the Proxima Hip Replacement in Asia.

Dr. Marya has demonstrated on TV circuit live Knee, Hip including surface replacement and Unicompartmental knee replacements on numerous occasions to hundreds of surgeons as a teaching aid in many National and International conferences and workshops. He is also credited with Asian Launch of Proxima Hip.

He has not only disseminated knowledge and information in medical world, Dr. Marya has written in, been quoted and cited in almost all major News papers and magazines in the country and in several other countries. He has appeared on most TV channels informing the public at large about problems of bones and joints, their prevention and cure. He has prepared teaching videos on surgical techniques which are being used by Surgeons in India and neighbouring countries.

Dr. Marya had the privilege of setting up the department of orthopaedics at University College of Medical Sciences and GTB, Hospital, Delhi as a lecturer and Head of Department from 1987-89. Subsequently, he was the first coordinator of Department of Orthopaedics at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in 1995-97.

Currently as Chairman of Orthopaedics he is helping set up departments across Max Healthcare in addition to a state of the art hi-tech institute of Joint Replacement Surgery at the tertiary care hospital at Saket.