Dr. Rakesh Dhake

2016 - 2017 Senior registrar orthopaedics (spine unit) at LTMGH Sion Hospital

2017 - 2018 Spine Fellowship at NCSD, Budapest and CHLC, Lisbon

2018 - 2018 Fellowship in spine, IASA at Park Clinic, Kolkata, India AND Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, U.S.A

2023 - 2023 Advanced Spine Fellowship (Royal college of surgeons and BOA accredited) at Queens Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham University Hospitals, UK

2020 - 2021 Associate Consultant Spine Surgeon at Queens Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham University Hospitals, UK

2021 - 2022 Locum Consultant Spine Surgeon at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, UK

2022 - 2023 Consultant Spine Surgeon at Zen Spine Clinic, Mumbai

TATA trust travel grant - 2017

IASA fellowship in Park clinic, Kolkata and USA - 2018

Nottingham advanced spine fellowship - 2021

Senior clinical fellowship by Royal college of surgeons, England - 2021

Scoliosis Research Society Global outreach scholarship - 2022

Spine fellowship, National centre for spinal disorders, Budapest, Hungary - 2017

Spine fellowship, CHLC spine centre, Lisbon, Portugal. - 2018

Dr. Dhake graduated with MBBS degree from the prestigious seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, following which he completed speciality training M.S in orthopaedics from the busiest tertiary trauma centre LTMMC & LTMGH (Sion hospital) Mumbai.Pursuing his interest in the field, Dr. Dhake went to Hungary at Budapest’s National Centre for Spinal Disorders for a short term fellowship followed by another in Lisbon, Portugal at CHLC Spine Centre.Dr. Dhake was then selected for the first six month combined fellowship by IASA (Indo-American spine Alliance) at Park Clinic, Kolkata, where he worked with an Orthopaedic and Neuro spine unit. The later part of his fellowship was completed at Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle, USA, as a part of the IASA spine fellowship.He was selected for Nottingham Advanced Spinal Surgery Fellowship at Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery (CSSS), Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. CSSS cooperates with several international spine centres and is the designated regional speciality AOSpine Center for Spinal Surgery. He was soon promoted to a senior position under the mentorship of Mr. Michael Grevitt and was exposed to wide variety of paediatric spinal deformity. He was awarded Senior Clinical Fellowship by Royal college of Surgeons of England (RCS) at RCSEng Diplomates’ Ceremony in London. This fellowship is accredited by RCS and British Orthopaedic association (BOA).Having completed this fellowship, he was appointed as a Consultant Spine surgeon at the Queen’s Medical Centre and Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.