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2nd EFORT-Asia Symposium & APOA Conference in Taipei, November 2010
 Dr. Mody lecturing at 2nd EFORT-Asia Symposium in Taipei Dr. Bharat Mody was invited as a faculty to deliver lectures at the 2nd EFORT-Asia Symposium and also at the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA) Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2010
6th Congress of the Asia Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis(APSTH), Bali, Indonesia, October 2010
Dr. Bharat Mody was specially invited as a speaker to participate in a scientific meeting at the APSTH Congress in Bali, Indonesia, 14-16 October 2010
Orthopaedics Today Europe July-August 2010 issue
 Dr.Bharat Mody was invited to write a Guest Editorial in this prestigious Journal of Orthopaedics on the topic
"The definition of a successful total knee replacement differs for Asian and European patients”
EFORT Asia:
  Dr. Mody was invited as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the 1st EFORT (European Federation of National Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) – Asia Symposium, held in Beijing, China, in July, 2009. He was invited to the 2nd EFORT Asia Symposium Preparation meeting, held in Spain, in June 2010.
Dr. Mody Receives Invitation to Lecture at the Prestigious Imperial College of London.
The Imperial College, London is one of the classic bastions of English scholarship. It is not an everyday event that they would invite people from developing countries to teach their audience. The Orthopaedic Surgery Department of Imperial College organizes an annual event called ‘The Great Debate’ where top surgeons from across the world are invited to convey their original ideas to surgeons from different parts of United Kingdom. The meeting is considered an apex level scientific platform in the field of Total Joint Replacement Surgery.
 Dr. Mody delivering lecture on 'Obtaining high flexion after Total Knee Joint Replacement' in 'The Great Debate ' at Imperial college, London(U.K) This year the organizing committee invited Dr. Bharat S Mody, an eminent Orthopaedic Surgeon from Vadodara, Gujarat, India, to deliver a lecture on ‘Obtaining High Flexion after Total Knee Joint Replacement’.
Dr. Mody has developed a unique surgical technique which allows his patients to achieve the ability to bend their knees fully so that they can sit cross legged on the floor.
In the Western world it is experienced by patients that after Total Knee Replacement they can not bend their knees more than 90 degrees.
However, in India, patients demand that after surgery they should be able to bend their knees at least up to 135 degrees. It is this need and aspiration of his patients which motivated Dr. Mody to focus on this aspect of Total Joint Replacement Surgery and develop this unique technique which has been recognized and is appreciated at the international level.
It is for the first time that an Indian has been invited as a teaching faculty at this prestigious event.
In an interview Dr. Mody said “ It is a great pleasure for me to receive this invitation because I started my journey in this area of surgical expertise as a student in United Kingdom 15 years ago, and today the wheel has turned a full circle and I am invited back as a teacher!”.
Dr. Mody has been receiving invitations from all over the world to teach this technique to other doctors. He is the Director & Chief Joint Replacement Surgeon of ‘Welcare Hospital’, Vadodara, Gujarat.
Dr. Mody is representing India on the international executive board for the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society.
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Letter of thanks
Certificate from Imperial college
Dr. Bharat Mody Receives an Award of 1,00,000 Yen from the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Dr. Mody received an award of 1,00,000 Yen from the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Japan is the second largest economy in the world after United States of America. It has one of the most well developed health care systems in the world. Japanese Orthopaedic Association invites submission of scientific papers from across the world. The best three papers are selected for an award of 1,00,000 Japanese Yen to be presented at their annual conference. This year one thousand five hundred papers had been submitted for this award selection.
Dr. Bharat S Mody, a nationally and internationally recognized Joint Replacement Surgeon working in Baroda and having his Welcare Hospital , had also submitted a research paper titled "Achieving High Flexion after Total Knee Replacement Surgery" for this competition. This paper was one of the three selected for this prestigious award. It was for the first time that a scientific paper from India was selected for this honor.
Dr. Mody's paper was about a new technique which he has developed, which allows his patients to sit cross legged on the ground after Knee Replacement Surgery.
Japanese culture is also a ground culture like our Indian society where people fold their legs fully to perform various activities like praying, marriage, ceremony having community food events, etc.
Dr. Mody received this award in Kobe, Japan on May 23, 2007.
Fijian PM Mr Sitiveni Rabuka visits us
 Dr. Mody offering consultation to Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka Gujarat 's cosmopolitan city Vadodara, till date, was popularly known as ‘A City with Cultural Heritage'. Also, due to migration of skilled people with specialized knowledge the development of this city accelerated. Many professional fields were benefited from this including healthcare. The medical field in this city scaled new heights, and one such historical moment came, when Fiji's Prime Minister Mr. Sitiveni Rabuka visited Vadodara based “Welcare Hospital” for his knee replacement by Dr. Bharat Mody, an internationally renowned knee surgeon.
Indian medical tourism, today, has extended its wings globally which means more international patients are visiting local medical hubs, which provide value for money and high quality medical facilities to their patients. One such medical hub is Vadodara based “Welcare Hospital” which has patients visiting from nations like Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Africa and Middle-east. It is the only clinic of its kind offering complete solutions to knee problems. Centre's Chief Arthroplasty Surgeon Dr. Bharat Mody has successfully performed more than 8000 knee surgeries which itself speaks of its success.
Dr. Mody's reputation has attracted the Prime Minister of Fiji Islands Mr. Sitiveni Rabuka to come to Vadodara for getting his knees replaced. Perhaps, this is the first occasion when a person of the stature of Prime Minister has visited India for medical treatment. This will definitely give a big thrust to medical tourism in India, and Dr. Mody is to be credited for this achievement.
 Mr. & Mrs. Rabuka
during post operative rehabilitation Citing his reason for selecting India , for his surgery Rabuka said, “I had options of taking treatment from experts in Australia and USA. However, some of my friends who had undergone a similar surgery recommended me to visit Dr. Mody. Also they had a high opinion of Dr. Mody's qualitative work style and nature. So, after correspondence with Dr. Mody on internet I finally decided to come here”. Dr. Mody has a steady stream of patients flowing in from Fiji and till date more than 60 patients from Fiji have been operated at Welcare Hospital in Vadodara”.
Indo-Fijian relations have a long history since decades with many Indians migrating to Fiji, and establishing themselves in trade, commerce, and other fields. Indians had a major hold on Fijian politics. Rabuka, being an ethnic Fijian believed that Fijians should have more privilege than Indians and so he twice led a bloodless coup in 1987. And thereafter, he went on to become the country's democratically elected Prime Minister in 1992.
Rabuka was accompanied by his wife Suluveti. It is the Fiji Government which paid Rabuka's medical bills.
In response to the question to Dr. Mody on his feeling following this major achievement he replies; “Prime Minister Rabuka's visit to Vadodara will give an overall boost to city's medical tourism. People will now turn to Vadodara for other medical treatments along with knee problems. And this is just the beginning”.
The medical fraternity of Vadodara has congratulated and conveyed good wishes to Dr. Mody for his achievement.
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Arthritic patients leave their past behind to the rhythm of garba!
News article October 2006
Knee replaced senior citizens dance to the tunes of garba
 The world Arthritis Day was celebrated in the month of October. One of the leading clinics, offering complete range of solutions for all kinds of knee problems, Welcare Hospital and Arthritis Foundation, have dedicated themselves to the mission of alleviating pain of people suffering from severe arthritis.
And to send out the message to the society that arthritis is not an incurable disease in today’s age, and people can look forward to a wonderful existence with appropriate treatment for their arthritic pain, Welcare Hospital and Arthritis Foundation had organized a unique garba in the month of October’05, wherein, patients who had been victims of severe arthritis of their knees, and had undergone the surgery of total knee replacement danced to the tune of garba music enjoying the nostalgia of their youthful days and forgetting their pain and disability of just a few months back.
And once again in the month of October’06, they had organized ‘Garba 2006’ exclusively for more than 250 "Elderly Youths” who have undergone knee replacement surgery at Welcare Hospital, who are now living their life to the fullest. Patients who have undergone one or both knee replacement surgeries danced to the tunes of garba. All these patients were operated by the Centre’s Chief Arthroplasty Surgeon Dr. Bharat S Mody.
Dr. Jatin Modi, a renowned consulting dermatologist, who also had undergone knee replacement surgery at the Welcare Hospital, presided over the evening. |
