Oman-based sports medicine expert Ram Sethu delivers lecture at world meet

[mcgillianaire]

An article about my dad in today's Oman Observer. Unfortunately the link will expire tomorrow so I've copied the article under the cut.



By Ashok Purohit
MUSCAT -— Renowned sports medicine expert from the Sultanate, Dr E B S Ramanathan (Ram Sethu) gave a lecture as an invited speaker on the opening day of the fifth World Congress of Sports Trauma (WCST) and sixth Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Meeting (APOSSM) in conjunction with the sixth Academic Congress of the Asian Shoulder Association (ACASA) in Hong Kong, yesterday. Dr Ram, who is working as a senior consultant in the orthopaedics department of the Khoula Hospital, is among the 85 speakers invited from all over the world and the only one from the Middle East region at the congress, which concludes today.

The congress boasts of the presence of some of the biggest names in the world of sports medicine and WCST will be held for the fifth time. It has been the tradition for the hosting country of the summer Olympics to appoint a city to host the WCST. As Hong Kong will be staging the Equestrian Games for the coming 2008 Beijing Olympics, the city has been appointed to host the fifth WCST in conjunction with the sixth APOSSM.

The WCST started its journey in 1992 at Majorca in Spain when the Games were held in Barcelona and since then has organised meetings in Orlando (1996 Atlanta Games), Gold Coast (2000 Sydney Games), Athens (2004 Athens Games). Ram, who is based in Oman for the last 20 years, spoke at the APOSSM Symposium on the topic of the Asia-Pacific Perspective in anterior crucial ligament (ACL) reconstruction related to the Gulf region with Oman in focus. The India-born doctor has to his credit more than 1,500 cases of ACL reconstruction in the Sultanate, and a sizeable number of successful cases included operating and getting back top national and international players of different Oman national teams to active playing action.

Ram has also been invited as a guest to the APOSSM Board meeting today, which would be held at the Hong Kong’s Postgraduate Education Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital. The congress is a joint event hosted by APOSSM, and co-organised by CUHK-WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association — Sports Medicine Chapter, and Hong Kong Association of Sports Medicine and Sports Science, with the support of various local and international sporting organisations.

This premier congress is complemented with a series of meetings and courses, namely Magellan Society Meeting, Traveling Fellowship Programme, sixth ACASA International Symposium on Ligaments & Tendons - Hong Kong 2008, ACASA Shoulder Arthroscopy Course and 2008 FIMS-AFSM Team Physician Advanced Course on Olympic Equestrian Games.

The scientific programme encompasses the most stimulating varieties of the state-of-the-art presentation on the latest technological advances and clinical management of sporting injuries and related sport medicine issues. This included symposia, live-surgical demonstrations, free-paper in podium and e-poster formats. An extensive exhibition and a series of industry courses are being held to introduce the new technology and application in all fields of sport medicine.

Ram, along with world experts like John Bergfeld of USA, David Anthony Parker of Australia, K M Chan of Hong Kong, Hakan Alfredson of Sweden, Roger Rackney of England, Per A Renstrom of Sweden, Christer Rolf of England, Arnold Hernandez of Brazil, Peter Myers of Australia, Ponky Firer of South Africa, Lyle Micheli of USA, Walter Frontera of Puerto Rico and Martin Schwellnus of South Africa also got an excellent platform to exchange professional experience and expertise and savour the superb hospitality of the sporting fraternity in the 2008 Olympic Year in Hong Kong.

Comments

[busybodies.livejournal.com]

phwoar, i bow down. i would have loved to have met your father. maybe even worked under him because i found orthopaedics fascinating. something i could never do given my utter lack of upper body strength, but fascinating nevertheless.

happy new year btw! (you do celebrate it today don't you?)

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

thanks. :) orthopaedics is indeed very fascinating esp because it involves a lot of bio-mechanics which my dad found most interesting - he actually wanted to become an engineer but my grandfather wanted him to become a doctor. and you're right, it does take a lot out of you. i know my dad has back problems and he doesn't like it when he's done 2-3 surgeries in a row on a thursday afternoon.

and thanks!! we do celebrate it today!! how about yourselves?