Dr Anandakumar Vellasamy | Farrer Park Hospital

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Dr. Anandakumar Vellasamy is a Swiss-fellowship-trained, board-accredited Orthopedic Specialist Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in complex foot and ankle conditions, including sports injuries and lower limb trauma. Prior to private practice, Dr. Ananda was a consultant at Singapore General Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital. His clinical practice and expertise involve minimally invasive surgical techniques addressing complex foot and ankle disorders, traumatic injuries of the lower limb, and various sports injuries. Dr. Ananda successfully performed the first lateral total ankle replacement surgery in South East Asia for end-stage ankle arthritis. The repertoire of his use of minimally invasive surgery techniques spans from calcaneal fractures to foot and ankle deformity corrections including flat feet and bunion corrections.  Dr. Ananda was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award in 2016, enabling him to pursue his fellowship training in Switzerland under world-renowned foot and ankle surgeons Professor Beat Hintermann, Professor Fabian Krause, and Professor Karl Stoffel at Cantonsspital Baselland and University Hospital of Bern Inselspital. Dr. Ananda further honed his skills by training with Dr. Alexandro Pellegrino at the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery at Etzelclinic in Zurich. Apart from clinical work, Dr. Ananda is also active in academia. He teaches medical students at NUS ’Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Medical School as well as orthopedic surgery residents and family medicine trainees. He was part of the Master of Medicine in Orthopedic Surgery Committee involved in orchestrating the training of junior orthopedic surgery residents. Dr. Ananda has also held holds membership in international groups such as the AO Foundation, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), the European Society of Sports, Traumatology, Knee Surgery, and Arthroscopy, the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society, the Singapore Orthopedic Association and the Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society of Singapore. Dr. Ananda had also been invited to speak at numerous orthopedic surgery conferences organized by AAOS, European Society of Sports, ESSKA, European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology (EFFORT), and at the ASEAN Orthopedic Association (AOA). Outside of work, Dr. Ananda spends much time with his family, including his elderly parents, and is also an avid cyclist. As a member of the Singapore Cycling Federation, he has also been involved in various fundraising events to help the elderly and needy. Dr Ananda’s specialty interests are complex foot and ankle conditions, lower limb trauma, and sports injuries.

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